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The author bases his support of psycho-analysis as a science on its power of giving order and genetic and dynamic significance to great quantities of very varied detail by means of its general laws. He insists, rather dogmatically, that it is a strictly empirical science apart from its metaphysics. In its use of hypotheses, theories, ideas and principles he likens it to the basic sciences such as chemistry and physics rather than to their derivatives such as medicine.