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semi-scientific dream of Fourier ; more accurately 

 correspondential than Swedenborg ; more exhaust- 

 ively and minutely a Philosophy of the Sciences than 

 Spencer; more beneficently regulative of human ad- 

 ministration than all the merely experiential govern- 

 ments, and more truly religious than the church ; in 

 a word, to be Whole or Integral ; and all this, not as 

 any miracle, but as the simple and natural result 

 of recurring for First Principles to Mathematical (the 

 only certain) Origins, carrying back all possible con- 

 ceptions to this primitive source, and deriving thence, 

 by a simple and infallible deduction, the Unitary Laws 

 which permeate and regulate all the sciences. 



WHAT ARE ITS FIRST PRINCIPLES? 



234. These First Principles after Positive and 

 Negative Polarity, derived from Unity (distributed into 

 the positive numbers) and Zero are UNISM, DUISM, 

 and TRINISM, by which is meant, 1. The spirit of the 

 number One (primitive synthesis or integration, more 

 properly synstasis) ; 2. The spirit of the number 

 Two, (analysis, differentiation, variety) ; and, 3. The 

 spirit of the number Three (ultimate or teleological 

 synthesis or integration, the true synthesis). All the 

 primary mathematical notions, as of Number, Form 

 and Mechanical Action, are found in a similar manner 

 to furnish the elementary principles and illustrations 

 of, and so positively to teach All Scientific Laws, Clas- 

 sification, and Doctrine, throughout the sciences, up 

 to Sociology, Morals, and Theology. The Ordinal 

 Series of Numbers furnishes, for example, the typo 



