The recently developed Theory of Relativity has compelled the revision of the time concept as used in classical physics. One result of this has been to introduce the notion of curved time.
These two ideas, of curved time and higher space, by their very nature are bound to profoundly modify human thought. They loosen the bonds within which advancing knowledge has increasingly labored, they lighten the dark abysses of consciousness, they reconcile the discoveries of Western workers with the inspirations of Eastern dreamers; but best of all, they open vistas, they offer "glimpses that may make us less forlorn."
CONTENTS
I. THE QUEST OF FREEDOM
The Undiscovered Country—Miracles—The Failure of Common Sense—The
Function of Science—Mathematics—Intuition—Our Sense of Space—The
Subjectivity of Space—The Need of an Enlarged Space-Concept.
II. THE DIMENSIONAL LADDER
Learning to Think in Terms of Spaces—From the Cosmos to the
Corpuscle—And Beyond—Evolution as Space-Conquest—Dimensional
Sequences—Man the Geometer—Higher, and Highest, Space.
III. PHYSICAL PHENOMENA
Looking for the Greater in the Less—Symmetry—Other Allied
Phenomena—Isomerism—The Orbital Motion of Spheres: Cell-Subdivision—
The Electric Current—The Greater Universe—A Hint from Astronomy—
Gravitation—The Ether of Space.