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is at present deficient in both these qualifications,” yet holds it to 
be impracticable, since it is doubtful whether there could be any 
approach to general consent, either as to the divisions themselves 
or to the subdivisions placed in each. M. Deloche’s fifth division 
seems to him to be fatal to the plan, and the reader will readily 
notice many other objections. 
§ 4. He then goes on to suggest a temporary and provisional 
classification, which is summarised as follows : — 
“ I. Territory and Population. 
“ All geographical and demographical statistics, including areas, 
soils, climates, possessions, and territorial arrangements, movements 
and divisions of the population, and the purely social arrangements, 
such as trades, professions, &c., everything contained in the registrar- 
general’s returns, and what is beginning to be known as sociology 
generally. 
“II. Revenue and Commerce . 
“ All the sources of the collection, production, and distribution of 
wealth, the statistics of the precious and other metals, all facts 
relating to the use and abuse of money, exchange operations, all 
manufactures and industries, and commerce in its widest sense, 
including means of transport, navigation, &c., &c. 
“III. Laws and Government. 
“ All relating to legislation and policy of nations, which would 
include the making and breaking of laws, the constitution of 
imperial and local governing bodies, armies, navies, police forces, 
and the like ; education and religion, and all facts tending to show 
the state of civilisation of each nation as distinguished from other 
nations. 
“ IV. Miscellaneous (arranged alphabetically). 
Such an arrangement is, of course, as Dr Mouat indeed admits, 
the despairing abandonment of all pretence of scientific arrange- 
ment ; and it is curious to notice that this — the latest development 
of statistical classification, — is closely analogous, save for the 
omnium gatherum with which it concludes, to that earliest classili 
cation with which botanists commenced their labours, that of the 
