LOGIC i47 



xve are to obtain Truth, as the knowledge and Science of Evo- 

 lution makes it possible to understand the use of them. 

 Therefore to follow me through Book II., it is necessary for 

 the reader to grasp the mathematical and logical nature of 

 God's Trinity, and reduce it to a mathematical order and 

 sequence, or he cannot calculate truth from falsehood of my 

 Hypothesis. I may here refer to Table IV., which gives to 

 the reader a mathematical formula by which to check off the 

 other Tables involved, and ascertain if the trinities they con- 

 tain are perfect truths, or will become perfect during evolu- 

 tion, and those which will last into eternity. And it has been 

 my aim in this treatise to subject the Hypothesis it contains 

 to as accurate a logical and mathematical arrangement as pos- 

 sible, so as to enable my reader to review each case as im- 

 partially as possible and from a purely abstract point. 



This necessarily entails the expression of many an 

 abstract theory and idea that may or may not be correct, but 

 all of which must be viewed purely from their abstract point 

 of view if the reader is to be placed in a position to use the 

 mathematical facts they contain in a purely logical manner; 

 and to enable him to do so it has been necessary to present to 

 him many phases of thought which, though correct in the 

 abstract, must be greatly altered and adjusted before they can 

 be used as the concrete forces to create practical and useful 

 concurrent forces applicable to our lives and existences. But 

 unless we first find the primary forces and causes of events, 

 it is impossible to arrive at a correct and true understanding 

 of the results we wish to attain or desire to produce in the 

 future. The action of Logic in mental work corresponds to 

 the action of the chemist, who must first obtain the elementary 

 chemicals before he can combine them in a variety of propor- 

 tions to produce different compounds by chemical combination. 



In the same way all my mind can do is to bring the 

 different facts down to their elementary forms, place them in 

 logical sequence, and leave them to clever and more enlightened 

 minds of wiser students to evolve from them by study and 

 controversy a more perfect whole. It therefore follows that 

 there must be of necessity many errors, or at least necessity 

 for further proof in a work of this kind that knowledge and 

 study will in the course of time correct, but without the pos- 

 session of the abstract conception it would not be possible to 



