The Gay Gnani of Gingalee; or, Discords of Devolution / A Tragical Entanglement of Modern Mysticism and Modern Science

THE GAY GNANI OF GINGALEE
BY FLORENCE HUNTLEY, Author of “Harmonics of Evolution” and “The Dream Child”
HARMONIC FICTION SERIES VOL. II
CHICAGO INDO-AMERICAN BOOK CO. 1908
Copyright 1908 By FLORENCE HUNTLEY
Published 1908
DEDICATED to Those who are wise enough to be foolish—at intervals
Mother Nature contributes the elements and qualities and “temperament” of the individual; and no matter what the education, occupation, position or experience, those native tendencies persist.
One who is born with the disposition for mental frivoling and a keen sense of nonsense discovers that these tendencies persist with far greater tenacity than any impulses of anger or fear or other destructive elements. The writer of this little book has found them subordinate only to the thirst for knowledge and the love of truth.
When the author of this “romance” finally renounced the small gods of her personal ambitions, and surrendered the diverting occupation of newspaper work for serious instruction in the School of Natural Science, she merely restrained but never eliminated that Sense of Nonsense. The native tendency toward intellectual badinage and literary travesty persisted—and even to the present time it furnishes relaxation from the absorbing duties in connection with The Great Work.
Science, if it be Science, must take into account all of the facts of Human Nature; and Philosophy, if it be Philosophy, must include and assign to place every intellectual, native and normal tendency of the Soul.
Science and Philosophy that have no room for the incongruities of life and the frivolings of the intelligence are only partial mentors and masters.