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crl-11610	Richmond, Phyllis A.	The Future of Generalized Systems of Classification	1963-08-31	7	.pdf	application/pdf	4541	227	59	College and Research Libraries Th~ Future of Generalized Systems of Classification IT IS FASHIONABLE at present to dismiss the future development of generalized classification as if there could be no such thing-as if no synthesis were ever pos- , sible again because no one can see any unifying factor or factors in the prolifer- ation of subjects with which we have to deal. The only fault, a very human one present in every generation, is that impatient men grow hopeless or even • 1 George Gaylord Simpson, The Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natt,ral tHis - tory, LXXXV (October 1945), 22-24 . .	cache/crl-11610.pdf	txt/crl-11610.txt