GY, and which are fundamental in every
Department of the Universe and in the Universe as a whole, namely: _The
Principle of Unism_ (from the Latin _unus_, _one_), the _Spirit_ of the
Number _One_, the Principle of _Undifferentiated_, _Unanalyzed_,
_Agglomerative_ Unity; and _The Principle of_ DUISM (from the Latin
_duo_, _two_), the _Spirit_ of the Number _Two_, the Principle of
_Differentiation_, _Analysis_, _Separation_, _Apartness_, or
_Plurality_, typically embodied in _Two_, the first division of the
Primitive Unity, and especially representative of the Principle of
Disunity, the essence of all division or plurality. _One_, in the Domain
of _Number_, and UNISM, in the Department of Primordial Principles,
correspond, it must be added, with _The Absolute_ (the Undifferentiated
and Unconditioned), as one of the Aspects of Being; while _Two_, in the
Domain of _Number_, and _Duism_, among Primordial Principles, are allied
with _The Relative_ (the Differentiated and Conditioned), of which
latter Domain _Something_ and _Nothing_ are the two Prime Factors. The
distinction between _One_ and _Two_, or their analogous Aspects of
Being, _Absolute_ and _Relative_, is, therefore, prior to that between
_Something_ and _Nothing_, because _Something_ and _Nothing_ are two
terms of _The Relative_ (_Two_), which has first to be itself
discriminated from _The Absolute_ (_One_) before it can be sub-divided
into these two factors.

While the nature of this discrimination into _Something_ and _Nothing_
may be sufficiently intelligible to the student of Metaphysics, it may
not be so to the Reader unaccustomed to Philosophical Speculation. For
the purpose, therefore, of rendering it somewhat clearer, I will point
out the manner in which it exhibits itself in respect to the
Constitution of the External World and elsewise.

The Totality of all material objects and substances is the _Positive_
Material Universe. This is contained in _Space_, which is the _Negative_
Material Universe. Compoundly the two, _Matter_ and _Space_, are the
whole Material Universe, as to the Parts or Constituent Factors of which
it consists.

Theoretically, and in one, and by no means an unimportant sense, the
_Zero_-Element or _Nothing_-side of the Universe or of a given
Department of Being, is one whole half, or an equal hemisphere of the
Totality of Being. Thus, for example, _Zero_ (0) in the usage of the
Arabic Numbers, while it is represented in an obscure wa