“All’s love, yet all’s law.”
As the offspring of God, only by living in love and harmony can we fulfil the law and maintain health and happiness, either individually in family life, or collectively in our intercourse with the world. As Goethe taught:—
Let the God within thee speak,
Love all things that lovely be,
And God will show His best to thee.
[1] The paper which Mr. J. F. Nisbet was commissioned to write, in behalf of this discoverer’s claims on the world for patience, while pursuing his researches (and paid in advance for writing), illustrates the truth of this assertion. Mr. Nisbet’s essay, entitled “The Present Aspect of the Molecular Theory, or Mr. Keely’s Relations to Modern Science,” closes with these lines:—“If science looks askance at Mr. Keely’s professions, therefore, it has its reasons for doing so. These reasons, as I have shown, are not mere prejudices. In more than one line of inquiry they have, what seems to be, a substantial basis of fact, which must be explained away before Mr. Keely’s theory of ‘etheric force’ can commend itself to the mind of the impartial observer.”
Fortunately, for the interests of science and of humanity, the threatened prosecution of Mr. Keely (for obtaining money under false pretences) was checkmated by Provost Pepper’s action, early in January, before Mr. Nisbet wrote to America that he could not commence his paper until he had received more information; sending a series of questions to be answered by Mr. Keely. The superficial character of the essay will be seen, when printed, as well as that Mr. Nisbet promised more than he was able to perform when he accepted the cheque in order to enable him to devote time to the writing of a paper, for an influential quarter, which it was hoped would enlist public sympathy in Keely’s behalf. But that power which is mightier than the sword, in putting down error and injustice, has hitherto turned its weapons against Keely (with some rare exceptions) as Mr. Nisbet did in his essay.—C.J.M. [↑]
[2] This is effected by polarization and depolarization, and the rotation of a non-magnetic needle by molecular differentiation: both needles revolving about 120 times in a second. [↑]