SO CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES. 



and others that arc not universal, and that these must 

 be classed apart, is obvious. And that the sub 

 divisions of the non-universal truths, are to be made in 

 something like the manner shown in the tables, is 

 proved by the fact that when the descriptive words 

 arc read from the root to the extremity of any branch, 

 they form a definition of the Science constituting that 

 branch. That the minor divisions might be other 

 wise arranged, and that better definitions of them 

 might be given, is highly probable. They are here 

 set down merely for the purpose of showing how this 

 method of classification works out. 



I will only further remark, that the relations of the 

 Sciences as thus represented, are still but imperfectly 

 represented : their relations cannot be truly shown 

 on a plane, but only in space of three dimensions. 

 The three groups cannot rightly be put in linear 

 order as they have here been. Since the first stands 

 related to the third, not only indirectly through the 

 second, but also directly it is directly instrumental 

 with respect to the third, and the third supplies it 

 directly with subject-matter. Their relations can 

 thus only be truly shown by a divergence from a 

 common root on different sides, in such a way that 

 each stands in juxta-position to the other two. And 

 only by the like mode of arrangement, can the relations 

 among the sub-divisions of each group be correctly 

 represented. 



