The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of spaceBrowne, Robert T.
Religion
The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of space
Browne, Robert T.
Hyperspace
Realism is psychological and vital. In essence it is mind, spirit,
life. Yet these three are one. Mind is the outward vehicle of life;
spirit is the form or the interior vehicle which life assumes in order
to express itself. Realism, then, is life. Is the logician dealing
with reality when he collects and coördinates the various modes of
interpretation by which we learn to understand the symbolism of life?
Obviously not. The data of logic are simply a collection of rules for
interpreting concepts. It is a compendium of indices for the Book of
Life. It is no more the book itself than a table of contents is a
book. But logic occupies about the same category as does an index to a
volume. A book, however, is more than its conventional contents. It is
the thought that is symbolized therein. The book of life, accordingly,
is the sum total of life's expressions; but it is not life itself. That
is the subtle, evasive something which the contents of the book of life
symbolize. Nature, both in her palpable and impalpable aspects, may be
said to be the book of life wherein are recorded the movements, the
expressions, and the diacritics of life. The whole is a magnitude of
many facets (little faces). We shall have to know all the faces before
we can say that we have a comprehensive knowledge of nature. For so
long as we have only a fragmentary knowledge of the whole, so long even
as we have merely a superficial knowledge of any aspect of nature,
just so long will our knowledge be in vain. Just as it frequently
happens that, on account of the partial view of things, we are led
to make incorrect judgments concerning them, so when we come to make
assertions about life or nature in general, we are apt to fall into the
error of rendering judgments upon insufficient data. And it is not at
all likely that judgments thus arrived at can possess true validity
because it may happen, and undoubtedly does always so happen under the
present limitations of human knowledge, that the very elements which
are ignored or neglected in forming a judgment possess enough of virtue
to alter the intrinsic value of determinations based upon otherwise
insufficient data. Hence it develops not infrequently that our
judgments repeatedly have to be changed in proportion as our data are
made more and more comprehensive. Men searching eagerly for the truth
sometimes allow themselves to be carried away by the enthusiasm of the
moment which arises upon the discovery of a new facet of truth; but
if all searchers were to bear in mind the fact that reality presents
itself to consciousness in myriad ways and that there are innumerable
facets all leading eventually back to the source of all they not so
easily would be induced to jump to the conclusion that they had covered
the entire ground. For when we have discovered a million facts, or many
millions of them, about nature we may say that we have only merely
begun and that what we have found is not to be compared with the
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