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Word-Building are unusual, and therefore sound bar- 

 barous to our ears. Hence they are technically 

 called Barbarisms. But the main objection, and the 

 only one really important, is that already intimated, 

 namely, that these are unimportant Domains, not 

 sufficient to sustain the dignity of an independent 

 Science. The supposed cases will serve however to 

 illustrate the manner in which Scientific men have 

 devised names for new Sciences, or in which such 

 namings spontaneously spring up amidst the usages 

 of the Scientific World and gradually pass into the 

 common body of Language. 



26. It will appear from the preceding explanation 

 that it is an important, and, at the same time, a diffi- 

 cult thing, to determine just what and how many 

 sciences there should be recognized or held to exist. 

 It is much like the question of how many colors 

 there are, when in point of fact, colors are either 

 very few, as Three, or Seven, or perhaps Twelve, as 

 somewhat primary, or else infinitely numerous, ac- 

 cording to the generality or the minuteness of our 

 discriminations. The actual origin of New Sciences, 

 or their recognition as such, has been, heretofore, 

 pretty nearly left to chance ; but various attempts 

 have been made, since the incipiency of such effort 

 with Aristotle among the Greeks, to enumerate and 

 distribute or classify the Sciences. Bacon, D'Alem- 

 bert, Auguste Cornte, Ampere, Herbert Spencer and 

 others, have been engaged in this important under- 

 taking, the difficulty of which has hitherto prevented it 

 f L'orn having been fully and satisfactorily accomplished. 



