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
We confess to a knowledge of the fact that men of empirical science
have long maintained a rather skeptical, if not contemptuous, attitude
towards all these phenomena but it is also felt that there is far more
of discredit in their attitude than of credit; for, in so doing, they
have voluntarily adopted measures by means of which the knowledge
that they so eagerly seek is shut out from their attainment. In vain,
then, is appeal made to the intellect to remove the barriers which it
unconsciously interposes between itself and the goal of its pursuit;
in vain do we appeal to the materialist to give ear to testimony the
data of which cannot be made amenable to his knife and scalpel neither
to the microscope nor microphone; in sheer vanity is he adjured to
look _within_--into the interior of life, of mind and the things which
he handles with his instruments--for the answers to his queries, for
the path which leads into the wake of life and consciousness. Because
his utter loyalty and devotion to the _modus vivendi_ of the intellect
will not permit this; but, after all, it is not wholly wise to allure
him away unbetimes from his search after truth through superficialities
nor to inveigle him into giving up his tenacious prosecution of the
physically determinable. We would not have it so; for, perchance, he,
too, one fine day, in the quiet of his laboratory shall come upon
the data which may substantiate in his own mind the long settled
conclusions of the occultist who, frequently and not without cause,
grows impatient at the scientist's obstinate delay. These two workers,
the empiricist and the occultist, must ultimately come together as
collaborators--the one working upon the form, the vehicle, physical
matter and the other seeking to understand the life, the interior
forces which produce, the creative element. They cannot remain always
aloof from one another; for they, too, are as men digging a tunnel from
opposite ends. Finally, the partition will break and thus will dawn a
new day for the knowledge of humanity and men will see the rationale,
the truth and good sense of coöperation in this respect.
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