,,keely ,,and ,,his ,,discoveries ,,aerial ,,navigation ,,by ,mrs4 ,,bloomfield ,,moore ,the universe is ,,one4 ,there is no supernatural3 all is related1 cause and sequence4 ,nothing exists but substance and its modes of motion4 ,spinoza4 ,,london ,,kegan ,,paul1 ,,trench1 ,,tr,,bner ,,co41 ,ltd4 ,,paternoster ,,house1 ,,charing ,,cross ,,road #ahic ,john ,stuart ,mill1 in order to protect science1 carried empiricism to its extreme sceptical consequences1 and thereby cut the ground from under the feet of all science4--,professor ,otto ,pfleiderer1 ,d4,d4 ,the word of our ,god shall stand for ever4--,isa4 xl4 #h4 ,imagination is wholly taken captive by the stupendous revelation of the ,god-force which modern conceptions of the ,cosmos furnish4 ,through the whole universe beats the one life-force1 that is ,god1 controlling every molecule in the petal of a daisy1 in the meteoric ring of ,saturn1 in the remotest nebula that outskirts space1 as though that molecule were the universe4 ,in each molecule and atom ,god lives and moves and has ,his being1 thereby sustaining theirs4444 ,prophet after prophet cries1 and psalmist after psalmist sings1 that so indeed he has found it2 that therein is the divine sonship of man1 therein the assurance of eternal life4--,rev4 ,r4 ,a4 ,armstrong4 ,the living man with his interior consciousness of self and individuality is on two planes of nature at once1 as a ship is in two media at once1 half in the water and half in the air4 ,to manage your ship successfully you must take cognizance of the laws governing each of those media4 ,to deal successfully with your human being you must understand his physiology no doubt1 but you must equally understand his psychology1 and something of the collateral phenomena of nature in those regions or planes to which the phenomena of the psychic man belong4--,a4 ,p4 ,sinnett4 ,the splendid generalizations of our physicists and our naturalists1 have had for me an enthralling and entrancing interest4 ,i find as ,i look out on the world1 in the light of all this new knowledge1 a pressure of ,god upon consciousness everywhere2 and if this physical force which is ,god1 moves through1 sustains1 communes1 with each smallest physical atom of the whole1 much more must that conscious energy which is ,god1 move through1 sustain1 commune with1 these conscious atoms1 these several monads1 which are you and ,i1 and our friend1 and our brother far away4 ,the even flow of the divine force through every material atom1 which is the supreme revelation of physical science in our time1 itself leads irresistibly on to the suggestion of the constant flow of spiritual energy in actual communion with every spiritual monad that there is4 ,it becomes but a question of opening the eyes of the soul1 unstopping the ears of the inward spirit1 to see and hear the ,god who in us also surely lives and moves and has ,his being1 thereby sustaining ours4 ,as the physical atom is physically touched and held and thrilled by ,god1 it is what we should expect that the conscious monad1 no less should be consciously touched and held and thrilled by ,him4--,rev4 ,r4 ,a4 ,armstrong4 ,euroclydon driveth us--where8 ,on quicksands and shoals of the sea1 ,on rocks that wait hungry to tear ,and devour with tigerish glee4 ,but lo6 where we land tempest-tost ,is the work that has waited our hand2-- ,not one step of that life shall be lost ,whose way an ,all-seeing hath planned4 ,we never know through what divine mysteries of compensation the ,great ,father of the ,universe may be carrying out ,his sublime plans4--,miss ,murdoch4 ,enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity1 and ,truth accomplishes no victory without it4--,bulwer ,lytton4 ,science is bound by the everlasting law of honour to face every problem fearlessly4--,lord ,kelvin4 ,for my part1 ,i too much value the pursuit of truth and the discovery of any new fact in nature1 to avoid inquiry because it appears to clash with prevailing opinions4--,wm4 ,crookes1 ,f4,r4,s4 ,the secret of success is constancy to purpose4--,lord ,beaconsfield4 ,the simple peasant who observes a fact ,and from a fact deduces principles1 ,adds social treasure to the public wealth4 ,facts are the basis of ,philosophy4 ,philosophy is the harmony of facts ,seen in their right relations4--,lyrics of a ,golden ,age4 ,,dedicated ,,to ,,james ,,dewar1 ,m4,a41 ,,ll4,d41 ,f4,r4,s41 ,m4,r4,i4 ,,fullerian ,,professor ,,of ,,chemistry1 ,r4,i4 ,,jackson ,,professor1 ,,university ,,of ,,cambridge1 ,,in ,,admiration ,,of ,,his ,,distinguished ,,services ,,for ,,science1 ,,and ,,in ,,grateful ,,acknowledgment ,,of ,,his ,,prolonged ,,and ,,steadfast ,,interest ,,in ,,keely',s ,,work ,,of ,,evolution4 #ab1 ,great ,stanhope ,street1 ,mayfair1 #afth ,may1 #ahic4 ,,contents4 ,,page ,preface4--,by the ,rev4 ,john ,andrew xi ,introduction xv ,,chapter ,i4 #ahgb-ahhb4 ,introductory #a ,,chapter ,,ii4 #ahhb-ahhf4 ,ether the ,true ,protoplasm1 ,an ,epitome of ,macvicar's ,sketch of a ,philosophy #aa ,,chapter ,,iii4 #ahhe-ahhg4 ,the ,nature of ,keely's ,problems #cj ,,chapter ,,iv4 #ahhg4 ,sympathetic ,vibratory ,force #da ,,chapter ,v4 ,etheric ,vibration4--,the ,key ,force #ed ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,the ,fountain ,head of ,force #fe ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,the ,key to the ,problems4--,keely's ,secrets #gb ,,chapter ,,viii4 #ahhh4 ,helpers on the ,road1 and ,hinderers #aja ,,chapter ,,ix4 #ahhi-ahij4 ,keely supported by ,eminent ,men of ,science4--,aerial ,navigation #aac ,,chapter ,x4 #ahha-ahia4 ,the ,keely ,motor ,bubble4--,macvicar's ,logical ,analysis #abi ,,chapter ,,xi4 #ahij4 ,vibratory ,sympathetic and ,polar ,flows4--,keely's ,contributions to ,science #ade ,,chapter ,,xii4 ,vibratory ,physics4--,true ,science #afg ,,chapter ,,xiii4 ,more ,science #ahf ,,chapter ,,xiv4 ,vibratory ,physics4--,the ,connecting ,link between ,mind and ,matter #bjf ,,chapter ,,xv4 ,the ,philosophy of ,history4--,keely the ,founder of a ,system #bbi ,,chapter ,,xvi4 #ahia4 ,an ,appeal in ,behalf of the ,continuance of ,keely's ,researches #bch ,,chapter ,,xvii4 #ahia4 ,more of ,keely's ,theories4--,his ,traducers exposed #bfe ,,chapter ,,xviii4 ,a ,pioneer in an ,unknown ,realm #bhe ,,chapter ,,xix4 ,latent ,force in ,interstitial ,spaces4--,electro-,magnetic ,radiation4--,molecular ,dissociation4 ,by ,john ,ernst ,worrell ,keely #bih ,,chapter ,,xx4 #ahib4 ,progressive ,science4--,keely's ,present ,position4--,a ,review of the ,situation #cai ,,chapter ,,xxi4 ,faith by ,science3 ,the ,dawn of a ,new ,order of ,things #ccb ,,conclusion4 ,keely's ,physical ,philosophy4--,by ,professor ,d4 ,g4 ,brinton1 ,m4,d41 of the ,university of ,pennsylvania #ceh ,appendix ,i4 #cfe ,appendix ,,ii4 #cfh ,appendix ,,iii4 #cgj ,verses #cgc ,,preface4 ,by the ,rev4 ,john ,andrew1 of ,belfast4 ,wait on the ,lord4 ,when the ,almighty is taking men into ,his deeper confidence as to ,his ,creation ways1 and how ,his ways may be taken advantage of for man's service and benefit1 the gifted one through whom such revealing is being made should not be hurried by the common bustle of the world1 but should be protected in the privacy where the ,creator and he are closeted together in the giving and receiving which is thus transpiring4 ,scientific patience is1 in all such cases1 imperative4 ,when the gifted one is bustled by the world1 as ,mr4 ,keely has been1 his inspiration is disturbed and his advance hindered4 ,if the first inkling of some great revealing thus in progress should promise some mighty find for the material advantage of mankind1 there is naturally a quickened desire to gain possession2 but if in such an event impatience should impel the seer1 ere his far-visioned sight has reached the end1 deplorable delay may be the result4 ,this is the thing which has happened in the case which this little volume comes forth to relate and explain4 ,it is not intended to unfold the systematic methods of the gifted genius concerning whom it speaks2 that will come1 in his own words1 in due time4 ,the aim of this volume is to show the course of events in relation to his researches2 and to open the mystery of how it came about that he should have been so much misunderstood and hindered4 ,it tells how he1 in the dim dawn of initial inspiration1 first glimpsed and touched ,the ,power which is about to be given to the possession of mankind for the supply of wants1 and the relief of toil4 ,how he struggled and wrestled like the patriarch of old who said1 ,i will not let ,thee go1 except ,thou bless me4 ,how men of the world1 seeing the struggle and estimating the power1 said1 ,make haste and harness this power to our machinery1 and we shall pay you4 ,how1 in his need of means1 he was tempted and fell2 making an attempt to harness to machinery a power whose very form and kind he had not yet been given to discern4 ,and then1 when this too hasty attempt had failed1 how the disappointed world laughed and mocked1 and fumed1 and called him an impostor4 ,this volume seeks to explain this ,keely ,mystery2 and to show that although a mistake was made1 it was only a passing mistake4 ,the mistake has been rectified2 and the seer1 now in possession of peace and privacy1 has fully sighted the power1 and is making progress in bringing it into subjugation4 ,he has been interviewed by competent men1 men of enlarged scientific vision2 and in the protection of their esteem1 and by the liberal pecuniary aid of one who has made scientific interests an object of sacred solicitude1 ,mr4 ,keely is likely to succeed in opening to the world another of the stores which the ,almighty ,creator and ,preserver1 ever provident of ,his children's needs1 has prepared in reserve against the time of their necessity4 ,we may theorize1 but ,god alone knows the means by which the regeneration of mankind1 and the establishment of the kingdom of righteousness and peace shall come about4 ,the ,all-merciful has a purpose and plan of ,his own4 ,the power which ,mr4 ,keely is dealing with belongs to the ways and means of the evolution of civilization and material providence2 and it will depend on how men make use of it how far it may clear or block the way of this planet's highest weal4 ,the power1 however1 which ,mr4 ,keely is dealing with lies so close to the spiritual realm of things1 and brings us so near to the point at which the ,almighty is in immediate touch of ,his ,creation in ,his unceasing upholding of it1 that all ,christian men might be expected to take a deep interest in researches which promise so much4 ,it may reasonably be hoped that this volume may promote this interest1 and turn the attention to coming events which are casting more than shadows before4 ,with this hope we commend it to the reading of the wise4 ,those who delight in yellow-covered literature may pass it by2 it contains no plot for the excitement of such4 ,,introduction4 ,ex ,vivo ,omnia4 ,we stand before the dawning of a new day in science and humanity1--a new discovery1 surpassing any that has been hitherto made2 which promises to afford us a key to some of the most recondite secrets of nature1 and to open up to our view a new world4--,dr4 ,hufeland4 ,the error of our century in questions of research seems to have been in the persistent investigation of the phenomena of matter 7or material organization7 as the sole province of physics1 regarding psychical research as lying outside4 ,the term physics is derived from a ,greek word signifying nature4 ,nature does not limit herself to matter and mechanism4 ,the phenomena of spirit are as much a part of ,nature as are those of matter4 ,the psychological theories of our physicists display a decided leaning towards materialism1 disregarding the manifestations of the vital principle1--the vis motrix1--and refusing to investigate beyond the limits which they have imposed upon themselves1 and which1 if accepted by all1 would take us back to the belief of the pagans1 as echoed by ,voltaire3 ,est-ce-l ce rayon de l',essence ,suprme ,que l'on nous peint si lumineux8 ,est-ce-l cet ,esprit survivant nous-mme8 ,il nait avec nos sens1 crot1 s'affaiblit comme eux3 ,hlas6 il prira de mme4 ,sympathetic philosophy teaches that the various phenomena of the human constitution cannot be properly comprehended and explained without observing the distinction between the physical and material1 and the moral and spiritual nature of man4 ,it demonstrates incontrovertibly the separate existence and independent activity of the soul of man1 and that the spirit governs the body instead of being governed by the body4 ,as ,spenser has said1-- ,for of the soul the body form doth take2 ,for soul is form1 and doth the body make4 ,huxley tells us that science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious1 and that religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis4 ,civilization1 society1 and morals1 says ,figuier1 are like a string of beads1 whose fastening is the belief in the immortality of the soul4 ,break the fastening and the beads are scattered4 ,now1 as ,nature nowhere exhibits to our visual perceptions a soul acting without a body1 and as we do not know in what manner the spiritual faculties are united to the organization1 psychology is compelled to investigate the operations of the intellect as if they were performed altogether independently of the body2 whereas they are only manifested1 in the ordinary state of existence1 through the intermediate agency of the corporeal organs4 ,the accumulation of psychological facts and speculations which characterize this age appears to have made little or no permanent impression upon the minds of our scientists and our philosophers4 ,bishop ,berkeley asks1 ,have not ,fatalism and ,sadducism gained ground during the general passion for the corpuscularian and mechanical philosophy which hath prevailed8 ,buffon1 in writing of the sympathy1 or relation1 which exists throughout the whole animal economy1 said1 ,let us1 with the ancients1 call this singular correspondence of the different parts of the body a sympathy1 or1 with the moderns consider it as an unknown relation in the action of the nervous system1 we cannot too carefully observe its effects1 if we wish to perfect the theory of medicine4 ,colquhoun1 commenting upon ,buffon's statement1 says that far too little attention has been paid to the spiritual nature of man1--to the effects of those immaterial and invisible influences which1 analogous to the chemical and electrical agents1 are the true springs of our organization1 continually producing changes internally which are externally perceived as the marked effects of unseen causes1 and which cannot be explained upon the principles of any law of mechanism4 ,these unseen causes are now made clear to us by the truths which ,vibratory ,physics and ,sympathetic ,philosophy demonstrate and sustain4 ,the prophecy of ,dr4 ,hufeland 7made in connection with an account of certain phenomena arising from the unchangeable laws of sympathetic association7 is soon to be fulfilled1 and the door thrown open to a new world of research4 ,professor ,rcker in his papers on ,molecular ,forces1 ,william ,crookes in his lecture on ,the ,genesis of ,elements1 ,norman ,lockyer in his book on ,the ,chemistry of the ,sun1--all these scientists have approached so near to this hitherto bolted1 double-barred and locked portal that the wonder is not so much that they have approached as that1 drawing so near1 they have not passed within4 ,professor ,rcker1 in his papers 7read before the ,royal ,institution of ,great ,britain7 explaining the attractive and repulsive action of molecules1 found himself obliged to apologize to scientists for suggesting the possibility of an intelligence by which alone he could explain certain phenomena unaccounted for by science2 but do we not find proof in ourselves that the action of molecules is an intelligent action8 ,for we must admit the individuality of the molecules in our organisms1 in order to understand how it is that nourishment maintains life4 ,try as we may to account for the action of aliment upon the system1 all is resolved into the fact that there must be some intelligent force at work4 ,do we ourselves disunite and intermingle1 by myriad channels1 in order to rejoin and replace a molecule which awaits this aid8 ,we must either affirm that it is so1 that we place them where we think they are needed1 or that it is the molecules that find a place of themselves4 ,we know that we are occupied in other ways which demand all our thoughts4 ,it must1 therefore1 be that these molecules find their own place4 ,admit this1 and we accord life and intelligence to them4 ,if we reason that it is our nerves which appropriate substances that they need for the maintenance of their energy and their harmonious action1 we then concede to the nerves what we deny to the molecules4 ,or1 if we think it more natural to attribute this power to the viscera1--the stomach1 for example1--we only change the thesis4 ,it will be said that it is pantheism to assert that matter1 under all the forms which it presents1 is only groups of aggregates of sympathetic molecules1 of a substance unalterable in its individualities2 a thinking1 acting substance4 ,let us not deny what we are unable to explain4 ,god is all that is1 without everything that is being individually ,god4 ,etheric force has been compared to the trunk of a tree1 the roots of which rest in ,infinity4 ,the branches of the tree correspond to the various modifications of this one force1--heat1 light1 electricity1 and its close companion force1 magnetism4 ,it is held in suspension in our atmosphere4 ,it exists throughout the universe4 ,actual science not admitting a void1 then all things must touch one another4 ,to touch is to be but one by contiguity1 or there would be between one thing and another something which might be termed space1 or nothing4 ,now1 as nothing cannot exist1 there must be something between the atomic triplets which are1 according to the ,keely theory1 found in each molecule4 ,this something in the molecule he affirms to be the universal fluid1 or molecular ether4 ,one thing touching another1 all must therefore be all in all1 and through all1 by the sensitive combination of all the molecules in the universe1 as is demonstrated by electricity1 galvanism1 the loadstone1 etc4 ,if we account for the intelligent action of molecules by attributing it to what has been variously called the universal fluid1 the electric fluid1 the galvanic fluid1 the nervous fluid1 the magnetic fluid1 it will only be substituting one name for another2 it is still some part or other of the organization which discerns and joins to itself a portion of one of the fluids referred to1 or one of these fluids which discerns and mingles with the material molecules2 it is still the life of the part1 the life of the molecule1 life individualized