the definition it may be said to assign it also to its order, genus, and

species. Classification is useful in public speech in narrowing the issue to a

desired phase. It is equally valuable for showing a thing in its relation to

other things, or in correlation. Classification is closely akin to Definition

and Division.

 

This question of the liquor traffic, sirs, takes its place beside the grave

moral issues of all times. Whatever be its economic significance--and who is

there to question it--whatever vital bearing it has upon our political

system--and is there one who will deny it?--the question of the licensed saloon

must quickly be settled as the world in its advancement has settled the

questions of constitutional government for the masses, of the opium traffic, of

the serf, and of the slave--not as matters of economic and political expediency

but as questions of right and wrong.

 

=Analysis= separates a subject into its essential parts. This it may do by

various principles; for example, analysis may follow the order of time (geologic

eras), order of place (geographic facts), logical order (a sermon outline),

order of increasing interest, or procession to a climax (a lecture on 20th

century poets); and so on. A classic example of analytical exposition is the

following:

 

In philosophy the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are

circumferred to nature, or are reflected or reverted upon himself. Out of which

several inquiries there do arise three knowledges: divine philosophy, natural