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fiecl in its application, in each case, as to be unrecog- 

 nized by the superficial observer, so Mr. Andrews 

 claims that all the so-called sciences, abstract and 

 concrete and, if we understand him, all arts, all 

 things, are inter-related are, in fact, but so many 

 varied manifestations of one Supreme Law, or God's 

 "Will. And it is this law and its boundless opera- 

 tions that Mr. Andrews claims to have discovered 

 and is about to publish. Such a discovery, if really 

 made, would so far transcend any past achievement 

 of man, and seems altogether so doubtful, that the 

 most sanguine progressive scientist might well be 

 excused for receiving the announcement with an 

 incredulous smile, were it not for the fact that the 

 New York papers contain a highly complimentary 

 card, signed by Professor Youmans, President Bar- 

 nard, of Columbia College, Judge Daly, ex-Mayor 

 Opdyke, Parke Godwin, and a dozen other equally 

 eminent men, who have partially investigated Mr. 

 Andrews' claims, calling upon him to publish his 

 discoveries." 



It is evident that the discovery of Universology 

 will not only exert a revolutionary influence on the 

 positive body of systematized knowledge in the 

 world, as such, that is to say upon science itself, but 

 equally upon the Art of Communicating Scientific 

 Knowledge ; that it will, in other words, reconstitute 

 the whole business of Education. It will establish 

 Unity of System in the Educational Domain, for the 

 world, and will be to the rapid extension of learning 

 what the rail-road is for travel, and the telegraph for 



