EXTRACT II. 



THOUGHTS ON THE UNION, OR ONENESS, OF THE 

 PHYSICAL AND THE METAPHYSICAL THROUGH- 

 OUT THE UNIVERSE. 



THAT there is, and can be, only one universe, should now go 

 without saying ; it always, however, has tacitly been, and 

 is still held by exponents of both departments of know- 

 ledge physical and metaphysical from the earliest period 

 of their history, that there are two, and each of these 

 departments has acted towards the other as if it alone 

 had any existence in truth. That this has been so has 

 militated to some, we would say a great, extent against 

 the general march of truth, as opposed to the advance 

 of particular knowledge ; it therefore seems that the 

 respective points to which these two departments of 

 knowledge have advanced, being now more nearly re- 

 lated in regard to contiguity and character of attainment 

 than they have ever before been, it might well be with 

 advantage to both, and to truth in general, if efforts were 

 made to blend the structures of the two into one fabric, 

 and, in future, that the progress of the truth as a whole 

 should be made the goal of research. 



Metaphysical truth for a long time made progress with- 

 out the aid of physical help, while physical truth, a much 

 later subject of research, has advanced with " leaps and 

 bounds," until she is parallel with the former, the two 

 now occupying contiguous grounds, and necessitating, 

 if both are to succeed in making further progress along 

 closely related paths, that a combined regime of "give and 

 take" should be observed between them, in order that 



