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 22 THOMAS WHITTAKEE Comte's Moral Science is not philosophical ethics, but is the science of the individual human mind viewed as posterior to life in society. Thus it is really a higher Psychology ; namely, that of man as possessing the attributes which distinguish him from brutes. When from the correction of the list we proceed to its completion, we find that before Mathematics must come Logic (Formal and Material) viewed as a philosophical OF MATHEMAT/CS P/ator>/sts dnd /(ant) rfaton/c D/ALECT/C., separated, into science. After the higher branch of Psychology comes Metaphysics (as Theory of Knowledge and as Ontology). We are now presented with the result that, to figure the amended classification, Comte's linear series, provisionally conceived as in a straight line, must be bent into a circle. For a series beginning with Formal Logic and ending with Metaphysics is subjective at both extremes. . Moreover, in the speculative though not in the didactic order, Metaphysics as Theory of Knowledge precedes Logic. This is represented