devoted to Mathematical and Physical Science,” a 
nearly all the. ‘provinces included within the present domains of 
Science, into the precise condition to need the services of well 
furnished monographers. 
An invaluable result of such a presentation of these eons 
would be found in the aid which investigators would thus re- 
ceive, towards keeping up their general scientific culture, vias 
turning too much away from their specialities. ere seems no 
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means of an le RE expend of their monographie aids, 
of all positive results stated as far as possible in t 10n 
_ language of science, will become continually more pressing. It 
_ will be only by the aid of monographs of various degrees of 
generality, that the entire domain of science can henceforth be 
at all surveyed by any single investigator narrowest fields, 
being first duly digested into monographs, wl ae the ma- 
terials for monographs of higher generality, a om these, step 
by step, the ascent will be to that universal ale ee which 
shall draw within its compass all the high generalities of that 
great epic cosmos in which science will attain its far off final 
consummation. When physical science becomes thus organized 
and digested, we shall no longer be constrained to behold the 
ardent mind, borne away by vied pais speculations beyond all 
basis of fact, or the far more revoltin mind, cramped within 
a petty peaciatay, and Gialeial ay ignoring all the vast Sian 
of vital generalities, simply because it transcends its own dwarfed 
and grevelling comprehension. 
only worthy type of scientific mind is that which at the 
same aioe pursues special and general truth, which can see grand 
generalities —- ng the minutest phenomena, and which can 
trace in the loftiest generalities the simple conan of an infi- 
nite series of kindred special — The entire character 
of the active investigating mind of the coming giaecation will 
be much influenced by this monographic tendency and need. 
The extent to which we shall digest into rar wholes the 
now dispersed and fragmentary materials on a long array of sub- 
jects in mathematical and physical science, will eee measure 
the shnaamsct: aguas of that just union of the generalizing 
aud the specializing power whence alone can spring a true pro- 
gress in we philoso wt 
s now presented, are essential preliminaries to a full 
SE iesttantiag of the bearings and workings of an index of papers 
on mathematical and physical science. This subject is one which 
_ the naturalists have better appreciated than the mathematicians 
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