in all and through all4 ,admitting1 then1 that there is a universal fluid1 it must exist in and through all things4 ,if void does not exist1 everything is full2 if all is full1 everything is in contact2 if everything is in contact1 the whole influences and is influenced because all is life2 and life is movement1 because movement is a continual disunion and union of all the molecules which compose the whole4 ,the ancient philosophers admitted all this4 ,under the different names of macrocosm1 microcosm1 corpuscles1 emanations1 attraction1 repulsion1 sympathy1 and antipathy1--all names which are only one1--their various propositions were merely the product of inductions influenced by their modes of observing1 as the deductions of scientists are influenced in our day4 ,balzac tells us that everything here below is the product of an ethereal substance1 the common basis of various phenomena1 known under the inappropriate names of electricity1 heat1 light1 galvanic and magnetic fluid1 etc41 and that the universality of its transmutations constitutes what is vulgarly called matter4 ,we cannot take up a book on physics 7written with true scientific knowledge7 in which we do not find evidence that its author acknowledges that there is1 correctly speaking1 but one force in nature4 ,radcliffe tells us that what is called electricity is only a one-sided aspect of a law which1 when fully revealed1 will be found to rule over organic as well as inorganic nature--a law to which the discoveries of science and the teachings of philosophy alike bear testimony1--a law which does not entomb life in matter1 but which transfigures matter with a life which1 when traced to its source1 will prove only to be the effluence of the ,divine life4 ,macvicar teaches that the nearer we ascend to the fountain-head of being and of action1 the more magical must everything inevitably become2 for that fountain-head is pure volition4 ,and pure volition1 as a cause is precisely what is meant by magic2 for by magic is meant a mode of producing a phenomenon without mechanical appliances1--that is1 without that seeming continuity of resisting parts and that leverage which satisfy our muscular sense and our imagination and bring the phenomenon into the category of what we call the natural2 that is1 the sphere of the elastic1 the gravitating1--the sphere into which the vis inerti is alone admitted4 ,there is in ,professor ,crookes's ,genesis of the ,elements an hypothesis of great interest1--a projectment of philosophical truth which brings him nearer than any known living scientist to the ground held by ,keely4 ,davy defines hypothesis as the scaffolding of science1 useful to build up true knowledge1 but capable of being put up or taken down at pleasure1 without injuring the edifice of philosophy4 ,when we find men in different parts of the world constructing the same kind of scaffolding1 we may feel fairly sure that they have an edifice to build4 ,the scaffolding may prove to be insecure1 but it can be flung away and another constructed4 ,it is the edifice that is all-important1--the philosophy not the hypotheses4 ,the science of learning1 says ,professor ,lesley1 and the science of knowledge are not quite identical2 and learning has too often1 in the case of individuals1 overwhelmed and smothered to death knowledge4 ,it is a familiar fact that great discoveries come at long intervals1 brought by specially-commissioned and highly-endowed messengers2 while a perpetual procession of humble servants of nature arrive with gifts of lesser moment1 but equally genuine1 curious1 and interesting novelties4 ,from what unknown land does all this wealth of information come8 ,who are these bearers of it8 ,and who intrusted each with his particular burden1 which he carries aloft as if it deserved exclusive admiration8 ,why do those who bring the best things walk so seriously and modestly along as if they were in the performance of a sacred duty1 for which they scarcely esteem themselves worthy8 ,the ,bishop of ,carlisle1 in his paper on ,the ,uniformity of ,nature1 suggests the answer to all who are prepared to approach the abyss which has hitherto divided physical science from spiritual science1--an abyss which is soon to be illumined by the sunlight of demonstration and spanned by the bridge of knowledge4 ,to quote from the paper of the ,bishop of ,carlisle1 ,there are matters of the highest moment which manifestly do lie outside the domain of physical science4 ,the possibility of the continuance of human existence in a spiritual form after the termination of physical life is1 beyond contradiction1 one of the grandest and most momentous of possibilities1 but in the nature of things it lies outside physics4 ,yet there is nothing absolutely absurd1 nothing which contradicts any human instinct1 in the supposition of such possibility2 consequently1 the student of physical science1 even if he cannot find time or inclination to look into such matters himself1 may well have patience with those who can4 ,and he may easily afford to be generous3 the field of physical science is grand enough for any ambition1 and there is room enough in the wide world both for physical and for psychical research4 ,but does psychical research lie outside the domain of physical science8 ,what is the supernatural but the higher workings of laws which we call natural1 as far as we have been able to investigate them8 ,is not the supernatural1 then1 just as legitimate a subject of consideration1 for the truly scientific mind1 as is the natural8 ,if it explains1 satisfactorily1 phenomena which cannot be otherwise explained1 there is no good reason why its aid should not be invoked by men of science4 ,the truth is1 that the ordinary course of nature is one continued miracle1 one continued manifestation of the ,divine mind4 ,everything which is1 is thought1 says ,amiel1 but not conscious and individual thought4 ,everything is a symbol of a symbol2 and a symbol of what8--of mind4 ,we are hemmed round with mystery1 and the greatest mysteries are contained in what we see1 and do1 every day4 ,keely affirms1 with other philosophers1 that there is only one unique substance1 and that this substance is the ,divine spirit1 the spirit of life1 and that this spirit of life is ,god1 who fills everything with ,his