6 INTRODUCTION. 







sion of truth crossing all the lines of existing knowl- 

 edges, and combining them, as levels cross perpen- 

 diculars, or as chords cross and unite various radii of 

 a circle, and so as thereby to exert a new and 

 regulative influence over all the future achievements 

 of mind. Such a discovery is now made, and constitutes 

 Universolocjy. Analogy so understood, is the Anti- 

 podes of Analogy as first vaguely intuited, and to 

 which the Inductive Scientific World so properly 

 opposed itself. But, nevertheless, it is peculiarly 

 liable to be confounded, at the first blush, with the 

 earlier and imperfect method, and, indeed, will con- 

 tinue to be so, until thorough investigation shall 

 have dissipated this erroneous impression. It will 

 be supposed that the same objections lie against it as 

 to that earliest and simplest stage of scientific rea- 

 soning, from wliicli it is, however, only more remote than 

 the Second or Inductive Stage itself. It is, indeed, 

 merely the larger, and, as it were, the final applica- 

 tion of the Inductive Principle, culminating in the 

 establishment of a Legitimate Universal Deductive 

 Method, in aid of, while yet, in part, transcending 

 Induction. 



12. (This new Stage of Science is technically the 

 Descending Wing of the Duismal Stage of the Scien- 

 tific Mental Evolution lapping over upon the Trinis- 

 mal or Integral Method and governing it, as Induc- 

 tion arose, at the other extreme, out of the Unismal 

 Stage. B. O. c. 49, t. 136.) This Phase of Science 

 is new, and can only be rightly judged of by those 

 who make themselves competent, ly the specific study 



