VI PREFACE. 



I cut from the "Washington Chronicle," of Janu- 

 ary 13, 1870, the following very brief and lucid appre- 

 ciation of the fundamental character of Universologv. 



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Emanating from another source, it is, perhaps, better 

 adapted to give, in a few words, a first proper im- 

 pression of the whole matter, than any thing which 

 I may have said, or may be able to say, on the 

 subject : 



" UNIVERSOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SCIENCE. 

 Mr. Stephen Pearl Andrews, of New York, claims 

 to have discovered a new science, which he calls 

 Universology, and which is so inclusive in its scope 

 as to exhibit the fundamental laws which pervade 

 and govern the universe. These laws, he contends, 

 are few in number, but infinite in their application, 

 and so modified by the necessities of the various 

 domains of thought, being, or action, in which they 

 manifest themselves, as to present myriads of phe- 

 nomena apparently unrelated to each other. There 

 is, according to Mr. Andrews, really but one science, 

 what are now called sciences being merely sub- 

 sciences, or so many different manifestations of one 

 universal law, varied in its application according to 

 the sphere of its operations. 



u Just as the mathematician recognizes all the ap- 

 plications of arithmetic to be merely different ways, 

 for different purposes, of adding numbers to or sub- 

 tracting them from each other ; just as he sees in the 

 pair of scales, the pair of scissors, and the propul- 

 sion of a boat by an oar or a paddle, precisely the 

 same principle, the lever, but so necessarily modi- 



