FOURTH PROVINCE; 



TECHNOLOGY. 



IN the province of Technology, is here included the study of the 

 Physical Arts ; or those which relate to material objects, and result 

 from the physical constitution of the human race. The name is de- 

 rived from the Greek, tijcv^ an art, or trade ; and xoyoj, a word, or 

 discourse : and although the term has been sometimes applied in a 

 more limited sense, to the mere mechanic arts, we feel entirely jus- 

 tified, from its convenience and propriety, in giving it the extension 

 here proposed. We comprehend in this province, the departments 

 of rfrchitechnics, or the arts of Construction and Communication ; 

 Chreotechnics, or Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce ; Ma- 

 chetechnics, or the Arts of War ; and Callotechnics, or the Fine Arts, 

 in a limited sense ; exclusive of Poetry and Romance, which have 

 formed the basis of a preceding department. The reasons for this 

 arrangement have already been given, in the introduction to the pre- 

 sent work ; (pp. 34 36) ; with the distinction between the Sciences 

 and Arts ; and the reasons why they have not been uniformly sepa- 

 rated, in the present classification. The claims of Technology, as 

 here defined, may, we think, be easily vindicated, to constitute one 

 of the four great provinces of human knowledge ; the relative im- 

 portance of which has never been more highly estimated than at 

 the present day. 



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