CHAPTER I.
THE SCIENCE OF NUMBERS
The Science of Numbers is in no respect a modern invention. Thousands of years ago the Eastern philosophers and religionists knew and practiced it. They recognized the importance of the relationship between the name and the life of the individual, and, when the latter was seriously threatened by disease, or other misfortune, they changed the name to ward off the impending disaster.
Of course, during these scores of centuries, many changes have been made in the Science of Numbers, particularly in the methods of applying it. Students have delved deeply into its mysteries, and, by patient study, and most painstaking experiments, have succeeded in bringing it into truer harmony with existing conditions. In other words, while the Science of Numbers is just what it always has been—one of the surest and safest methods by which man may put his life in harmony with the laws of nature and
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