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successively unfolding solar systems, geological developments, 

 mineral kingdoms, animal kingdoms, and human races, with 

 all things which they respectively include. It is to be ob- 

 served that each of these successive particularizations is based 

 upon, and was included in, the next preceding general, as all 

 are based upon, and included in, the all-comprehensive General. 



Moreover, that the order in which these particularizations, 

 Kingdoms, or sub-creations have been brought under review, 

 is not an order arbitrarily adopted for our own convenience, 

 but clearly one observed by nature herself, is evident from 

 the fact, that no two systems or Kingdoms, as arranged in our 

 series of inquiries, can be transposed. This illustration of the 

 relations of generals and particulars also clearly shows, that 

 all truths are but involutions and evolutions of one funda- 

 mental truth hence that all truths must bear certain relations 

 and correspondences to each other, from their origins through- 

 out their successive ramifications, even to their ultimates; 

 and that no truth can be fully understood, except in the 

 general and particular light of all others. 



Moreover, if the serial order in which the grand divisions 

 of nature, as a whole, have been brought under review, is ac- 

 cording to the order of progressive development observed by 

 nature herself, the same is generally true of the serial order 

 of the seven sub-divisions which have been applied to each of 

 these grand divisions. By a particular review of either of 

 these classified sub-divisions, the reader will find, for example, 

 that the first member of the series is naturally germinal, and 

 that the seventh is naturally ultimate, to all the others ; and 

 that no two members of the series can be transposed without 

 deranging the harmony of the whole series. And though we, 

 of course, claim no absolute exemption from particular errors 

 and imperfections in the classifications which have been sub- 



