Excerpt from The Ancient Science of Number: The Practical Application of Its Principles in the Attainment of Health, Success, and Happiness It is not easy to find a definition for the Science of Numbers that shall be both brief and comprehensive. We may say, however, that it is a method of enumer ation by means of which the life of men and things may be fixed and rounded out to a state of approximate completion by being brought into harmony with the laws of Omnipotence.