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tory as Biography from the parent stem 

 by the intrusion of the entire department 

 of Geography ; while it appears to me that 

 the Useful Arts would have formed, through 

 Domestic Economy, a more natural sequel 

 to Medicine than Fine Art, and in ar- 

 ranging the latter department I should 

 have assigned the last instead of the first 

 place to Archaeology and its allied subjects. 

 Forensic Medicine might also have been 

 conveniently placed at the end of Law, to 

 connect that subject with Natural Science. 

 I should further feel much inclined to 

 form a class for Encyclopaedias immedi- 

 ately after Philology ; both because dic- 

 tionaries of general knowledge seem legiti- 

 mate successors to dictionaries of languages, 

 and that the end of the classification might 

 be answerable in dignity to the beginning. 

 I am aware how much room for diversity 



