THIRD PROVINCE ; 



PHYSICONOMY. 



IN the province of Physiconomy, we would include those studies 

 which relate more immediately to the material world ; its forms and 

 structure ; its agencies and changes ; its composition and varied rela- 

 tions ; including those of animal and vegetable life. The name is 

 derived from the Greek ^ucftj, nature : and xytoj, law ; signifying 

 literally the Laws of Nature ; using this term, as it is often used, to 

 designate the world of matter, or material objects collectively con- 

 sidered. In this province we comprehend the departments of 

 Mathematics, or the study of numbers and magnitudes ; Jlcrophy- 

 sics, or Natural Philosophy, relating chiefly to natural phenomena ; 

 Idiophysics, or Natural History, treating chiefly of natural produc- 

 tions ; and rfndrophysics, or the Medical Sciences, relating chiefly 

 to the human frame, that microcosm, or minor world, the last and 

 highest material production of the great Creator. The reasons for 

 arranging these departments in the above mentioned order, having 

 already been stated, need not here be repeated. (See pp. 34 and 35.) 



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