V1I1 PREFACE. 



the transmission of news. The future students of 

 Science, instead of coming up laboriously to some 

 imperfect mastery of the whole subject through the 

 details of two or three special Sciences, will begin in 

 the knowledge of Universal Principles, and will come 

 down upon the whole substrate mass of Scientific 

 specialties from a previously attained height of Uni- 

 versal Scientific knowledge equally applicable to 

 every domain. This subject is too large to be more 

 than alluded to in this place, but its importance 

 cannot fail to be appreciated. The masses of the 

 people, in all countries, in the future, instead of 

 arriving at a mere knowledge of the rudiments of 

 education, will possess, in an astonishing degree, 

 the theory and details of all the sciences. Science 

 will become popularized beyond any conception of 

 the possibility of such a result which has prevailed 

 hitherto. The whole people will enjoy the eleva- 

 ting influences and the new powers conferred by 

 literary and scientific acquisitions vastly be} r ond 

 what is now meant by " a liberal education." 



The discovery of this new Centralizing and Uni- 

 tary Science will demand the founding of a special 

 UNIVERSITY, vastly larger, in design, than any now or 

 ever heretofore extant, devoted to the promulgation 

 of Universal Principles, to the introduction of this 

 New System of Education for the Planet, and to 

 serve as the nucleus of a New Universal or Planetary 

 Government, which should accompany the Unification 

 of the Science and that of the Language of tho 



