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oughly mastered the new science, and who belong, it 

 is said, to an incipient University which the new 

 scientific discovery has already been the means of 

 organizing. The claim is certainly sufficiently ex- 

 traordinary to excite general attention, and the wri- 

 ters in question, it must be confessed, give the im- 

 pression of being men who understand themselves 

 and their subject ; but a mere introductory statement 

 is necessarily general, and for that reason, in a sense, 

 vague. The exact nature and scientific validity of 

 this supposed discovery of universal scientific prin- 

 ciples could only be judged of after the most thor- 

 ough opportunity should have been granted to make 

 the exhibit, and it is to be hoped that the American 

 Institute which has been established to render pre- 

 cisely this kind of service to the community, will not 

 fail to get to the bottom of this extraordinary claim." 

 From the N. T. Tribune (April 3, 1868). 



245. " A paper was then read by Mr. Stephen Pearl 

 Andrews, upon a new science, under the name of 

 UNIVERSOLOGY, which had received his attention, with 

 that of others, for the past five years. The gentle- 

 man first spoke of the embarrassment he felt regard- 

 ing the proper method of presenting his subject, as a 

 generalization would perhaps only expose him to the 

 charge of entertaining speculative opinions ; while, 

 on the other hand, he could not be expected to gire 

 an exposition of the science in the space of one 

 evening, as the claims of Universology were of un- 

 paralleled extent and importance. He stated that 



