114 The Higher Usefulness of Science 



instruction presents it is apt to be slighted at its two 

 ends. Too frequently, the beginning is made with: 



Kingdom, Animal, and runs on: 



Province, Metazoa. 



Phylum, Vertebrata. 



Class, Mammalia. 



Order, Primates. 



Genus, Homo . . . and end with 



Species, Sapiens. 



The point of criticism is that the super kingdom, the' 

 Empire (if our terminology must retain its ancient 

 monarchic coloring), is not constantly enough included 

 at the broad end ; and at the narrow end the subspecies 

 or variety is more frequently slighted than it ought to 

 be; and from the very apex the individual is almost 

 entirely ignored. 



"Empire, Living Being, or Organism, or Bios" ought 

 to be always included as the logician's genus generalissi- 

 mum; and, at the other end, "Individual, Eleanor, 

 Ezra," etc., ought to be always included as the logi- 

 cians species specialissima or infima species. 



The synoptic description, definition and classifica- 

 tion of man would then be : any natural body which is 

 multicellular, has a vertebral column, suckles its young, 

 habitually walks erect on its hind limbs and uses its 

 fore limbs for prehension, and talks rationally. And 

 this is, too, both a biological and a logical meaning of 



