Chapter XIV. Of the Limits to the Explanation of Laws of Nature; and of Hypotheses.

§ 1. Can all the sequences in nature be resolvable into one law? 3 2. Ultimate laws cannot be less numerous than the distinguishable feelings of our nature 4 3. In what sense ultimate facts can be explained 7 4. The proper use of scientific hypotheses 8 5. Their indispensableness 16 6. Legitimate, how distinguished from illegitimate hypotheses 18 7. Some inquiries apparently hypothetical are really inductive 25

§ 1. How a progressive effect results from the simple continuance of the cause 29 2. —and from the progressiveness of the cause 33 3. Derivative laws generated from a single ultimate law 36