thoughts2 disjoining and grouping together these multitudes of thoughts in different bodies called atmospheres1 fluids1 matters1 animal1 vegetable1 and mineral forms4 ,herbert ,spencer says that amid the mysteries that become the more mysterious the more they are thought about1 there will remain the one absolute certainty1 that we are ever in the presence of an infinite and an eternal energy1 from which all things proceed4 ,macvicar foreshadowed the teachings of this new philosophy when he wrote1 ,all motion in the universe is rhythmical4 ,this is seen in the forward and backward movement of the pendulum1 the ebb and the flow of the tides1 the succession of day and night1 the systolic and diastolic action of the heart1 and in the inspiration and expiration of the lungs4 ,our breathing is a double motion of universal ther1 an active and a reactive movement4 ,this androgyne principle1 with its dual motion1 is the breath of ,god in man4 ,the writings of the ancients teem with these ideas1 which have been handed down to us from generation to generation1 and are now flashing their light1 like torches in the darkness1 upon mysteries too long regarded as lying outside the domains of physical science4 ,twenty years ago ,macvicar wrote his ,sketch of a ,philosophy1 in which he advanced the above views1 with other views now maintained and demonstrated by ,keely1 who during these twenty years1 without knowing ,macvicar's views1 or of his existence even1 has been engaged in that dead-work which cannot be delegated1 the result of which is not learning1 but knowledge2 for learning1 says ,lessing1 is only our knowledge of the experience of others2 knowledge is our own4 ,this burden of dead-work1 writes ,lesley1 every great discoverer has had to carry for years and years1 unknown to the world at large1 before the world was electrified by his appearance as its genius4 ,without it1 there can be no discovery of what is rightly called a scientific truth4 ,every advancement in science comes from this dead-work1 and creates1 of its own nature1 an improvement in the condition of the race2 putting1 as it does1 the multitudes of human society on a fairer and friendlier footing with one another4 ,and during these twenty years of dead-work the discoverer of etheric force has pursued the even tenor of his way1 under circumstances which show him to be a giant in intellectual greatness1 insensible to paltry1 hostile criticism1 patient under opposition1 dead to all temptations of self-interest1 calmly superior to the misjudgments of the short-sighted and ignoble2 noble means as indispensable to him as noble ends2 fame and riches less important than his honour2 his joys arising from the accomplishment of his work and the love and the sympathy of the few who have comprehended him6 ,only the noble-hearted can understand the noble-hearted4 ,keely's chief ambition has been to utilize the force he discovered2 not for his own aggrandizement1 but to bless the lives of his fellow-men4 ,he has scaled the rocks which barricade earth from heaven1 and he knows that the fire which he has brought down with him is divine4 ,this so-called secret is an open secret1 which1 after it is known1 may be read everywhere1--in the revolution of the planets as well as in the crystallization of minerals and in the growth of a flower4 ,but why does not ,keely share his knowledge with others8 ,why does he not proclaim his secret to the world8 are questions that are often asked4 ,keely has no secret to proclaim to the world4 ,not until the aerial ship is in operation will the world be able to comprehend the nature of ,keely's discoveries4 ,when the distinguished physicist1 ,professor ,dewar1 of the ,royal ,institution of ,great ,britain1 goes to ,america this summer1 he will be instructed by ,mr4 ,keely in his dissociation processes4 ,every man who has passed the mere threshold of science ought to be aware that it is quite possible to be in possession of a series of facts long before he is capable of giving a rational and satisfactory explanation of them--in short1 before he is enabled to discover their causes even4 ,this dead-work has occupied many years of ,keely's life2 and only within the last five years has he reached that degree of perfection which warranted the erection of a scaffolding for the construction of the true edifice of philosophy4 ,we have only to recall the wonderful discoveries which have been made in modern times1 relative to the properties of heat1 of electricity1 of galvanism1 etc41 in order to acknowledge that had any man ventured to anticipate the powers and uses of the steam-engine1 the voltaic pile1 the electrical battery1 or of any other of those mighty instruments by means of which the mind of man has acquired so vast a dominion over the world of matter1 he would probably have been considered a visionary2 and had he been able to exhibit the effects of any of these instruments1 before the principles which regulate their action had become generally known to philosophers1 they would in all likelihood have been attributed to fraud or to juggling4 ,herein lies the secret of ,keely's delay4 ,his work is not yet completed to that point where he can cease experimenting and publish the results of his dead-work to the world4 ,when will he be ready8 is a question often asked2 but it is one that ,god only can answer1 as to the year and day4 ,it now seems as if the time were near at hand1--within this very year2 but not even ,keely himself can fix the date1 until he has finished his present course of experiments1 his graduation of his twenty-seventh and last group of depolar disks1 for effecting change and interchange with polar force4 ,but what are his hypotheses8 ,and what the tenets of his new philosophy8 ,his hypotheses are as antithetic to existing hypotheses in chemistry as the ,newtonian system1 at its first publication1 was antithetic to the vortices of ,descartes4 ,the philosophy is not of his creation2 nor is it a new philosophy4 ,it is as old as the universe4 ,its tenets are unpopular1 heterodox tenets1 but their grandeur1 when compared with prevailing theories1 will cause the latter to appear like the soap-bubbles that ,sir ,william ,drummond said the grown-up children of science amuse themselves with2 whilst the honest vulgar stand gazing in stupid