PREFACE. 



IN presenting this volume to the public, nothing need be said 

 more than to mention the object of its publication. 



Ten years have now passed away, since the System of the 

 universe was discovered ; at the commencement of this period, a 

 small and imperfect explanation was published, with a promise to 

 give a full exposition of the theory, as soon as practicable. But 

 unfavorable circumstances soon followed, which prevented all 

 further publication. 



The object of the present work is to give a complete explana- 

 tion of the primary principles of this System, and to show the ap- 

 plication of it to the more practical and useful branches of science, 

 in relation to the advancement of human knowledge, as well as 

 to the higher investigations of all science in connection, as dis- 

 played in the perfect laws of the Creator, developing one great 

 system of universal order and harmony. 



HARTFORD, January, 1840. 



The synopsis on the third page gives an analytic view of the 

 first great divisions of science, and will be fully explained, together 

 with a more extended analysis, in the following work. 



