[4] This is what Keely terms “sympathetic outreach.” [↑]
[5] A facetious journalist commenting on this paper reprints its last paragraphs as “the only part that is perfectly lucid to the lay mind,” continuing:—“We trust Keely will continue to bombard his corpuscles until he accomplishes it. And when he does, all other scientific men of this or any other age will sink by comparison into insignificance. Let no man say he cannot do it. Mr. Keely, the world is still waiting for you.” [↑]
[6] Platina wires the thickness of a fine hair associated with each of the nine nodal beads, and concentrated towards a general centre of localization, attaching the other end of the wires to the focal centre, will determine, by the magnetic conduction, the number of corpuscular oscillations per second induced by a thought, either positive or negative, in the central centres. These are the only conditions—those of magnetic conduction—whereby the evolution of a thought can be computed in regard to its force under propagation, as against the amount of latent energy set free to act as induced by such thought on the physical organism. [↑]
[7] It is always interesting to trace the germ of a scientific idea, hypothesis, or established truth. A writer in La Lumière Electrique, vol. xlv., has drawn attention to the fact that Descartes gave a theory of magnetism, in 1656, which resembles the modern conception of lines of stress in the ether. He considers that all magnets are traversed by a subtle fluid which flows out at the North Pole, and curving round, in the ether, re-enters at the South Pole, thus completing the circuit. Some of the greatest doctrines of science have recurred again and again, like the motif of a piece of music, until they finally assume a definite shape and become a working part of human progress; as will be seen when Keely’s system is recognized. [↑]
CHAPTER XX.
1892.
PROGRESSIVE SCIENCE—KEELY’s PRESENT POSITION.
(A Review of the Situation.)
This amount of repetition to some will probably appear to be tedious, but only by varied iteration can alien conceptions be forced on reluctant minds.—Herbert Spencer.