They seem to me to be endeavouring, roughly speaking, to combine the two.

They believe absolute knowledge attainable, and they devote much time to the study of nature, in which pursuit they make use of highly analytical methods.

They subdivide phenomena to an extent that would surprise and probably amuse a Western thinker.

They count fourteen distinct colours in the rainbow, and invariably connect sound, even to the finest degrees, with shades of colour.

I could name many other peculiarities of their mode of studying natural phenomena, which displays a much more minute subdivision and classification of results than you are accustomed to.