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si^eak, comparable to De Candolle's system'^. 



Thus haviiig completed omr circuit of Mt. Fuji, let us consider tlie 

 beautiful vegetation of tlie moimtain. However diflferent be our starting 

 point, after lia^ing completed om- circuit tind combined the different views, 

 the correct idea thus acquii'ed of the mountain is alwaj^s the same. So it is 

 with the natural sjrstem. No matter what system we take for a first con- 

 sideration, after having considered all relations in all views, the result should 

 be always the same. 



For the framework in constructing the dynamic sj-stem, I prefer 

 EngIiEr's system to others, as it is the one most widely used by systematizers. 

 For the present, I shall content myself with forming the system of the 

 Angiosperms, as that class is the one with which I am most famiHar, 

 although I beheve tliat systems for the other classes can be formed in the 

 same manner. Now, to construct a dynamic sj^stem, arrange the series and 

 famiHes in the same order as iu the system taken for a framework, and on 

 both sides of a series or a family, put into such order as you Hke the several 

 series or famiHes respectively that are known to have some relations to the 

 middle series or family, bearing in mind tliat the relative positions between 

 the series or famiHes thus arranged laterally and those in the middle vary 

 with criteria. Next, put many shorfc Hnes on both sides of the same series 

 or famiHes in the middle, a Httle more distant than the series or famiHes 

 aheady placed, keeping in ^-iew the fact that the Hnes denote series or famiHes 

 whose relations to the middle- member are as yet unknown to us, though such 

 surely exist, according to the participation theory. In the full extent of the 

 latter theory, all the series and famiHes, as many as are in the system, must 

 necessarily l^e related iu equal or different degree according as we consider 

 the matter from the standpoiut of universaHty or from that of particularity. 

 Tlie true method, therefore, in the above system - construction, is to arrange all 

 series or famUies other than the middle oue ou both sides of the latter. 



1) For tlie sake of convenience, I have here metaphorically compared different systems to 

 different views o£ the mountain. Yet, spealdng more correctly, a static system such as 

 Englee'8 is something hke a mosaic i)icture of the mountain, one part of which is taken 

 from one view, and another part of which is taken from another ; while the real natural system 

 is, as it were, comparable to the mountain itself. 



