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PLAN OF THE CYCLOP/EDIA. 



The New American Cyclopaedia presents a panoramic vie\f 

 of all human knowledge, as it exists at the present moment. 

 It embraces and popularizes every subject that can be thought 

 of. In its successive volumes is contained an inexhaustible 

 fund of accurate and practical information on Art and Science 

 m all their branches, including Mechanics, Mathematics, As- 

 tronomy, Philosophy, Chemistry, and Physiology; on Agri- 

 culture, Commerce, and Manufactures; on Law, Medicine, and 

 Theology ; on Biography and History, Geography and Ethnol- 

 ogy; on Political Economy, the Trades, Inventions, Politics, 

 the Things of Common Life, and General Literature. 



The Industrial Arts and those branches of Practical Science 

 which have a direct bearing on our every-day life, such as 

 Domestic Economy, Ventilation, the Heating of Houses, Diet, 

 &c., are treated with the thoroughness which their great im- 

 portance demands. 



The department of Biography is full and complete, embra- 

 cing the lives of all eminent persons, ancient and modern. In 

 American biography, particularly, great pains have been taken 

 to present the most comprehensive and accurate record that 

 has yet been attempted. 



In History, the "New American Cyclopaedia gives no mere 

 catalogue of barren dates, but a copious and spirited narrative, 

 under their appropriate heads, of the principal events in the 

 annals of the world. So in Geography, it not only serves as a 

 general Gazetteer, but it gives interesting descriptions of the 

 principal localities mentioned, derived from books of travel 

 and other fresh and authentic sources. 



As far as is consistent with thoroughness of research and 

 exactness of statement, the popular method has been pursued. 

 The wants of the people in a work of this kind have been care- 

 fully kept in view throughout. 



It is hardly necessary to add that, throughout the whole, 

 perfect fairness to all sections of country, local institutions, public 

 men, political creeds, and religious denominations, has been a 

 sacred principle and leading aim. Nothing that can be con- 

 itrued into an invidious or offensive allusion has been admitted. 



