So there first appeared general grammar, natural history, and the analysis of wealth, all sciences of order in thedomain of words, beings, and needs; and none of these empirical studies, new in the Classical period and co extensive with it in duration (their chronological frontiers are marked by Lancelot and Bopp, Ray and Cuvier, Petty and Ricardo, the first group writing around and the second around, could have been founded without the relation that the entire episteme of Western culture maintained at that time with a universal science of order.