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of opinion may exist on these and similar 

 points. On a more serious defect there 

 can be no difference of opinion, but it is a 

 defect inherent in all finite things. In an 

 ideal classification by book-press one sepa- 

 rate press, at least, would be provided for 

 each subject, however minute. But an ideal 

 library would also have room for each sub- 

 division. We cannot have the ideal classi- 

 fication without the ideal library, and, al- 

 though I hazard nothing in saying that, 

 thanks to the genius of the designer, Sir 

 Anthony Panizzi, economy of space in the 

 new buildings of the Museum has been 

 carried to the utmost extent conceivable, 

 space is still insufficient to provide a dis- 

 tinct niche for every well-marked division 

 of a subject. Upwards of five hundred 

 such subdivisions are provided for ; never- 

 theless this large number is not exhaus- 



