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Classification of the Sci
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glass, or human beings. But whether, in the last case, the passengers are going to gratify the Getting Instinct or the Gnostic Instinct he will not care to inquire; nor whether the iron is for railways or ships' armour. All these second purposes of the Sciences of Utility, (by which is meant practical sciences not having principally in view the gratification of a special instinct) may without violence to their living inter-relations be distributed into four groups, as follows: A, The Placing and Moving of Considerable Masses; B, Operations upon Special Materials; C, Operations involving Special Non-mechanical Forces; D, Operations involving Living Organisms. Thence results a division of the Sciences of Utility into four groups for the awkward designations of which humble apology is due to the reader. Namely,

The Sciences of Utility are either

A. Moloperous Sciences,* concerned with the placing, displacement, and motion of large masses.

*Scientiae operosae molium

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