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and inflectional or holophrastic and analytic; and the wealth 

 of human culture into departments relating to languag, trans- 

 port, etc. 



In practical activities classification has a special and im- 

 portant part to play, for, having classified, we are enabled to 

 separate objects into groups. The grouping we may then utilise 

 for the elimination of faulty and superfluous groups, and for the 

 formulation of maximum number of standards, methods, tools, 

 machinery, material energies, and establishments. For this 

 reason, efficiency "engineers" regard classification as an in- 

 dispensable means for attaining their goal. 



207. Classification may be, further, conceived as definite- 

 ness in arranging the final results of an enquiry. At a glance 

 we can then perceive, as in a well-constructed book, the skeleton 

 which forms the support of the general argument and which 

 betokens its harmony and its compactness. Without a proper 

 classification of 'the results, without divisions and headings, we 

 are in danger of surmising that our conceptions are translucent 

 when they are nearly opaque, and in leaving others in doubt 

 concerning the precise results which we have obtained. In this 

 connection we will examine a concrete example of classification, 

 namely this treatise. 



At first the volume was divided into four parts, Part III being 

 sub- divided into several Sub-Parts. Eventually a new classi- 

 fication into two Books Theory and Practice was introduced, 

 the Sub-Parts becoming Parts. This furnished a more useful 

 division. 



Originally, in starting the book, concrete processes of thought 

 were examined, and rough notes were kept of the observations. 

 Later, the notes were consolidated under more and more con- 

 venient headings. Some of these headings were socially deter- 

 mined such as Observation, Generalisation, Deduction. Con- 

 currently numerous observations were made which were less 

 amenable to classification to begin with, e.g., those in Part IV. 

 The headings in Part II equally suggested themselves to some 

 extent at haphazard. 



"Preliminary Considerations" manifestly had to be placed 

 first, and the order of the Considerations, once these were 

 arrived at, were, broadly speaking, decided from the very com- 

 mencement. "The Problem" also had a predetermined position, 

 because of its logical place in the body of the work. Its intro- 

 ductory Section necessarily occupied its present place origi- 

 nally. The succession of the four Sections which followed this 

 one, was determined by the crescendo, from completest ignorance 

 to completest knowledge infant and child, uneducated, educated, 

 and man of genius. Not inappropriately this was succeeded by 

 the "Progress of Methodological Theory". Assuming the subject 

 exhausted, the "Conclusion" follows, and this should be so 

 methodologically with every Part. 



