John Stuart Mill, in order to protect science, carried empiricism to its extreme sceptical consequences, and thereby cut the ground from under the feet of all science.—Professor Otto Pfleiderer, D.D.
The word of our God shall stand for ever.—[Isa. xl. 8].
Imagination is wholly taken captive by the stupendous revelation of the God-force which modern conceptions of the Cosmos furnish. Through the whole universe beats the one life-force, that is God, controlling every molecule in the petal of a daisy, in the meteoric ring of Saturn, in the remotest nebula that outskirts space, as though that molecule were the universe. In each molecule and atom God lives and moves and has His being, thereby sustaining theirs …. Prophet after prophet cries, and psalmist after psalmist sings, that so indeed he has found it; that therein is the divine sonship of man, therein the assurance of eternal life.—Rev. R. A. Armstrong.
The living man with his interior consciousness of self and individuality is on two planes of nature at once, as a ship is in two media at once, half in the water and half in the air. To manage your ship successfully you must take cognizance of the laws governing each of those media. To deal successfully with your human being you must understand his physiology no doubt, but you must equally understand his psychology, and something of the collateral phenomena of nature in those regions or planes to which the phenomena of the psychic man belong.—A. P. Sinnett.
The splendid generalizations of our physicists and our naturalists, have had for me an enthralling and entrancing interest. I find as I look out on the world, in the light of all this new knowledge, a pressure of God upon consciousness everywhere; and if this physical force which is God, moves through, sustains, communes, with each smallest physical atom of the whole, much more must that conscious energy which is God, move through, sustain, commune with, these conscious atoms, these several monads, which are you and I, and our friend, and our brother far away. The even flow of the divine force through every material atom, which is the supreme revelation of physical science in our time, itself leads irresistibly on to the suggestion of the constant flow of spiritual energy in actual communion with every spiritual monad that there is. It becomes but a question of opening the eyes of the soul, unstopping the ears of the inward spirit, to see and hear the God who in us also surely lives and moves and has His being, thereby sustaining ours. As the physical atom is physically touched and held and thrilled by God, it is what we should expect that the conscious monad, no less should be consciously touched and held and thrilled by Him.—Rev. R. A. Armstrong.
KEELY AND HIS DISCOVERIES
AERIAL NAVIGATION
BY
Mrs. BLOOMFIELD MOORE
The universe is ONE. There is no supernatural: all is related, cause and sequence. Nothing exists but substance and its modes of motion.
Spinoza.
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., Ltd.
PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD
1893
DEDICATED
TO
JAMES DEWAR, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.
FULLERIAN PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, R.I. JACKSON PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,
IN ADMIRATION OF HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES
FOR SCIENCE,
AND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS
PROLONGED AND STEADFAST INTEREST
IN KEELY’S WORK OF EVOLUTION.
12, Great Stanhope Street, Mayfair,
16th May, 1893.
“Euroclydon driveth us—where?
On quicksands and shoals of the sea,
On rocks that wait hungry to tear
And devour with tigerish glee.
“But lo! where we land tempest-tost
Is the work that has waited our hand;—
Not one step of that life shall be lost
Whose way an All-seeing hath planned.”
We never know through what divine mysteries of compensation the Great Father of the Universe may be carrying out His sublime plans.—Miss Murdoch.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and Truth accomplishes no victory without it.—Bulwer Lytton.
Science is bound by the everlasting law of honour to face every problem fearlessly.—Lord Kelvin.
For my part, I too much value the pursuit of truth and the discovery of any new fact in nature, to avoid inquiry because it appears to clash with prevailing opinions.—Wm. Crookes, F.R.S.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.—Lord Beaconsfield.
The simple peasant who observes a fact
And from a fact deduces principles,
Adds social treasure to the public wealth.
Facts are the basis of Philosophy.
Philosophy is the harmony of facts
Seen in their right relations.—Lyrics of a Golden Age.