To such men, possessing entire scientific and intellectual liberty of thought, with that love of justice and truth which keeps its possessor from self-conceit, arrogance and intolerance, the world owes all that we now possess of scientific advance, since the days when men believed the thunder and lightning to be the artillery of the gods.
[1] It will be a matter of interest to those who have given attention to the laws of heredity to know that John Ernst Worrell Keely is a grandson of a German composer, Ernst, who led the Baden-Baden orchestra in his day; and that Keely’s experiments in vibration had their origin in his knowledge of music, and were commenced in his childhood. [↑]
[2] See “Untrodden Ground in Astronomy and Geology.” [↑]
CHAPTER XIX.
LATENT FORCE IN INTERSTITIAL SPACES—ELECTRO-MAGNETIC RADIATION—MOLECULAR DISSOCIATION.
(By John Ernst Worrell Keely.)
The atom is infinitely divisible.—Arthur Schopenhauer.