170 THE MINERAL KINGDOM; OR, 



If the reader will carefully inspect this table, he will here 

 find the same harmony of parts, the same correspondence be- 

 tween Primary and Secondary Trinities, the same order of 

 relations, and the same principles of serial association, which 

 he will find in all other natural seven-fold serieses heretofore 

 exhibited, or hereafter to be exhibited. 



But a still more specific classification of mineral or physical 

 substances embraces all the simple elements, with their 

 natural compound forms, as known to chemistry as will be 

 seen by the following table : 



PRIMARY TRINITY. 



1. Alkalizable and oxidizable 

 simples (such as Potassium, 

 sodium, iron, lead, hydrogen, 

 etc.) 



2. Acidizable simples (such as 

 sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, 

 etc.) 



3. Flagrators, or alkalizers, acid- 

 ifiers, and oxidizers* (oxygen 



SECONDARY TRINITY 



4. Lowest combined forms (such 

 as alkalies, acids, oxides, sul- 

 phurets, carburets, etc.) 



5. Binary compounds (such as 

 sulphates, carbonates, etc.) 



6. Higher and ultimate com- 

 pounds. 



and chlorine). 



7. Pervading and enveloping electroid, or etheroid unit, as a homo- 

 geneous involution and evolution of all forms. 



But the Mineral Kingdom, as commonly contemplated, is 

 circumscribed to the realm of crystallized forms, and the 

 amorphous substances from which these immediately proceed. 

 A theory of a septinary arrangement of the Mineral King- 

 dom, as viewed in this aspect, might be here submitted, but, 

 from not having made crystalography a particular branch of 

 study, I have not sufficient confidence in its conformity to 

 nattire, and will therefore omit it. Enough, however, has 

 been said to show that the Mineral Kingdom, in its more 

 general aspect, conforms to the seven-fold serial and corre- 



