PREFACE. XXV 



and with regard to the subject in question, 

 that such alteration did not take place, I 

 certainly must be permitted to say, is not 

 to be regretted : for what the matter might 

 have gained in form, it would have more 

 than lost in spirit and in interest. The 

 prompt and immediate introduction to the 

 whole business of the field, followed by 

 the compressed view of the system, as 

 again brought before the eye in the Voca- 

 bulary, puts the reader more directly in 

 possession of his subject : and the neces- 

 sary elucidation of particular points could 

 not in any way so well have been given, as 

 by a complete separation of the latter from 

 the general outline of duties, which with- 

 out such interruption, has been already 

 more distinctly traced. 



In saying this, it will be understood, 

 that the editor has very much in view the 

 matter intended to be delivered in the 

 unfinished chapters above alluded to ; and 

 being aware that a man who is not heard 

 to the full extent of what he has to say 

 upon a subject, is not heard to every 



