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tonly counterfeiting and imitating them, or forming them 

 into certain classes by composition or separation. Thus 

 it is clearly manifest that history, poetry, and philosophy 

 flow from the three distinct fountains of the mind, viz., 

 the memory, the imagination, and the reason; without any 

 possibility of increasing their number. For history and ex 

 perience are one and the same thing; so are philosophy and 

 the sciences. 



Nor does divine learning require any other division; for 

 though revelation and sense may differ both in matter and 

 manner, yet the spirit of man and its cells are the same; 

 and in this case receive, as it were, different liquors through 

 different conduits. Theology, therefore, consists 1, of 

 sacred history; 2, parable, or divine poesy; and 3, of 

 holy doctrine or precept, as its fixed philosophy. As&quot; 

 for prophecy, which seems a part redundant, it is no 

 more than a species of history; divine history having 

 this prerogative over human, that the narration may pre 

 cede, as well as succeed the fact. 



CHAPTEK II 



History divided into Natural and Civil ; Civil subdivided into Ecclesiastical 

 and Literary. The Division of Natural History according to the sub 

 ject matter, into the History of Generations, of Prseter-Generations, 

 and the Arts 



HISTOK Y is either natural or civil : the natural records 

 the works and acts of nature; the civil, the works 

 and acts of men. Divine interposition is unques 

 tionably seen in both, particularly in the affairs of men, 

 so far as to constitute a different species of history, which 

 we call sacred or ecclesiastical. But such is the dignity of 

 letters and arts, that they deserve a separate history, which, 

 as well as the ecclesiastical, we comprehend under civil 

 history. 



