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livered by Stephen Pearl Andrews. It purported to 

 be upon the Unity of the Sciences, but it was, in fact, 

 the first public announcement and exposition before 

 the scientific world of the nature of what Mr. An- 

 drews claims to be a new science, the most important 

 of the sciences, and a science inclusive of and under- 

 lying all the other sciences. From time to time, 

 during the last five or ten years, the public have 

 been made aware, through partial announcements or 

 intimations, that Mr. Andrews was devoting himself 

 to an unusual series of scientific and philosophic in- 

 vestigations which looked to the discovery of some 

 recondite ground of unity between all the sciences. 

 A series of articles by him and by his coadjutor, 

 Edward B. Freeland, published in The Continental 

 Monthly, three or four years ago, upon branches of 

 the subject, attracted considerable attention. The 

 New Science, or that which is claimed to be such, is 

 denominated UNIVERSOLOGY. One of the branches 

 of the discovery is said to be the basis of a new 

 Scientific Universal Language, which, it is supposed, 

 will be ultimately the vernacular of the world. The 

 lecture, or entertainment, of last evening consisted 

 mainly of readings from the Introduction to the 

 Fundamental Exposition of the New Science, which, 

 we understand, is now in type, and will be forthcom- 

 ing at an early day, as a bulky volume filled with 

 diagrams and demonstrations. The introduction is 

 in turn made up of a series of papers or special in- 

 troductions by five or six other writers than Mr. 

 Andrews, who have studied, and more or less tlior- 



