At the end of his survey he comes to the conclusion that science by itself is not enough: there must be a force and discipline outside the sciences to coördinate them and point them to a goal. “There is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress, which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.”67 What science needs is philosophy—the analysis of scientific method, and the ;coördination of scientific purposes and results; without this, any science must be superficial.
