The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-08-07
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Hogan and Thompson publishers Of PHILADELPHIA
have in the press and will shortly publish, workp
Professor Roswell Park Of the University oil fenn-
sylyania, formerly Of West Point, which Is % emi
nenly useful 10 its design and character as 70 deserve
and no doubt will command the attention oil the pub
lie and particularly the reading public y designed
as general Guide 10 Human knowledge and Is ae-
companied with complete and Classification OF
science in general. It is entitled Pathology" or a
Systematic Survey Of Human knowledge, proposing
alton of all its branches and illustrating
their history, relations uses, and Objects with sy
nopsis Of their leading facts and principles, and Sc
Iect catalogue Of books all subjects suitable for
Cabinet Library the whole designed guide 10
study for advanced students in Colleges, Academies,
and Schools and popular directory IN literature
science and the arts; by Roswell Park, A NJ, Fro
fessor Of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, IN the
University Of Pennsylvania, Mem. Am. PM. 90,
cety, IL will form an octave volume oil apou. Wy
pages illustrated with several superior coPperPlate ana
Iylographc engrayings. IL commences with rapd
glance over the wide range Of Human hno"iedge,
and reSe. Of the principal sources from ~hicn y y
derived among which the ancient schools OF pm
Iosophy modern learned societies, Libraries ana ehes-
cops has thence deducing the necessity OF some cias-
guide the inquirer alter books or iniorma
ZION The iorner classlfcations OF knowledge are
briefly described, including those OF Bacon and Am
pere; and new CLASSIFICATION PoPOseui WuSn 70 oe-
heyed have important advantages over any Of the
preceding The of this classification consists
10 the division of all human knowledge into four great
provinces Psyeonomy OF the laws OF the intellectual
world Ettinology, or the study Of man in society
Physeonomy or the laws OF the natural world; Itet-
7soogy the study of the physical arts These pro-
yinces next subdisided into departments, each oil
which embraces several branches Of knowledge close
ly allied each other and thus the names of the SIX
teen departments key TO the arrangement oil
all subjects in a natural and progressive order, while,
under each head as much useful information Is given
as the limits of the work would allow.
We are aware that several classification Of Human
knowledge have already been proposed by dislin-
puished scholars; but none Of them have ever met
with general APPRECIATION and adoption in the learned
world That oil Lord Bacon mentioned above, found
ed on the powers of The humt mind reason memory,
and Imagination, and hence dividing all knowledge
into philosophy history and the arts has perhaps met
with the most favor, President Jefferson adopted II
with some notifications in the arrangements OF his
library, afterwards purchased by Congress
The classification of Professor Park is intended TO
aid the memory in recalling the various branches OF
knowledge by presenting them according TO their rea-
ton and dependencies. In The present state OF learn
ing, if rightly apprehend IT, vast amount OF use
fu information Is locked up from the great mass oil
common readers by being spread through numerous
rare works confused and undigested or clothed IN
technicalities which but the professed student
has the means of comprehending general outline
OF human knowledge displaying its parts, explaining
their connection, and describing the technical terms
which they involve cannot fail TO assist materially
every willing seaIcher after truth and utility. The
talents and erudition Of the author large guaran-
tees for the successful accomplishment ofthe object