THE 7 LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES Which are Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy.... GRAMMAR is the science which teaches us to express our ideas in appropriate words, which we may afterward beautify and adorn by means of RHETORIC ; while Logic instructs us how to think and reason with propriety, and to make language subordinate to thought. ARITHMETIC, which is the science of computing by numbers, is absolutely essential, not only to a thorough knowledge of all mathematical science, but also to a proper pursuit of our daily avocations. GEOMETRY or the application of ARITHMETIC to sensible quantities, is of all sciences the most important, since by it we are enabled to measure and survey the globe that we inhabit. Its principles extend to other spheres; and, occupied in the contemplation and measurement of the sun, moon, and heavenly bodies, constitute the science of ASTRONOMY.... and, lastly, when our minds are filled, and our thoughts enlarged, by the contemplation of all the wonders which these sciences open to our view, MUSIC comes forward, to soften our hearts and cultivate our affections by its soothing influences.
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