15 Feb. 1815

Didacologia

Ch. Art & Science Division

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For the designation of the general term science, as Applied /considered as applying/ to this or that particular portion of the field of science by some persons, and on some occasions, the termination logy, and by others the termination gnosy, is preferred. On other occasions, or by some persons, to give compactness to the appellation, both are discarded, and the termination cs, as designative of an adjective, of which the substantive is subintellected, is preferred. These terminations are all taken from the Greek, the language without which scarcely any new names could, by our barbarism-sprung language, be framed; and consequently scarcely any new views of things taken or expressed, nor, in so far as former ones are either incorrect or incomplete, any true {and adequate} ones be so much as formed.

Somatology, somatognosy, or somatics; psychology, psychognosy, or psychics - to one or other of these denominations will every branch of science, which has for its subject the field of (to us) perceptible existence, the class, to us, of perceptible beings, be found referable.

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