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STATEMENT BY THE AUTHOR, 



237. I am requested by iny publisher to give some 

 condensed account of " The Basic Outline of Univer- 

 sology." It is difficult to do this, in any small 

 compass, more explicitly than is done in the title- 

 page. The work is the result of a life-time of labor 

 devoted to the exhaustive study of all the great sub- 

 jects of human thought, and especially of those 

 which agitate the present age, culminating in specific 

 discoveries which it is believed will greatly enlarge 

 the scope of the Sciences and hasten the already 

 rapid progress of humanity. The work contains no 

 less than five distinct Introductions from the able 

 pens of as many learned gentlemen whom the devel- 

 opment of the new science has gathered around me 

 for some years past as students, and, to some ex- 

 tent, as collaborators. A preliminary exposition was 

 given by me some months since before the Polytech- 

 nic branch of the American Institute. This elicited 

 various notices from the metropolitan press, which 

 were appreciative and flattering. I prefer, to any- 

 thing which I might add, to supplement this state- 

 ment by extracts from these two sources the several 

 Introductions to the work, and the notices of the press. 

 238. The publication of a work definitely establishing 

 the Unity of the Sciences, if it be really such, must, 

 from the highest point of view, be regarded as the 

 most marked event of the age. Humanity take* a m-tv 

 departure from the time when there is a Clearly Recognised 

 Harmon if in all our Inf<-U<--f>-<il C'omr/;.'A> ts. 



December, 18GS. STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. 



