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TABULATION. Beginning
Beginning
We have now consider'd the
manner of arranging & giving
names to Offences; it remains
that something be said concerning
the best method [to be observed]
of putting in disposing them in form of a
Table. v. 1/4 that stand represented seems to be exhibited
together in an
The An operation so important like this of such dignity &
and respect to Human Intellect
through not this only but every subject of it's
empire, which traces it's nerves
which extends it's grasp, &
which gives it wings to soar
to Regions unexplored, may
well deserve a name whereby
it may be instantaneously called
up, without the aid ministration of tedious
& awkward circumlocutions.
I call it Tabulation.
Tabulation is either Simple or
Arboric.
Simple is where a number
of Articles are placed together in company
according to some principle of
connection, but so as to be
all co-ordinate: not being in
any series of subalternating division,
either because their subject
neither admitts not of any such
divisions distribution nor because those such
divisions, [in potentia] tho' existing subsisting admissible representable, are
not [in acting] noticed.
The Arboric is that in which
the whole subject is cast into
a series of Divisions & Subdivisions, branching
as in a tree & multiplying at each ramification as
they diverge from the some common
Trunk.
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The most [compleat & most] satisfactory method of arboric Tabulation is to make each Branchthat which makes seems to be this: viz to make Broad or something equivalent to each
stand as in the form of an Attributive an Adjective predicable as a quality of it's immediately preceding
Trunk; which Trunk having stood before as an Adjective Attributive to it's Trunk so &
on, serves now as a Substantive to this & with it's other co-ordinate Branch
The popu habitude of such Branch to such it's Trunk is by this means regularly
made out: and the Popular absolute compendious name which is absolute if compendious may be all along subj
in apposition to this it's the relative, classical periphractical one which is relative & periphractical. thus elicited.
By observing wherein this differs from that which is most common, we shall the better understand
its nature, Let us see wherein this differs from that method common which is most simple & most
The common method contents itself with making exhibiting the Branches in the Substantives
predicable of & subjicible to the Trunk; that By the method is disclosed that whence the former are
respectively with the latter as being identified with it in some respect, but not what in
respect: as being some mode of it, but not what-mode. That they are members of
the preceding Dividend, Divisible whole is announced, but how they come to be entitled to be so, & what
manner they are so, is not shewn: By this, the THAT & the HOW (and in a practical
subject as our's is) the WHEREFORE may be shewn together.
I express my the same meaning in different ways that if one does not take with a reader another may in
By the common method you learn indeed [that is you are told] that the Branches at are
many parts of the Trunk which is the divisible whole: but what parts or how they came
to be parts (much more whether they be all the parts) is what you are left to search
The one represents the whole Tree taken to pieces, the Branches being laid in
their order indeed, but detached & as it were at a certain distance. The other represents the
contiguous & fitted connected one.
Or rather to change the Emblem — the first method may represents a Skeleton the,
basis of which are [all] placed indeed in their due situations relative to each other aggregated indeed in their proper Groupes,
but at a distance remain separate detached however & without their Ligaments: the latter represents the same Skeleton
with the bones not only placed in their situations, aggregated in their proper groupes but brought in to contact at
all the proper points, & fitted on to each other [& to the Trunk] by the proper their Ligaments,
For a System of Offences, as for one System of any other Articles -thing else to be well understood, it
is of great use to devise an some expedient whereby it's several articles may be represented
together at a view. They will be well represented, if it be made appear, how they
came to be parts, & wherefore (in a practical subject like this) they are made parts,
what are their several habitudes to the whole System and differences from each other.
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