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division, leaving each superior branch of the last circle, when we 

 have divided as far as the subject may require, and proceeding to 

 the lower, or next in order, and thus continuing to the most re- 

 mote parts to simple and individual elements ; the classifica- 

 tion is the same, however far it is carried all branches are con- 

 nected, each occupying its own proper place. 



From the preceding general view of the subject it will be seen, 

 firstly, that this system does not require, as some have supposed, 

 that every thing should be divided into three parts. But it 

 seems to prove that the mathematical arrangement here propos- 

 ed, furnishes the only correct formulas that will apply to the pri- 

 mary divisions and classification of universal science. This for- 

 mulas, requiring that the first divisions in every combination 

 forming unity in the laws of science, should be made out by ref- 

 erence to two extremes and a medium as the only correct data for 

 investigation. In applying this data to the analytic divisions in 

 the consecutive and proper order, in any succession of beings, or 

 organisms or parts of an organ, as arranged by the Great Author 

 of all, one and the same rule is required, viz : the most important, 

 the most complex, the most perfect branch, (if we may use the 

 term where every thing is perfect in its place,) constitutes the 

 first extreme in all cases, and the lowest the most elementary 

 the most simple branch, constitutes the last extreme, while 

 the intermedium occupies the place between, being as much be- 

 low the first as it is above the last. Now, each of these contains 

 its own particular extremes and medium when considered sep- 

 arately. The process may be compared to that which takes 

 place in the separated pieces of a magnet, where each piece 

 assumes the extremes of opposite polarity with an intermediate 

 neutral space thus continuing in all respects like the original 

 large magnet from which they were broken, being divisions 

 from it. 



