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
The four-space is one of the curiosities of analytics; yet it need
not be a menace to the sane contemplation of the variegated products
of analysis. Safety here abides in the restraint which should
characterize all discussion and application of the concept. If
enthusiasts would be content not to transport the so-called fourth
dimensional space out of the sphere of hyperspace and cease trying
to speculate upon the results of its interposal into three space
conditions, which is in every way a constructual impossibility, there
could not be any possible objection to its due consideration. This
would obviate the danger of calling into question either the sincerity
or perspicacity of those whose enthusiasm tempts them to transgress the
limits of propriety in their behavior towards the inquiry.
There is but one life, one mind, one extension, one quantity, one
quality, one being, one state, one condition, one mood, one affection,
one desire, one feeling, one consciousness. There is also but one
number and that is unity. All so-called integers are but fractional
parts of this kosmic unity. The idea represented by the word _two_
really connotates two parts of unity and the same is true of a
decillion, or any number of parts. These are merely the infinitesimals
of unity and they grow less in size and consequence as the divisions
increase in number. The analysis of unity into an infinity of parts is
purely an _a posteriori_ procedure. That it is an inherent mind-process
is a fallacy. All our common quantities, as the mile, kilometer,
yard, foot, inch, gallon, quart, are conventional and arbitrary and
susceptible of wide variations. As the basis of all physical phenomena
is unity; it is only in the ephemeral manifestations of sensuous
objects that they appear as separate and distinct quantities.
We see on a tree many leaves, many apples or cherries; on a cob many
grains of corn. We have learned to assign to each of these quantities
in their summation a sequence value. But this is an empirical notion
and cannot be said to inhere in the mind itself. Let us take, for
instance, the mustard seed. If it were true that in one of these seeds
there existed all the subsequent seeds which appear in the mustard
plant as separate and identifiable quantities, and not in essence, then
there would perhaps be warrant for the notion that diversity, as the
calculable element, is an _a priori_ conception. But, as this is not
the case and since diversity is purely empirical and pertains only to
the efflorescence of the one life it is manifestly absurd to take that
view.
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