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arranged into three departments , not rio-orously scientific indeed , but sufficiently so for our purpose . These are , I . Language . II . Mathematics . 111 . Philosophy , I , Language . In the fiVst department I would arrange as distinct sciences , 1 . languages and history , ancient and
modern : 2 . grammar : S . belles lettres : 4 . rhetoric and oratory : 5 , a school for the deaf , dumb and blind . History is here associated with languages , not as a kindred subject , but on a principle of economy , because both may be attained by the same course of reading , if books are selected with that view .
II . Mathematics . In the department of mathematics , I should place distinctly , 1 . mathematics pure : 2 . physico-mathematics : 3 . physics : 4 . chemistry : 5 . natural history , to wit , mineralogy : 6 . botany : and 7 . zoology : 8 . anatomy : 9 . the theory of medicine .
III . Philosophy . In the philosophical department , 1 should distinguish , 1 . ideology : Q ,. ethics : 3 . the law of nature and nations : 4 , government : 5 . political economy . But some of these terms being used by different writers , in different degrees of extension , I will define exactly what I mean to comprehend in each of them .
I . 3 . Within the term of belles leitres , I include poetry and composition generally , and criticism . II . 1 . 1 consider pure mathematics as the science of 1 . numbers , and 2 . measure in the abstract : that of
numbers comprehending arithmetic , algebra , and fluxions : that of measure , ( under the general appellation of geometry , ) comprehending trigonometry , plane and spherical , conic sections , and transcendental curves .
II . 2 . Physico-mathematics treat of physical subjects by the aid of mathematical calculation . These are mechanics , statics , hydrostatics , hydraulics , hydrodynamics , navigation , aatronomy , geography , optics , pneumatics , and acoustics .
H . Physics or natural philosophy ( not entering the limits of chemistry , ) treat of natural substances , their properties , mutual relations , and action . They particularly examine the subjects ^ mot ion , attraction , magnetism , electricity , galvanism , light , meteorology t » l . « l 4 p
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with an &c . not easily enumerated . These definitions and specification * render immaterial the question wbethet-I use the generic terms in the exact degree of comprehension in which others use them : to be understood is all that is necessary to the present object .
III . Professional Schools . At the close of this course , the students separate , the wealthy retiring with a sufficient stock of knowledge , to improve themselves to any degree
to which their views may lead them , and the professional section to the professional schools , constituting the 3 d grade of education , and teaching the particular sciences which the individuals of this section mean to
pursue , with more minuteness and detail than was within the scope of the general schools for the second grade of instruction . In these professional schools , each science is to be taught in the highest degree it has yet attained : They are to be in the
1 st Department , the fine arts , to wit , civil architecture , gardening , painting , sculpture and the theory of music . In the Qd Department , architecture ,
military and naval projectiles , rural economy , ( comprehending agriculture , horticulture and veterinary , ) technical philosophy , the practice of medicine , materia medica , pharmacy and surgery . In the
3 d Department , theology and ecclesiastical history , law , municipal and foreign . To these professional schools will come those who separated at the close of their 1 st elementary course , to wit : The lawyer to the school of law .
The ecclesiastic to that of theology and ecclesiastical history . The physician to those of the practice of medicine , materia medica , pharmacy andv surgery . The military man to that of military and naval architecture and projectiles . The agricultor to that of rural
economy . The gentleman , the architect , the pleasure gardener , painter and musician , to the school of fine arts . And to that of technical philosophy will come the mariner , carpenter , ship-wright , plough-w right , wheelwright , mill-wright , pump-maker , clock-maker , machinist , optician »
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Mr . Jeffers&tCs Ptan of a Cotbetfefor Virginia . 649
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 649, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/9/
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