admiration1 dignifying these learned vagaries with the name of science4 ,it is the sole edifice of true philosophy1 the corner-stone of which was laid at ,creation1 when ,god said1 ,let there be light2 and there was light4 ,the scaffolding which our modern ,prometheus has built is not the airy fabric of delusion1 nor the baser fabric of a fraud1 as has been so often asserted4 ,it has been built plank by plank1 upon firm ground1 and every plank is of pure gold1 as will be seen in due time4 ,it has been justly said that we have no ground for assuming that we have approached a limit in the field of discovery1 or for claiming finality in our interpretations of ,nature4 ,we have1 as yet1 only lifted one corner of the curtain1 enabling us to peep at some of the machinery by which her operations are effected1 while much more remains concealed2 and we know little of the marvels which in course of time may be made clear to us4 ,earnest minds in all ages and in all countries have arrived at the same inferences which ,keely has reached in his researches1--viz41 that the one intelligent force in nature is not a mere mathematical dynamism in space and time1 but a true ,power existing in its type and fulness1--deity4 ,you may say that such an inference belongs to religion1 not to science1 but you cannot divorce the two4 ,no systematic distinction between philosophical1 religious1 and scientific ideas can be maintained4 ,all the three run into one another with the most perfect legitimacy4 ,their dissociation can be effected only by art1 their divorce only by violence4 ,great as is the revolution in mechanics which is to take place through this discovery1 it has an equally important bearing on all questions connected with psychical research4 ,once demonstrated1 we shall hear no more of the brain secreting thought1 as the liver secretes bile4 ,the laws of rhythmical harmony1 of assimilation1 of sympathetic association1 will be found governing all things1 in the glorious heavens above us1 down to the least atom upon our earth4 ,leibnitz's assertion1 that perceptivity and its correlative perceptibility are coextensive with the whole sphere of individualized being1 will be accounted for without depriving us of a ,creator4 ,the music of the spheres will be proved a reality1 instead of a figure of speech4 ,st4 ,paul's words1 ,in ,him we live1 and move1 and have our being1 will be better understood4 ,the power of mind over matter will be incontrovertibly demonstrated4 ,the requirement of every demonstration is that it shall give sufficient proof of the truth it asserts4 ,this ,keely is prepared to give1--mechanical demonstration2 and should he really have discovered the fundamental creative law1 which he long since divined must exist1 proving that the universal ether which permeates all molecules is the tangible link between ,god and man1 connecting the infinite with the finite1--that it is the true protoplasm1 or mother element of everything1--we may look for a philosophy which will explain all unexplained phenomena and reconcile the conflicting opinions of scientists4 ,the great law of sympathetic association1 once understood1 will become known as it is1--viz41 as the governing medium of the universe4 ,herein lies the secret1 the revelation of which will usher in the spiritual age foretold by the ,prophets of the ,old ,testament and the ,apostles of the ,new ,testament4 ,inspiration is not confined to prophets and apostles and poets3 the man of science1 the writer1 all who reach out after the ,infinite1 receive their measure of inspiration according to their capacity4 ,we need a new revelation to turn back the tidal wave of materialism which has rolled in upon the scientific world1 as much as ,moses needed one when he sought to penetrate the mysteries of the ,creation2 and our revelation is near at hand1--a revelation which will change the statical ,i am into the dynamical ,i will1--a revelation which1 while teaching us to look from ,nature up to ,nature's ,god1 will reveal to us our own powers as children of ,god1 as heirs of immortality4 ,knowledge1 said ,lord ,beaconsfield1 is like the mystic ladder in the ,patriarch's dream4 ,its base rests on the primeval earth--its crest is lost in the shadowy splendour of the empyrean2 while the great authors who1 for traditionary ages1 have held the chain of science and philosophy1 of poesy and erudition1 are the angels ascending and descending the sacred scale1 maintaining1 as it were1 the communication between man and heaven4 ,this beautiful imagery holds within it that seed of truth1 which is said to exist in the wildest fable2 for1 although all great discoveries1 pertaining to the material world1 have been made gradually1 with much starting on the wrong track1 much false deduction and much worthless result1 spiritual truths can be revealed to man in no other way than by that spiritual influence which maintains communication between the terrestrial and the celestial1 or the material and the spiritual4 ,truth is attained through immediate intuition1 say the ,aryan teachers2 but only by those who have educated their sixth sense2 as will be seen in ,mr4 ,sinclair's new work1 ,vera ,vita2 or1 the ,philosophy of ,sympathy4 ,while the imaginative scientist is puzzling himself about new natural forces and the apparent suspension of old and hitherto invariable laws1 ,sinclair1 in his writings1 shows us that it is because we do not recognize the elements of nature that their influences remain mysterious to us4 ,mr4 ,sinclair is as firm in his belief as is ,mr4 ,keely that this element is the great connecting link between the ,creator and the created1 and that it is capable of rendering more marvellous services to man than all the discovered uses of electricity4 ,the coincidences in the theories of these two philosophers are the more remarkable1 inasmuch as ,mr4 ,sinclair's have their origin1 as set forth in his book ,a ,new ,creed1 in metaphysics2 while ,keely's wide and far-reaching philosophy 7to quote the words of a distinguished physicist7 has a physical genesis1 and has been developed by long years of patient and persistent research4 ,but it is an undisputed fact that1 in countries far distant from each other1 different men have fallen into the same lines of research2 and have made correspondent