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
It is believed that we may go a step further and unqualifiedly assert
that _space is finite_, even denying its infinity as a "general mode
of the activity of the whole." Yet it is transfinite in the sense
that it transcends the comprehension of finite minds or processes. It
is _finite_ because it is in _manifestation_. Everything that is in
manifestation is finite. The infinite is not in manifestation. Infinity
has to be limited always to become manifest. The Deity has limited His
being in order that there may be a manifested universe. All things,
all appearances are finite; because they are phenomena connected with
manifestation.
This question may be viewed from another standpoint. All things in
manifestation or existence are polar in their constitution. For
instance: there cannot be a "here" without a "there." There cannot
be an "upper" without a "lower." Right is copolar with wrong;
good is copolar with evil; night with day; manifestation with
non-manifestation; truth with falsity; infinity with finity and so
on, throughout the whole gamut of the pairs of opposites. What is the
logical inference? Space is paired with a lack of space. There cannot
be what we call _space_ without there being at the same time the
possibility, at least, of the _lack of space or spacelessness_. This is
a conclusion that is rigorously logical and incontrovertible.
But it has been urged that it is impossible for the mind to imagine
a condition where there is no space. It even has been asserted that
it is contrary to the constitution of the mind itself to imagine "no
space." But whether imaginable or not has no effect whatever upon the
validity of the conception. Neither, it is said, can we imagine a
fourth dimension but the mind has come dangerously near to imagining
it. The distance from excogitating upon, discussing and describing
the properties of four-space to imagining it is not so great after
all. Truly it is difficult indeed, it seems, to be able to describe a
thing yet not be able to imagine or make a mental image of it. There
is an evident fallacy here. Either the description of four-space is
no description at all or it is a true delineation of an idealized
construction which is well within the mind's powers of imagination.
Indeed the question of imaginability is not determinative in itself;
for what the mind may now be unable to imagine, because of its more or
less nebulous character, and owing to its infancy may in the course of
time be easily accomplished.
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