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§ 24. Again, these tables, as the reader must already have noticed, 
embody much more than a mere classification for statistics in the 
narrower sense, and attempt nothing short of an organisation of the 
whole facts presented by the social sciences into a more definite and 
coherent body of knowledge than they have formed heretofore. The 
first series of tables, those of Territory, is intended to include the 
facts of political geography, while the second series is still more 
comprehensive. Its first table, that of Energy and Matter, in- 
cludes the subjects commonly termed economic physics, economic 
geology, economic botany, and zoology, of which there is a large, 
but inco-ordinated literature. * 
The table (B II.) entitled Development of Products, generalises 
a classification of the facts and processes of technology in the widest 
sense, including all the arts, coarse and fine, together with the pro- 
cesses of transport and exchange which the products undergo ; the 
developmental history of any given product (which is in many 
respects analogous to that of an organism), being written across the 
table from left to right. The minor tables, as yet unpublished, of 
which the most important is outlined at page 306, contain a classi- 
fication of all material products, potential, mediate, and ultimate. 
And it must not be supposed that these are mere a priori construc- 
tions, inapplicable to practice, the table of Development having 
really been worked out with a constant reference to the contents of 
technological encyclopaedias (of which the present arrangement is 
usually merely alphabetic), while the minor tables are the result of 
many weeks’ continuous attempt to classify the multitudinous con- 
tents of the last Paris Exposition, and of various smaller previous 
and subsequent museums of production. 
In like manner the three tables devoted to the organisms corn- 
copy of the Proceedings of Section F. of the British Association. At most he 
will only occasionally have a temporary difficulty in finding where to assign 
any subject, and this merely for want of the minor tables. 
* The names of these subjects are unsatisfactory, since scientific physics, 
geology, and biology have no economic aspects at all. The biologist, for 
instance, divides his subject into morphology, physiology, distribution, and 
aetiology, and finds no place for economic considerations. These subjects are 
really sociological ones, and should therefore be termed respectively physical 
economics, geological economics, botanical and zoological economics. The 
change is no mere verbal one, but involves a radical alteration of the point of 
view and mode of treatment, and indeed demands the handing over of these 
subjects to other cultivators. 
