SECOND PROVINCE; 



ETHNOLOGY. 



IN the province of Ethnology, we include the study of Nations, 

 geographically and historically ; having regard to their location and 

 strength; their institutions and customs; their origin and history; 

 their distinguished men ; and their imaginative literature ; these last 

 topics being very closely connected with the preceding. The name 

 is derived from the Greek, tOvos, a nation ; and xoyoj, a discourse. 

 In this province, we comprehend the departments of Geography, 

 including Statistics, and Voyages and Travels ; Chronography, or 

 Civil History and Antiquities ; Biography, relating to the lives of 

 Eminent men : and Callography, or the study of Poetry, Romance, 

 and similar miscellaneous literature. The reasons for placing these 

 departments in this order, and in this province, we have already 

 briefly explained, [p. 34]. 



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