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abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22. And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas; and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature, after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was

so.

25. And God made the beast of the earth, after his kind, and cattle after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27. So God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28. And God blessed them; and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

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30. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meet; and it was so.

31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

I will now proceed to redeem my promise respecting Dr. Locke's method of a common place book.

Extract of a letter from Mr. Locke to Mr. Toignard.

At length, sir, in obedience to you, I publish my method of a Common Place Book. You may remember that I freely communicated it to you and several others, to whom I imagined it would not be unacceptable: so that it was not to reserve the whole use of it to myself that I declined publishing it. Yet my obligations to you, and the friendship between us, compel me now, to follow your advice. Your last letter has fully determined me to it, and I am convinced that I ought not to delay publishing it, when you tell me that an experience of several years has showed its usefulness, and several of your friends, to whom you have communicated it.

There is no need I should tell you how useful it has been to me, after five and twenty years experience, as I told you eight years since, when I had the honour to wait on you at Paris, and when I might have been instructed by your learned and agreeable discourse.

What I am at now, by this letter is, to testify pub

licly the esteem and respect I have for you, and to convince you how much I am, sir, yours, &c.

METHOD.-I take a paper book of what size I please and divide the two first pages that face one another, by parallel lines, into five and twenty equal parts, every fifth line black, the others red. I then cut them perpendicularly by other lines from the top to the bottom of the page, as you may see in the table prefixed. I put about the middle of each five spaces one of the twenty letters I design to make use of, and, a little forward of each space, the five vowels, one below another, in their natural order. This is the index to the whole volume, how big soever it may be.

The index being made after this manner, I leave a margin in all the other pages of the book, of about the largeness of an inch, in a volume in folio, or a little larger, and in a less volume smaller in proportion.

If I would put any thing in my common place book, I find out a head to which I may refer it. Each head ought to be some important and essential word to the matter in hand, and in that word regard is to be had to the first letter and the vowel that follows it; for upon these two letters depends all the use of the index.

I omit three letters of the alphabet, as of no use to me, viz. K, Y, W, which are supplied by C, I, U, that are equivalent to them. I put the letter Q, which is always followed by U, in the fifth space of Z. By throwing Q last in my index, I preserve the regularity of my index, and diminish not in the least its extent; for it seldom happens that there is any head begins with Zu; I have found none in the five and twenty

years that I have used this method. If, nevertheless, it be necessary, nothing hinders but that one may make a reference after Qu, provided it be done with any kind of distinction; but for more exactness a place may be assigned for Qu below the index, as I have formerly done. When I meet with any thing that I think fit to put into my common placebook, I first find a proper head. Suppose, for example, that the head be Epistola, I look into the index for the first letter and the following vowel, which in this instance are Ei, if in the space marked Ei there is any number that directs me to the page designed for words that begin with an E, and whose first vowel, after the initial letter is i; I must then write under the word Epistola, in that page, what I have to remark. I write the head in large letters, and begin a little way out into the margin, and I continue on the line, in writing what I have to say. I observe constantly this rule, that only the head appears in the margin, and that it be continued on, without ever doubling the line in the margin, by which means the heads will be obvious at first sight.

If I find no number in the index, in the space Ei, I look into my book for the first backside of a leaf that is not written on, which, in a book where there is yet nothing but the index, must be page 2. I write then, in my index, after Ei the number 2; and the head Epistola at the top of the margin of the second page, and all that I put under that head, in the same page. From that time the class Ei is wholly in possession of the second and third pages. They are to be employed only

on words that begin with an E, and whose nearest vowel is an i.

The reason why I begin always at the top of the backside of a leaf, and assign to one class two pages that face one another, rather than an entire leaf, is, because the heads of the class appear all at once, without the trouble of turning over a leaf.

Every time that I would write a new head, I look first in my index for the characteristic letters of the word, and I see, by the number that follows, what the page is that is assigned to the class of that head. If there is no number, I must look for the first backside of a page that is blank. I then set down the number in the index, and design that page, with that of the right side of the following leaf, to this new class. From this time the fourth page with the fifth that follows, are reserved for the class Ae, that is to say, for the heads that begin with an A, and whose next vowel is an E.

When the two pages designed for one class are full, I look forward for the next backside of a leaf that is blank. If it be that which immediately follows, I write at the bottom of the margin, in the page that I have filled, the letter V, that is to say, verte, turn over, as likewise the same at the top of the next page. If the pages that immediately follow are already filled by other classes, I write at the bottom of the page last filled V, and the number of the next empty backside of a page. At the beginning of that page I write down the head under which I go on with what I had to put in my common-place-book, as if it had been in

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