CLASSIFICATION.

The system of classification used in the Library of Congress, was prepared

by Mr. Jefferson, and based upon Lord Bacon's division of knowledge. The

books are classed according to the faculties of the mind employed on them.

I. MEMORY. II. REASON.

III. IMAGINATION.

These are applied respectively to-

I. HISTORY. II. PHILOSOPHY. III. FINE ARTS.

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Chapter

Ancient...

... Ancient History....

1

( Foreign History.

2

( Civil........ Modern....

British History

3

American History.

4

Ecclesiastical... ...Ecclesiastical History 5

( Natural Philosophy.. 6

I HISTORY....

Agriculture..

Physics ....

Chemistry..

Surgery.

Medicine.

10

| Natural..

Natural History pro- | Anatomy.

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per.....

Zoology..

12

Botany,

13

Mineralogy..

14

Occupations of Man in Technical Arts...

15

Ethics.

. Moral Philosophy.

Religion

. Religion ..

17

Common Law Treatises... 18

Common Law Reports...

19

Equity..

20

( Moral,

Ecclesiastical Law... 21

Jurisprudence.....

Maritime and Cominercial

Law..

22

Civil Law, Codes, Statutes. 23

II. PeosOPHY

Law of Nature and Nations 24

Politics ..

Politics..

25

Pure Mathematics. .. Arithmetic and Geometry. 26

Mathematical

( Mechanics, Statics, Dynam-

ics, Poeumatics, Phonics,

Physico-Mathematics and Optics..

277

Astronomy.

28

Geography

23

Architecture..

30

Painting, Sculpture, Land-

scape Gardening, Numis-

matics.

31

Music...

32

Poetry..

33

IL FINE ARTS.....

The Drama..

34

Fiction....

35

Dialogues and Epistles.. 36

Logic and Rhetoric 37

Bibliography and Criticism 38

Language..

39

Collections and Miscellany...... . Polygraphical.

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