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in civilized countries a place unique among 

 books, but which has further established its 

 claim to precedence by the practical test of 

 being the first to get itself printed. The 

 Museum classification accordingly begins 

 with the Bible, and I venture to express 

 the opinion that every sound classification 

 will do the same. 



When the next question emerges, how 

 to arrange the Bible itself, we alight at 

 once upon a few simple principles, which, 

 with the necessary modifications, will prove 

 applicable throughout. It is obvious that 

 entire Bibles should precede parts of 

 Bibles; that originals should precede 

 translations ; the more ancient originals, the 

 more recent ; and Bibles in both the ori- 

 ginal tongues those in one only. We thus 

 obtain the following arrangement at start- 

 ing : Polyglots, Hebrew Bibles, Greek 



