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(title 17, U. S. Code).
ANDREWS, STEPHEN PEARL. The Basic Outline of Universology. An Introduction to the Newly Discovered Science of the Universe; Its Elementary Principles; and the First Stages of Their Development in the Special Sciences. Together with Preliminary Notices of Alwato, the Newly Discovered Scientific Universal Language, Resulting from the Principles of Universology. New York: Dion Thomas, 1872. 1st ed. Thick 8vo. 109, 764, 2 pp. Orig. cloth. Very good. An index occupies 124 pp. With a list of subscribers (133). $950.00
Andrews' most ambitious book, the distillation of his philosophy. "In it he elaborated his doctrine of cosmical analogues, relating music and mathematics, theism and atheism, the horizontal and the perpendicular, the absolute and the relative. In it he flew to the empyrean on the wings of the spirit of Unism, Duism, and Trinism. According to the author, this was the 'gate' through which 'mankind may pass ultimately to the Reconciliative Harmony of Ideas.'" --Stern, The Pantarch, 123. On the title is the signature of an early owner, dated February 24, 1872.