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Nsw YoRx. Feb l. 1860.
IN advance of any published statement in this
country. am able 10 inform you that the Apple
tons are about 10 issue a new weekly journal, To-
b.. devoted To- science and literature. Professor
T. l. Y1urans. well known rs an author and
lecturer. and n the American editor Of Herbert
Spencer works, Is To edit the journal- His in
innate relations with men OF science abroad cna-
BE him to enlist many Of them contributors
Huxley. Spencer, Darwin, and Tyndall are cx-
pectcd to send papers from time to time To the
new weekly; and the best American scientific
TALENT will be Iaid under contribution The con-
tributious Of the accomplished editor will also be
on. of it, attractive features.
The department. Of fiction will be filed by Vic
tor Hugo. who contributes Il SERIAL story to be
called =. l;y Order OF the King Immense sums
have been paid at home for the French copyright
Of this novel. which promises, judging from the
advance sheets, to De a work Of great power and
interest. APPIetous' Weekly baesei by the re
sources Of this great Publishing hoIse, which is
probably the vcalthic-t and the most enterIrisfn2
in the country, ean hardly fail to prove great
Success
There was never time when science bore
more interesting aspect than now. The new
iurnal WIN have a vast field Of discussion in tie
German-E English discoveries Of the unity Of force,
it, conservation and eorrclations.-in the wonder
fHl spectrum investigations Of Kirchner and 9th
ers, in the problems Of social science, and in
hundred other flst-srOwing branches of knowl-
edge.
Then there IS n great body Of thought that be-
gins 10 claim a place among the seienees.-the
speculatiOus Of thinkers who not yet iden-
tifed with any of the schools Of seiencc. \ vast
amoant Of L1feaf d0ngR awaits, in this conImu-
nily. it, time for fuller expression.
It l. n passion Of mine to get at these obscure
Guutain heads, AMI test the quality Of springs
that are ~ Yet almost unknown. OF these the
most rcmarkablc that 1 have found il one for
which the rank Of 4 new science is claimed 1t
il called .s UuivcrsoIogy, "a hybrid term, yet
one that i not more Objectionable than the word
soci9tggB. which has now become current
think the readers Of the CoNufEEcGiL Will be sur
prscd % learn that we have n man in New York
who announces the discovery OF the science Of
sreacss, the very underlying principles of the
Universe itself. The claim Of .. Universology -
i nothing less than this. IT. author, Mr.. ;. T.
Andrews of this city, has devoted thirty years 10
the development Of his SYSTEM lie aihrns that
there il a science Of principles strictly universal,
as distinguished from the special sciences, and
including. them. This idea has never been enter
ttiued with clcarucsss heretofore The scientific
men, he says, are specialists. Their labOrs are
a. if n colony OF learned ants had undertaken TO
investigate the human body. One section Of the
little community dcyotcs itself to the examination
Of fngcr-nail, another to that Of the lobe Of an
elr: others 20 that Of various other parts re-
lrJed sinsIy: bat IL has never occurred 20 them
% consider the fact that all Of these difercHf
parts are tie constituents Of q man. The first
thing, logically speaking, in orler to know any
thin. rightly OF these particular subjects, i the
general design anil the cvuct outlay Of the man
himself This inclusive and final science OF
sciences. Mr. Andrews Ia- developed in n book Of
500 pcscs- thoroughly indexcd It i now pass
iaS through the press Of Dion Thomas, 142 Mas
SAN street. It claims to base all known sciences.
a1i indeed al possible sciences, upon exact laws
that are universally applicable, equally in the
dDmaius ot matter anil OF mind. have seen 4
private copy OF the work AMI find il 10 be an ex-
truoriinary scheme Of philosophy. The writer
ha- given lifetime Of systematic thought to it,
pruducti,n md II wOuld be str,insc If it should
noI tend 40 least % unity the sciences 10 Justify
The iutuiti1n- or poets anil philosophers who
have had gIimrecs of universal law. % establish
even troTc- anil metaphor upDu a scientific basis,
and % show that all nature produces an idcn-
tical impres-i5u.''
One practical outgrDwth of 8. Jniverz1locv.'
a. eiIimed by yIr. Andrews. j. the discovery OF a
scientifically con. .tructcI language with unfvcr-
al alphabet. The erurum1r and vocabulary Of
this ure % n great extent already elaborated.
Who shall say that the day or wonders T. gone
b.. when claims like these ar. put forth to n
pre-occupied world2 Is T. % be hoped that the
new philosophy Will at least get a fair hearing,
Thinkers viii find IL worth their study
Poetry as well ~ philosophy i well represented
int1wu ju-r now. james Russell Lowell j. spend
ing few dnys ~ the guest OF Samuel Ward oF
this city. Nr. Lowell comes seldom % New
York, ant ha. comparatively few acqusintanccs
% this rro-aic city. but while he j. here he i
kePt diligently dining with our hferat,-Bryaut,
tanch, Curtis. TucCrrJnau, and Others. never
stw Lowell looking better than be looks to-day.
Tie hl- gained IN flesh considerably since the
P''HcltiIn og che engraving that has made hi
Lre Ermiutr. Ile will De fifty wears oil on the
III ot February. lie said o. a friend 0f mine
te other dav, 90 ee'sbrute next month my golden
welding with Time" Ile wus walking through
hudson square anI boxing, at the newly imported
English sraIl0Ws,-our latest sensation in fcatt-
''s, AMI now quite feature in our city parks
iney are no, sp pretty our home bir-i-,' he
N'l a'ter studying tbcu eITefIily LDwCll'- r.
'' "'l-tziEf articles, My t:arleu AcIIaint-
D'e and 81 'CIufrsceasiJu IN Foreigner have
'''raetei considerable attention abroad ni-