discoveries1 at the same time1 without having had any communication with each other2 and never has there been a time when so many were testing all things that appear to give proof of the super-sensual element in man4 ,there is a very general impression all over the world1 says ,marie ,correlli1 that the time is ripe for a clearer revelation of ,god and the hidden things of ,god than we have ever had before4 ,all persons who are interested in ,keely's discoveries and the nature of the unknown element discovered by ,keely and ,sinclair1 will find in the writings of the latter a more lucid explanation of sympathetic association than ,keely himself has ever been able to give in writing4 ,the title of this remarkable book would have been more wisely chosen had its author called it ,a ,new ,element and a ,new ,order of ,things4 ,the ,rev4 ,philip ,schaff1 ,d4,d41 says of creeds3--,the ,bible is the word of ,god to man3 the ,creed is the answer of man to ,god4 ,the ,bible is the book to be explained and applied2 the ,creed is the ,church's understanding and summary of the ,bible4 ,it is in this light that ,mr4 ,sinclair's new creed1 human and humane1 should be read4 ,there is no conductivity in the ether lines1 writes ,sinclair1 for selfish desires and motives2 for they are not of the soul1 but are only sounds of the lips 7or wishes of the material part of us71 so that the established connecting-rod between the living soul and the source of life is insulated from desires that are not begotten in sympathy1 and they at once run to earth4 ,where there is no connection there can be no communion4 ,without the natural sympathetic etheric connection between the source of life and the soul1 there can be no communication4 ,a ,new ,creed1 like the sympathetic etheric philosophy of ,keely1 reveals the connecting link between the finite and the ,infinite1 and teaches us that the primal law of evolution and of progress is slowly but surely preparing our race for the time when ,christianity will be something more than a mere profession1 and the brotherhood of humanity will no longer be the meaningless phrase that it now is4 ,we are led to see1 by this pure philosophy1 that our solar system is a type of a healthy social system2 that in it each one affects1 binds1 controls1 sustains1 helps1 makes free each other2 that no star lives for itself alone2 that man was not made to mourn1 and that our sufferings arise from our ignorance of the laws governing the innate motive power within us4 ,the times are not degenerate6 ,men's faith ,mounts higher than of old4 ,no crumbling creed ,can take from the immortal soul its need ,of something greater than itself4 ,the wraith ,of dead belief we cherished in our youth1 ,fades but to let us welcome new born truth4 ,man may not worship at the ancient shrine1 ,prone on his face1 in self-accusing scorn4 ,that night is passed2 he hails a fairer morn1 ,and knows himself a something half divine6 ,no humble worm whose heritage is sin1 ,but part of ,god--he feels the ,christ within6 ,no fierce ,jehovah with a frowning mien ,he worships4 ,nay1 through love1 and not through fear1 ,he seeks the truth1 and finds its source is near6 ,he feels and owns the power of things unseen1 ,where once he scoffed4 ,god's great primeval plan ,is fast unfolding in the soul of man4--,ella ,w4 ,wilcox4 ,,keely ,,and ,,his ,,discoveries4 ,,chapter ,i4 #ahgb ,,to #ahhb4 ,,introductory4 ,within the half-century the hypothetical ether has amply vindicated its novel claim to take its place as a mysterious entity side by side with matter and energy among the ultimate components of the objective universe4444 ,modern science sets before our eyes the comprehensive and glorious idea of a cosmos which is one and the same throughout1 in sun and star and world and atom1 in light and heat and life and mechanism1 in herb and tree and man and animal1 in body1 soul1 and spirit1 mind and matter4--,grant ,allen on ,evolution4 ,the man who can demonstrate the existence of an unsuspected and unknown force has a right1 in the absence of demonstrative proof to the contrary1 to form his own theory of its origin1 and to make it the basis of his own system4 ,keely is looking at physical phenomena and their explanations from a point of view so different from that of the inductive school1 that we hardly know how to combine the two1 or show their bearings upon each other4 ,for myself1 ,i think now1 as ,i thought and said in my address1 that the absolutely exclusive position1 taken up by ,huxley1 ,tyndall1 and the so-called ,material ,school1 is ludicrously indefensible2 and that we should be as perfectly open to evidence in any direction1 as we were #bjjj years ago4--,the ,rev4 ,h4 ,w4 ,watson1 ,d4,sc41 ,f4,r4,s4 ,so many men of learning are now holding ,dr4 ,watson's views that the time seems to have arrived1 in which the theories of ,keely will receive1 from those who are competent to judge of their value1 the attention that they deserve4 ,before entering upon their merits1 or setting them down for others to judge of their worth1 the way must be prepared by showing the claims which they possess from their correspondence with some of the most advanced ideas of the present day1 as well as with the teachings of the wisest men in past centuries4 ,the mode which is the least laborious to accomplish this end1 is by collecting what has been written and printed1 which bears upon1 and elucidates this subject4 ,it is now very generally known that ,mr4 ,keely1 while pursuing a line of experiment in vibrations1 accidentally as ,edison would say1 made his discovery of an energy1 the origin of which was unknown to himself2 and six years passed1 in experiment1 before he was able to repeat its production at will4 ,in the meantime he had exhausted his resources and willingly accepted the proposal of men1 who1 after witnessing the operation of the energy that he was able to show with this unknown force1 offered to organize a company to furnish him with the means to construct an engine to use this force as the motive power1 anticipating immediate success4 ,but discovery is one thing1 invention quite another thing1 and the years rolled on without ,mr4 ,keely's being able to fulfil his promises4 ,in #ahhb1 which was about ten years after the company was formed1 an action at