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9 Aug. 1814 + Logic Ch. │
9 Aug. 1814 +

Logic

Ch. │ │ Methodization

'. │ │ 3 Kingdoms

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Arrange 1. Lineal. 2. Aggregative or Agglomerative, or Conglomerative.

C.10 - Sec.9

Ch. or '.

Of subalternation and psychical division and definition, considered as applied or applicable to the three Physical Kingdoms: viz. 1. Animal. 2. Vegetable. 3. Mineral.

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Since the revival of letters, - i.e. of intellectual culture - the greater the length of time that has elapsed, the greater the quantity of time, and thence the greater the number of the persons that have been employed in the observation and examination of the subjects of these three portions of the intellectual world.

In each part, the number of these objects - of these sorts of objects - all different and distinguishable from each other, has received prodigious increase: to reduce them to masses of a comprehensible bulk, means have necessarily been looked out for, of breaking down each of these all-comprehensive aggregates into aggregates of less extent those again into others, and so on downwards until under the name of species a range of aggregates were established all situate upon the same level - no one of them containing any other aggregates - every one of them having for its contents individuals, and those not in any number greater than what might, without confusion, and with sufficient observation of their several points of agreement and difference, be contemplated by a scrutinizing eye.

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