INTRODUCTION. 



1. An effort is made, in the body of this work, to 

 give a very incipient, inductive, and simple presenta- 

 tion of the newly discovered Science of the Uni- 

 verse. It is thought, however, that it will not be 

 inappropriate to make in this Introduction a some- 

 what more formal Scientific Statement of the general 

 character of Universology. 



2. There are, it is discovered, only Three Funda- 

 mental PKINCIPLES in the Universe. These are prop- 

 erly named UNISM, DUISM, and TKINISM, because 

 they are derived from, and stand definitely related 

 to, the numbers ONE, Two, and THKEE, respectively. 

 (Unu?, Duo, and Tres are the Latin words for ONE, 

 Two, and THREE, and furnish the namings for these 

 Three Primordial Principles.) 



3. It is, however, convenient to speak, at times, of 

 other special aspects of Being as Principles, but these 

 will be all found to be mere Branchings of one or 

 another of the Three Basis Principles just stated. 



4. The first two of these three Principles, UNISM 

 and DUISM, crop out and reappear under many 

 forms, and, in the absence, heretofore, of any suf- 

 ciently compendious Generalization, they have re- 



