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latent, and from the study of which is would infallibly be
drawn. Classification by the abstract forms of facts
essentially not connected with objects is classification
according to the ideas connected with them. This is the
mode in which alone ideas themselves can be classified.
Hence, we see find that it is in this way that mathematical
forms are always classified. It ultimately comes, as we shall see in
due time, to classification according to the cenopythagorean
categories, one, two, three. It is evident that classification
according to purpose is only a particular form
of classification by a connected idea; and so this mode
of classification is seen to be sole and supreme. Do not,
for a moment, understand me as extolling all numerical
classifications, or any considerable percentage of those
that are met with; for they are the easiest cheapest and least value worth