2 INTRODUCTION. 



ceived a variety of narnings, fclius : UNISM is called 

 Unity, Sameness, Centralizing or Centripetal Tend- 

 ency, Gravitation, Arrival, Conjunction, Thesis or 

 Synthesis, Integration, Combination, Contraction, 

 Generality, Simplicity, etc., etc. It is the tendency 

 to unite, or towards Unity, or the manifestation of the 

 presence or results of that tendency, in thousands 

 of modes, in every sphere of Being. 



5. DUISM is called, Diversity, Difference or Variety, 

 Decentralizing or Centrifugal Tendency, Repulsion, 

 Departure, Separation, Antithesis, Analysis, Dif- 

 ferentiation, Diffusion, Expansion, Speciality, Com- 

 plexity, etc., etc. It is the tendency to disparting or 

 dividing, or the manifestation of the presence or re- 

 sults of that tendency, in thousands of modes, in 

 every sphere of Being. By its nature, it not only 

 departs from the Unism, but it also bifurcates or di- 

 vides, in departing, into Two (or more) Branches, like 

 the Tines of a fork ; and, in all senses, manifests an 

 inherent alliance with Plurality, and PKIMAKILY or TYP- 

 ICALLY ivith the number Two. 



6. TBINISM is the Principle symbolized by the 

 Totality of Being, or of any particular being. It is 

 compounded of Unism and Duism as its Factors, 

 Constituents, or Elements. Hence it is a Cardinated 

 or Hingewise Principle, Entity, or Manifestation, as 

 loetween the handle of the fork, which is One, on 

 the one hand, and the Tines of the fork, which are 

 Two (or moie), on the other hand. Trinism is, there- 

 fore, the Type or Representative of the whole Fork, 

 or other Compound and Resultant Object, and, so of 



