Chapter XX: Book III: Of Induction

“According to the doctrine now stated, the highest, or rather the
only proper object of physics, is to ascertain those established
conjunctions of successive events, which constitute the order of
the universe; to record the phenomena which it exhibits to our
observations, or which it discloses to our experiments; and to
refer these phenomena to their general laws.”—D. STEWART,
_Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind_, vol. ii. chap. iv.
sect. 1.