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THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE. 



in the Opuscula of Aquinas, as quoted by Mansel in his 

 edition of Aldrich s Artis Logicae Rudimenta/ second 

 edition, p. 31, we find the Tree nearly in the following 

 form : 



Corporea 



Animatum 



Sensibile 



Rationale 



Substantia 



Corpus 



Vivens 



Animal 



Homo 



Incorporea 



Inauimatum 



Insensibilo 



Irrationale 



Socrates 



Plato. 



This example of the bifurcate method, although re 

 peated in almost all compendiums and treatises on logic, 

 attracted no particular attention until the time of Peter 

 Ramus and his followers, who are commonly said to have 

 bestowed so much attention and praise upon it as to-be 



