32 NATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. 



Nature is Unismal, Science Duismal, and Art Trinismal, 

 in character and degree. 



48. But how can it be demonstrated that among 

 the thousand similar distributions which are possible, 

 Nature, Science and Art are the most appropriate to 

 be regarded as the practically Primitive, and All- 

 inclusive, Aspects, of the Universe of Being ? 



49. The assumption that this is true will be suf- 

 ficiently proven or sustained by the following con- 

 siderations : Nature is the Substance or Subject-Matter 

 treated of by Science. Science is the Systematized 

 Knowledge which the Human Mind attains to, of 

 Nature, the Form, in other words, which Nature, as a 

 Substance, assumes under the Reflective Action of the 

 thinking mind ; and Art is the same primitive Nature or 

 Substance, externally or actually reacted upon, sub- 

 sequently to reflection, AND RE-IMPRESSED BY Science ; or it 

 is the Mental or Ideal Form, reproduced in Nature, from 

 and by the Mind. It is, therefore, the result of Mind 

 working upon Nature ; or the Progeny begotten of 

 Nature, as Feminine, by Science or the Thinking 

 Mind, as Masculine or Male. 



50. But all manifestations of Intelligence or of 

 Quasi-Intelligence, even those witnessed in Nature, are 

 the, at least, apparent, result of Mind, which, therefore, 

 when it thus occurs independently of Man, is attri- 

 buted to God, and assimilated to our own conscious 

 action on Nature, which is Art. All Evolution, Move- 

 ment, or On-going in Nature, is such manifestation of 

 Qtfasi-Intelligence, and is, therefore, also Art ; or 

 may, in other words, be properly embraced in the <\r- 



