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Logic II 43c

ralization broad, luminous, and solid must enter to
into an intellectual performance in order to command much
respect admiration. Such generalization, which teaches
a new and clear lesson upon the truth of which
reliance can be placed, requires to be drawn from
many specimens. We shall endeavor, in that way, to
define each class, that is to enumerate characters which
are absolutely decisive as to whether a given individual
does or does not belong to the class. But it may be, as
out kets show, that this is altogether out of the question;
and the fact that two classes merge is no proof that they
are not truly distinct natural classes.

{Section title: Natural Classification essentially a Study of Genesis}

For they may, nevertheless, be genealogically
distinct, just as no degree of resemblance between
two men is proof positive that they are brothjers. Now
genealogical classification, amont those objects of
which the genesis is genealogical, is the classification