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Of the Practical Sciences

and by the bell. But bellfoundery ought to be guided by a science which can only be placed in this group; and the same might be said of the whistle. Pyrotechny continued to be a fine art till the electric light outshone it. Now artistic smoke-forms are more admired. Pyrotechny is yielding to capnotechny. Concerning the recognized Fine Arts, Poetry, Music, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and the rejuvenated Window-art, it would be useless to say anything here.

The only remaining instinct on our list is the Gnostic Instinct, or curiosity. In one sense, the sciences that are practically ministrant to this one are the Theoretical Sciences; but this remark leads us to signalize a distinction the neglect of which is the source of several of the most fatal errors into which philosophers have fallen. It is quite true that the Gnostic Instinct is the cause of all purely theoretical inquiry, and that every discovery of science is a