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22 elements of the Higher Logic, to those unacquainted with the notation of Algebra, by the same methods as were used of old in schools of Free-Masonry and of Prophecy. Messrs. Benjamin Betts and Howard Hinton are creating a simple system of representation, by the use of which the study of Logic by diagrams will some day be carried much further than has ever yet been possible. In this Chapter I propose to give some idea of the elements of the Science which teaches geometrically the laws of mental Pulsation.

A stone, escaping from a sling, exhibits tangential motion, overcoming the counteracting force of the string. According to modern definition, tangential momentum is not, properly speaking, a Force.

"Let knowledge grow from more to more, yet more of reverence in us dwell;" reverence for the Light vouchsafed to those who had not our advantages in the way of technical knowledge. To the thinker of the far back ages, these were the facts presented as a basis for speculation:—

If he dropped a stone from his hand, something made it fall at once, straight towards the earth. If he put it in a string and whirled it, something prevented its either falling as far as the string would allow, or yielding quite freely to the pull of the string. If it escaped from the string, something made it fly, not straight to the earth, but off towards the distant horizon. What were these rival somethings? Were they warring dæmons? And was his string a magic implement which altered the balance of power between these unseen personalities?

If the thinker was a Hebrew Prophet, his doctrine of Unity provided him with an answer. The various