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.
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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
Now, _n_-dimensionality or that phase of metageometry which regards
space as being divisible into any number of dimensions or systems of
coördinates is a direct and inevitable product of that tendency of the
intellect to individuate and to singularize phenomena. Biologically
speaking, it is a peculiarity which harks back to the time when life
was manifested through the cell-colony and when the individual cells
began, because of increasing consciousness, to detach themselves
from the colony and set out for themselves, and thus each intellect
recapitulates in its _modus vivendi_ the salient tendencies of
phylogenesis. Let it suffice, then, to point out that this universal
tendency to segment and fragmentate which rigorously characterizes
intellectual operations upon every phenomenon with which it deals is a
culmination of the primordial tendency among cells to divide, inasmuch
as this phase of cell life must be the work of the kosmic intellect.
The natural inference is that from the extreme of individualization
there shall be a gradual turning, whether of the intellect _per se_
or of the intellect joined to the intuition does not matter, towards
that other extreme of _communalization_. And from this latter shall
grow up, as one of the inevitable and ineluctable tendencies of the
Thinker's consciousness a torrentious movement in human society towards
coöperation, brotherhood, mutuality and union in everything. So that
whereas in the past and at the present time the intellect has been
developing under the dominant note of individuality it will then be
coming gradually under another dominant note--_communality_. The result
of this development will be the unification of all things, and instead
of many dimensions of space, many measures of time, and a general
diversification of all phenomena, we shall come to the only true notion
of these things and realize pragmatically the true value and extent of
unity in the universe.
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