A Sketch of Universal Wisdom

THE GROUND PLAN

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...can be (including newly discovered inventions and those yet to be discovered), we wish to be gathered here: so that whenever a mention or thought of any matter arises, sufficient information regarding it may be found here.

XIV. The Form of this Book must be universal harmony original Greek: "παναρμονία" (panharmonia), that is, Universal Harmony, or the consonance and consensus of all things with all things. For observations regarding things, however useful, which have been handed down here and there, are not to be heaped together here in a mass; rather, the intimate nature of the things themselves must be uncovered, through such craftsmanship that, just as in God the author of things original Latin: "Deo rerum authore", and in His Works and His Words, there is no dissonance; so in our concepts, no discrepancy may be left remaining: namely, by finding the central points original Latin: "mediis rerum centris" of things, in which even extremes and opposites may meet and cease their conflict. By this means, it is hoped that whatever different men think and do in different ways (so long as it is done reasonably), even if they are mutually ignorant of one another, fail to understand each other, or even oppose one another, they may here come into agreement and harmony; once the streams of all thoughts and actions have been led back to their true and pu- The text continues on the next page with "pure."