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than these ; and although we may have been accustomed to 

 peak of the nature of the mind, and the nature of the divine 

 attributes, this term has been selected as the least objectionable. 



The term organization is placed over the three kingdoms of 

 nature, the animal, vegetable, and mineral, and includes, as this 

 system requires, all the laws belonging to them under one head. 

 Although this term has been applied exclusively to the two form~ 

 er, while the mineral kingdom 'has been termed inorganic, there 

 is good reason, as will be hereafter shown, for designating them 

 all under one general name, applying to all bodies gradually 

 assuming peculiar forms under distinct laws. Vegetable forma- 

 tions differ quite as much from animal formations as those of the 

 mineral kingdom do from vegetation. The earth, independent 

 of animal and vegetable matter, is as truly an organism as the 

 human body, and yet the atmosphere, water, and earthy substan- 

 ces, of which it is composed, are all mineral. 



By the term, calorific motion, as used in the synopsis, is not 

 meant any one of the sensible properties of fire, such as heat or 

 light, but the primary cause of them all.* 



By the analytic process is meant the dividing and sub-dividing 

 of a whole into its various parts or ultimate elements. 



By the synthetic process, we take the reverse sequence, re-uni- 

 ting the parts in their order till we have formed them into one. 

 In every perfect organism, or system, there is a law of relation and 

 subordination of parts running throughout, which we must follow 

 analytically or synthetically, if we would understand the system. 



Now, it is evident that without this process any one may form 

 imaginary divisions, and from them an imaginary or artificial 

 classification, applying to any known branch of science, such, for 

 instance, as the animal kingdom, or a class of vegetable forms ; 

 and he may even found his arrangements upon some supposed or 

 real resemblances. A great many such attempts have been 



"The divisions of motion are organic, mechanical, and calorific calorific motion 

 will be divided into combustion, electricity, and magnetism and combustion into beat 

 light, and chemical rays electricity into positive, negative, and neutral force, which, 

 under the name of magnetism, becomes centripetal, centrifugal and tangental motion. 



