20 BRANCHINGS OF THE UNIVERSE. 



Science. The largest Domain of Being, which is the 

 Universe itself, first splits up into a group of sub- 

 ordinate but yet immensely extended Domains, 

 which furnish Grand or Collective Sciences corres- 

 ponding to them ; these split up, in turn, into Groups 

 of smaller, and then of still smaller Domains, down to 

 those requisite degrees of minuteness which furnish 

 the limits of the ordinary special Sciences, and down 

 to the Branches or Departments of these Special 

 Sciences ; so that the Universe itself, with all its sub- 

 ordinate Departments of Being is, theoretically, subject 

 to a grand System of Distribution and Classification, 

 similar in principle to that by ivhich a Particular Do- 

 main, the Animal Kingdom, for example, is scientifically 

 distributed and classified or arranged. 



25. Any single thing, or collection of things, or 

 objects, or ideas whatsoever, is a Domain, it may be 

 a very small and comparatively insignificant one, of 

 Universal Being. A bureau or a table, or better let 

 us say, all bureaus or all tables, collectively, are, in 

 each case, such a Domain ; and by affixing the termi- 

 nation -logy, or the English -lore, cognate with the 

 German -lehre actually used for this purpose, we 

 might say, Bureau-ology or Bureau-lore or Tabul- 

 ology or Table-lore, for the names of such Sciences. 

 There are, however, several objections to this proce- 

 dure. The first is to what is called Lingual Hybridity, 

 which is the combining of words derived from dif- 

 ferent languages somewhat like the crossing of 

 breeds and species among animals. Another is th.it 

 these particular applications of the Principle of 



