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and studies that may provisionally and for convenience be 

 termed applied." 1 



The construction of the table proceeds, then, with the 

 arrangement of the philosophies, sciences, histories, and 

 applied sciences in parallel columns, each exhibiting grada- 

 tion by speciality. The column of the sciences is taken as 

 the pattern. "Our point of view being dominantly that of 

 natural science, the main divisions of our system are likewise 

 consistent with the fundamental sciences as graded by spe- 

 ciality, and the correlative, or parallel, branches of philoso- 

 phy and of history are there accordingly placed under the 

 respective main divisions, and so also are the more scientific 

 branches of technology. This is the schematic statement for 

 the most comprehensive and fundamental structure of our 

 system.'' 2 



The tabular arrangement which Bliss proposes is as 

 follows : 



BLISS'S CLASSIFICATION 3 



1 Ibid., p. 213. 2 Ibid., p. 252. 



3 H. E. Bliss, A System of Bibliographic Classification (New York: H. W. Wilson, 

 1935), p. 75. 



