10 INTRODUCTION. 



properly understood by a preliminary study of Uni- 

 versology itself. In a word, in such a sphere, math- 

 ematical exactitude would refute rather than confirm 

 the claims of the New Science, so that, in such a realm, 

 nearly, about, proximately, etc., are legitimate Scientific 

 expressions. No Classification in Natural Science 

 is or can be exact, for the reason that Nature is only 

 proximately mathematical. It is only by " squeez- 

 ing " and " stretching " that she can be packed like 

 herrings in a box, within the theoretical exactitudes 

 of adjustment. Still other objections will arise, and 

 to meet these, other answers must be extracted from 

 the bowels of the New Science itself. 



13. I will illustrate, a little further, the liabilities 

 of the ordinary scientist to mistake, in judging of 

 Analogical Science. An arrangement occurs, in 

 Universology, of the Chemical Elements, by which 

 the Non-Metals are recognized as generwdtty Light, 

 Upward-tending, Aerial, and Diaphanous, and as, in 

 that sense, allied (not in any known Chemical sense, 

 but in a new sense not heretofore observed), with the 

 Atmosphere above the surface of the Earth, and so 

 with the " Face of Day," or with the Main Elevation 

 and Front aspect of the Great World-Cathedral, the 

 Dome-of-Earth-and-Heaven, and typically, or repre- 

 sentatively, therefore, with the Frontal Elevation of any 

 House, Edifice, or Tent pie : and the Metals are recog- 

 nized, on the contrary, as generically Heavy, Dark- 

 ling, Obscure, or Downward-tending, or Earthly, in 

 the same Analogical Sense, and so, in tlml sv//.sv, as 

 allied with the Subterranean and otherwise Obscure 



