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minate Correspondences. Abstract PRINCIPLES, as Ori- 

 gins, repeat Points; and LAWS, inherent in Being, cor- 

 respond in like manner with Lines. Logic, in the 

 grand sense, as the Science of Laws and Principles, is 

 thus also swept into the same circle of Correspondences 

 or Analogies. Spencer reckons Logic and The Mathe- 

 matics as the only Abstract Sciences. Univer- 

 sological Scientology is a Third ; and remains to be 

 demonstrated to the Scientific world. LAWS and 

 PRINCIPLES, are, then, another special variety of Ab- 

 stractions. 



169. It will be a first step towards comprehending 

 these mysteries of Abstraction, and one of the least 

 difficult ones, to realize that a Unit ; not any thing 

 whatsoever, (as an apple, or a block) ; but a purely 

 Abstract Unit of Number, is a Thought-Point, in the 

 mind ; nothing more and nothing less than that. It 

 is not (necessarily), even in imagination, posited ox put 

 at any particular place in External Space, but it is 

 nevertheless posited as a point of thought, rationally, 

 or before the mind's eye ; in, as it were, an Internal 

 Thought-Space, or "in the Mind." These exceeding 

 subtleties or refinements of Speculation on the Echoes 

 or Correspondences of what happens in different 

 Spheres of Being ; as, here, bettueen Number and Form 

 in their very Elements ; loom up, in the higher depart- 

 ments of Universology, into great importance. The 

 subject is only introduced here, incidentally, to aid 

 in furnishing an idea of Abstractness or The Abstract; 

 which extends to and covers the whole field of those 

 concei^tions which are so fiiic that they only exist Bz- 



