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signs as 9 digits and zero, we can write all possible 

 numbers ; and that we can know positively that we 

 have the means at command by which we can write 

 new combinations of numbers so soon as they shall occur 

 to us, although previously we may never have thought of 

 those particular combinations as possible numbers. We 

 have thus, in a sense, a mastery, through Science, 

 over immense, even over Infinite Domains of details, 

 with which, as details, we are entirely unacquainted. 

 This is the Inherent, Infinite Power and True Glory 

 of Science, and of the unmade Principles of Being as 

 contrasted with mere Facts (res gestce or things made 

 or done). This is what Science can do, and this is 

 the mode in which it transcends all ordinary ex- 

 perience and common knowledge, and even that 

 which is extraordinary, whether intuitional, inspi- 

 rational, or otherwise. 



35. Science is thus the Systematized Knowledge 

 of Principles out of which arises a Method for their 

 application in new spheres ; spheres of human inter- 

 vention which can then be rigorously modeled upon 

 the application which Nature is spontaneously mak- 

 ing of the same Principles in advance of their dis- 

 covery by man. The Multiplication Table is another 

 instance of such systematized knowledge furnishing 

 a basis and Method for the whole infinitude of prac- 

 tical mathematical operations. It gives a scientific 

 mastery over the infinite world of numerical conibi- 



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nations, within its scope, like that which the Scientific 

 Universal Alphabet will give over the representation 

 of all languages ; like that which the digits and zero 



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