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ted circle the invertebrated is the 3d in the zoological the 

 zoological department is the 1st in the organic the organic is 

 the 1st in the natural, and the natural is the 3d in the universal. 



Suppose a student is studying moral Philosophy, and we put 

 the question, What is the foundation of this branch of science? 

 The answer is, It is the 2d part in the mental department. And 

 this again is the 2d part in the universal. Now suppose the stu- 

 dent has been reading a sentence, and we select a word from it 

 and ask him what part of speech it is ? He would probably give 

 the name of it and show its relation to other parts of speech or 

 other words in the sentence, giving it a full explanation for if 

 he had even the ad vantages of a common education he would not 

 like to be thought ignorant of the grammar of his native lan- 

 guage. 



But did he ever stop to think that every sentence he reads has 

 reference to some one or more branches of science, and that that 

 branch has an appropriate place in the scale of science, and a 

 name and relation as much as any part of speech has a proper 

 place in the science of language ; and it is possible the time may 

 come when the student will be as anxious to understand correctly 

 the grammar of science as he now is to obtain a correct knowl- 

 edge of the rules or laws of his language. The time was, a few 

 centuries ago, when the world got along very well without a 

 knowledge of the grammar of language, but it is now considered 

 indispensable, and so it may eventually be in regard to the laws 

 of universal science. 



We will now carry this process out into the more minute parts 

 of creation, taking specimens from the animal kingdom. We 

 will trace synthetically the little bird known by the name of the 

 hedge sparrow (Parus Biarmicus of naturalists.) It is the 9th 

 remove from the great circle of the animal kingdom. It belongs 

 to the sub-genus, Parus Proper ; this little circle is sub-divided 

 from the Genus-Parus Parus is a division from the sub-family 

 Parianae Parianse is a division from the Family Sylviadae 

 Sylviadac is a division from the tribe Dentirosters Dentirosters 

 is divided from the order Insessores Insessores is the 1st divis- 



