Thus is confirmed the autonomy and the peculiar nature of the empirical or natural sciences, indestructible by philosophy as philosophy is indestructible by them.
[1] Nov. Org. I. §§ 81, 116; and II. in fine.
[2] See The Philosophy of the Practical, pt. i. sect. i.
[3] Letter to d'Epinay, October 12, 1776.
[VI]
MATHEMATICS AND THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE OF NATURE
The idea of a mathematical science of nature.