INTRODUCTION. 



which results, in tarn, from this constant re-echoing 9 

 but in new and specific relations, of the same three 

 Primitive Principles, (Unism, Duism, and Trinism), 

 throughout all Domains. (62, ). 



9. The first and simplest action of the human 

 mind, when it begins to attend, is governed by the 

 perception of Analogy ; but as the LAW of Analogy 

 is not then understood, the result is a riot of the 

 imagination, and a total want of the spirit of scien- 

 tific exactitude. Thus we may suppose some early 

 speculator, fascinated by the idea of a natural har- 

 mony of numbers, affirming that there must be 24 

 chemical elements because there are twenty-four 

 hours in the day (12.) This loosely generalizing 

 method of reasoning was The Anticipatory Method in 

 Science (improperly dignified as " Deductive "). In 

 the technicalities of Universology it is strictly de- 

 scribed as The Unismal Stage of the Scientific 

 Mental Evolution ; (allied in a variety of senses with 

 Primality and the Number One.) 



10. The Baconian or Inductive Scientists, rightly 

 disgusted and repelled by such vague guessing in the 

 name of Science, instituted the Method of exact ob- 

 servation, which now prevails in the scientific world, 

 and which has led to such grand results ; but which 

 has also the bad effect of making of our Scientific 

 men, for the most part, mere Specialists, in a great 

 degree incapable of any broad or generalizing idea, 

 and even somewhat so of applying their own attri- 

 bute of precision in any other than the exact direc- 

 tion in which they may have adjusted the tube of 



