-that those Crowds which combine a maximum of strength with a minimum of responsibility probably constitute the forces most likely to be engaged in the coming conflict, and are, therefore, the best philosophic studies at the moment:

-that the Labor Crowd under the leadership of the Britisher Gompers has the physical strength and the ethical weakness to make it eligible, and should it undertake to exemplify the American Crowd under the leadership of Roosevelt in the Phillipine Islands it might make use of the dictum: "Watch our smoke," which would then be as apposite to the American home as it was to the Phillipine home; homes that Phillipino and American alike, 'made out of their own love, the center of their world, and its paradise:''

--that the 'Sanction'' is evidently bringing to a close the terms of the existence of the greatest of all counterfeits and consequent there to, humanity's greatest curse,— the schemes and plans of Christianity, considered as authoritative, whereupon the "Right of Might,'' which is proper to the individual, and to him alone, will be restored to its normal function, and the ''Might of Right'' will be recognized and respected as representing the "Law where Right is the Fixed Order:''

-that following this destructive period the study of the "Philosophy of the Home," in the Homes of the Home by common but industrious minds, and in the home of the homes by erudite intellects, will install an impersonal mathematical and humane authority instead of the discredited and displaced personal theistical and inhuman authority:

-that then the intelligent mountebanking home-destroying politician, having lost his most powerful support, will retire in favor of the intellectual interpreting homebuilding statseman who will be supported by the Law's

most efficient independent agent-The Mother in the homes of the Home.

The study of the Philosophy of the Home, in the homes of the Home, requires but little more than logical appetence combined with mental industry. The Grammar grade of the Public Schools furnish all of the technical preparation needed, and the Public Libraries the research stock. The haphazard use of the terms so distinctly localized in the "Digest',-intelligence, intellect, and intelligibility with their correlates, actual, ideal, and real, et al., is interdicted; also the term theoretical. A theory is not a conjecture, nor a fancy, but a diagrammatically intelligible demonstration. "The business of a theory of phenomena,'' says Prof. Royce, "is the arrangement of systems of facts in ideal serial orders, according to concepts which themselves determine both the ordering of each series and the precise relations of its members to one another. Spencer's theory of evolution does not determine the relations of the essential processes of evolution to one another, does not define their inner unity, and does not enable us to conceive a series of types of evolutionary processes in orderly relations to one another." Herbert Spencer. p. 116. Prof. Royce, himself evidently meant 'real'' where he says ''ideal'. Ideal means ought to, and implies choice; real means must, and implies necessity. The formula is a theoretical "Code'' of Natural Law; The Digest'' is a theoretical application of the two laws of the "Code." There is nothing actual-ly intelliligent, nor ideal-ly intellectual about either; nothing conscious, nor conscientious, but they are, alike, real-ly intelligible, and unconscious. The intent of their content is expressible in the language of the unconscious,—mathematics. This language is diagrammatical (sign-like), not dialectical (speech-like), but it is inter-pretable, literally, between plus brokerage. Their usefulness very largely depends upon the conscientiousness of the broker,

that is to say, whether he is an independent agent, and, therefore, fit, or whether he is a member of some Crowd, and, thereby, a misfit. Being a demonstration of the principle of autogeneity the formula is self-explanatory. Its method is that of the organic in general, and constitutes its intent. The way in which it does what it does comprises the content of its intent. In the light of the "Digest'', which is a demonstrative application of the method in the analysis of all mind, intellect corresponds to the path-way of the polarized horizontal line, and represents the social organism, which, like all organisms, has an internal medium, its generative organ, the actuating intelligent senses, and an external medium, its directive organ, the realizing intelligible principles. "The path of a moving point is a line of some kind. The line is said to be generated by the point, which is called the generatrix of the line. Any fixed point, which guides the motion of the generatrix, is called the directrix.'' The Fixed Order'' is represented negatively, by the absence of change in the direction, and "Right'' positively by the straightness of the line.

Thus the self-explanatory properties and powers of the the unconscious formula consist in the theoretical (diagrammatically intelligible) unfoldment of its intent, its purpose,-Normalization, or the self production of its own Code, which explains how it does what it does. And, hence, since ‘'a thing is what it does,'' this thing (normalization) has for its office the spatially authoritative explanation of "what it all means'', namely, that those architectural and architectonical conditions from which and of which the Home is the emergent, constitute the significant all, for the rationally facultated man.

From the view point of the "Code'' the operations of the unconscious "Law'' have the characteristics of an experiment, whereof the rationally faculated man is the conscriptively interested oberserver.

As the two principles, Independence, and Dependence generalize respectively, into the organic terms Civilization and Subjugation, so the principle Correspondence generalizes into the organic term Computation. This is easily realized, or com-prehended when dichotomization (exhaustive division) is employed to elucidate its meaning"together-mutually-answering," being the given quotient.

Now these Prefatory Lessons ought to bring into the purview of the independent thinker and reasoner the correspondence between the three departments of philosophy -that of the Crowd, that of the Home, and that of the Schools. How they 'together, mutually, answer'' questions concerning the ''order of things."

The extraordinary energy of the American Crowds. will probably place them in advance of the coming general "clash'' between the whole body of crowds. The official destroyer of the uncompromising inexorable ''Sanction'' is the Crowd of crowds, and the use of brown, yellow, and black men for targets, and that of their women and children for the Camp'' torture, by the "White Terror,'' is beyond all question a fully matured occasion for the use of the Laws" compelling hand.

Computative operations among codified principles, that is to say, instances where they "together-mutuallyanswer'' questions, on their own iniatiative, and using the strictly diagrammatical language within the Code'', and between it and the ''Digest'', will constitute the more properly Introductory Lessons which ought to follow.

Prefatory Lessons In

A Mechanical Philosophy.

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The purport of the formula herewith, entitled A MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY, is that it intelligibly and diagrammatically codifies the "Fixed Order'', usually referred to as Natural Law.

The modern definition of theory, namely, that "it must be intelligible and diagrammatical, or it has no title to the name theory," makes the formula a theory providing it can be proven to be intelligible.

Moreover, since 'philosophy is completely unified knowledge,'' the formula, if valid, i. e., intelligibly provable, and mathematically authoritative, it must be changeless like the "Fixed Order' which it purports to demonstrate, and, hence, a theory of knowledge.

The author has put in twenty-one years of his avocational time in the development of the code, and the two digests from it, beginning in the winter of 1885-86. The formula itself being practically completed in 1897, but the digests The Normalization of Mind," or the organic method applied, (Philosophical psychology), and 'Algebraical Form in Ethics,'' have only just been

finished.