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Physics,

-Water Spouts,
Earthquakes,
Volcanoes,

Tides,
Metaphysics,
Jurisprudence,
Government,
Politics,

Anatomy,

Surgery, Physic,

Pharmacy,

Chemistry,
Mineralogy,
Rhetoric and Oratory,
Grammar,
Language,
Poetry,
Music,
Mathematics,
Arithmetic,
Commerce,
Geometry,
Merhanics,

Optics,
Astronomy,
-The Solar system,

The Fixed stars,
Geography,

-Europe,
-Asia,
Africa,
America,
North America,

British Colonies,

United States,
Spanish Provinces,
South America,

-West Indies,
Chronology,
Architecture,
Painting,
Sculpture,
Mythology,
History,
Chemistry,

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A SYSTEM

OF

POLITE LEARNING.

OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Question. WHAT is meant by a Science?

Answer. A system of any branch of knowledge, comprehendiog its doctrine, reason, and theory; without any inmediate application of it to the uses of life.

Q. What is an art?

A. A collection of rules and precepts for doing a thing surely, readily, and gracefully; or knowledge reduced into practice.

Q. How are the arts divided?
A. Into liberal and mechanical.
Q. What are the liberal arts?

A. Those that are ingenious, or cultivated withį out any immediate regard to the profit arising from

them; as poetry, music and painting; rhetoric, gramInar, and sculpture.

Q. Why are they called liberal?

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A. Because the. ancients allowed them to be studied only by the liberi or free persons.

Q. What are the mechanical arts?

A. Those wherein the hand and body are more concerned than the mind, and which are cutlivated for the sake of the profit attending them: as cabinet-making, ship-building, and weaving; turnery, masonry, and carpentry; popularly known by the name of trades.

Q. Why are they termed mechanical?

A. They take their denomination from a Latin word, [machina] signifying a machine; as being all practised by means of some machine or instrument.

Q. What are the principal sciences?

A. Theology, philosophy, and jurisprudence; physic, rhetoric, grammar, poetry, and mathematits.

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THEOLOGY.

Q. What is theology?

A. A science which instructs us in the knowledge of God, and Divine things and teaches us the manmer in which we should serve our Creator.

Q. Whence, is the word theology derived?

A. From two Greek words [Theos logos] siguifying the word of God.

Q. How is theology divided: