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
This is practically what has happened in the mind of the
metageometrician who having received an intimation as to the real
nature of space as that whose center is everywhere and yet nowhere
and whose nature is psychological and vital rather than mathematical
and logical, misses the great outstanding facts and clings to the
intimations which he experiences as to the nature of space. He,
therefore, concludes that the form of space is that of a flexure or
curve. There is a valid element in the notion of the curvature of
space but not enough of truth wholly to validate the notion. Since
the very reality of space is a matter which can be determined only
by the conformance of the consciousness with it in such a manner
as to render the conception of it entirely unintelligible to the
intellect except in so far as it may be able to identify itself with
the space-process, there is much room for the serious questioning of
the mathematic conclusion upon the grounds of its fragmentariness if
not entirely upon the basis of its invalidity. Wherefore it may be
seen that any search for either the center or the extreme outer limits
which proceeds in a manner conformable to the external indications of
the intellectual order is vain, indeed. Although it is undoubtedly
true that the attainment of a central or frontier position in space
does not involve any lineal progression whatsoever, the same being
attainable, not by progression nor by overcoming distances, but by a
subtle adjustment, yea, a sort of attachment of the consciousness to
the order of becoming which binds the appearance of space, wherever
one may be, it is nevertheless difficult and painful for the intellect
to grasp the totality of this truth at one sweep. Indeed, it is not
possible for it, alone and unaided by the intuition, to grasp it at
all. Hence, the mathematician who depends entirely upon the deliveries
of the intellect which conform, in their passage from the conceptual to
the written or spoken word, to all the rigors of mathetic requirements,
fails utterly in perceiving the magnitude of this conception and all
its connotations; he fails because his prejudices and the woof and warp
of his intellectual habits prevent his assuming a sympathetic attitude
toward it and thereby precluding at the start any calm consideration
of it. And not only is this true of the mathematician but of all those
whose endeavors are confined to the plane of purely sensuous and
logical data. It would, therefore, appear that our entire attitude
towards things spatial must be changed before we can even begin to
perceive the reality which is really the object of all researches in
this domain. But, on the surface, there is after all little difference
between the ultimate facts involved in these two totally different
conceptions. Mathematically speaking, all progression eastward would
terminate at the west, and _vice versa_; and the same would be true
regardless of the point from which progression might originate. Always
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