law was brought against him for non-fulfilment of his contract4 ,the ,evening ,bulletin of ,march #cjth of that year thus explains1 truthfully1 the position4 ,,the ,,keely ,,motor4 ,a ,,statement ,,from ,,one ,,of ,,the ,,inventor',s ,,stockholders4 ,to the ,editor of the ,evening ,bulletin3 ,in your issue of last ,tuesday appears an article which deserves attention1 and also calls for some explanation upon that very much misunderstood question of the ,keely motor4 ,from some cause not easy to learn1 there seems to be a tendency to keep only one side of that subject before the public4 ,being one of the unfortunates of the ,keely motor speculation1 interest has led me to investigate not only the invention and the man who has everything to do with it1 but also the management of the company1 which is equally important to those who put their money into the enterprise as an investment4 ,permit me1 therefore1 to state a few of the facts which1 if known1 would very much change some of the popular views now held4 ,there are perhaps a thousand stockholders in the ,keely ,motor ,company4 ,the mass of these1 like myself1 are not the prosecutors in this case against ,mr4 ,keely4 ,we do not believe that ,mr4 ,keely can be forced to divulge any valuable secrets if he possesses them4 ,we do not believe that a case in court is calculated to prolong the inventor's life1 or render it more safe from the accidents to which he is exposed4 ,we do not believe that these proceedings are likely to increase his good will towards the company4 ,some of us know that by purchasing ,keely motor stock1 we have not thereby put our money into the invention1 nor has ,mr4 ,keely had the benefit of it4 ,we also know that some1 if not all1 of the parties to this prosecution1 especially those who are most vehement in its favour under the pretence of protecting the common stockholders1 are selfish to the last degree1 while for themselves they have the least cause to complain4 ,their official records show an utter disregard of the interests of stockholders or the rights of the inventor3 while the success of the invention is to them a secondary consideration4 ,it is they1 and not the inventor1 who have drummed up the customers1 and recommended and sold the stock4 ,they1 and not he1 are answerable to the purchasers4 ,if ,mr4 ,keely is guilty of deception1 they are to say the least equally so4 ,look at a few statements3 ,when the ,keely ,motor ,company was started1 in #ahgd1 its organizers received their stock without paying for it4 ,about three-fourths of the whole amount were thus given away by ,mr4 ,keely4 ,he retained about one-seventh1 and was cheated out of a good portion of that before he had gone far4 ,only #djj shares out of #bj1jjj were retained in the treasury1 and that but a short time2 for these recipients of the dead-head stock made hasty havoc of the market by a rapid unloading of their shares and pocketing the proceeds4 ,so the poor little #djj shares of treasury stock brought only the minimum price to afford temporary relief to a distressed company4 ,the bankrupt condition of this incipient corporation threatened it with a cessation of existence1 unless somebody came to the rescue1 for the 'originals1' who had received a harvest by the sale of their 'free stock1' would not now give a dollar to save the concern4 ,they were all fixed1 but what of the innocent stockholders who had purchased this stock8 ,they should not be allowed to suffer1 as they must if the company went out4 ,so ,mr4 ,keely came to the rescue1 and consented to the following scheme1 which was prepared by schemers1 as the sequel proved4 ,he had two inventions besides the motor1 and they could be handled to advantage in this emergency4 ,these ,mr4 ,keely assigned to the company1 and the stock was increased from #bj1jjj to #ajj1jjj shares4 ,the #hj1jjj new shares were to be divided equally3 #dj1jjj to pay for the inventions1 and #dj1jjj went to the company without one dollar of pay4 ,so1 ,mr4 ,keely received no money in this transaction2 and of the #dj1jjj shares which he should have received1 not #ejjj ever reached him2 fraudulent claims having captured the rest while in the hands of the 'trustee4' ,of the #ejjj shares also1 much had been obligated in advance by the inventor to carry forward the work which otherwise must have been delayed1 so that he had less than #ajjj shares left when all claims were settled4 ,this grand act is called the 'consolidation1' which took place in #ahgi1 and since which all moneys raised by the company have come from the sale of shares out of this #dj1jjj1 which ,mr4 ,keely then gave to the company4 ,by some mysterious operations in the 'management' this ',treasury ,stock' has shrunk away very rapidly1 bringing at times only a fraction of the price which other stocks of the same kind were selling for in the market1 while the little cash which it has brought has only in part been used by ,mr4 ,keely1 and that has been served out to him in a sparing way1 which would be shameful even if he had not furnished it all to begin with4 ,the company now owe to ,mr4 ,keely fifty thousand dollars loaned outright in its early history4 ,to this indebtedness considerable has since been added4 ,the public statements that ,mr4 ,keely has been supplied with large amounts of money from the company are untrue1 while it is true that of those who are regarded as his dupes a half dozen or more have made on an average at least #ej1jjj each from the 'enterprise4' ,the money with which ,mr4 ,keely capitalized the company1 in the first place1 was obtained from the sale of territorial rights to men who have formed other companies for the purpose4 ,if ,mr4 ,keely deserves prosecution by any parties1 it is those who bought these rights1 and not the ring who now control the company with stock which has cost them nothing4 ,if anybody deserves to be sued by the stockholders it is these very persons who recommended and sold them the stock1 and have taken the benefit of it1 and who at the same time are responsible for the miserable management which has caused detention of the work1 distress in the company1 depreciation in the stock and dissatisfaction among stockholders4 ,one4 ,the further history of ,the ,keely ,motor ,bubble will be given later on1 but it is the position in earlier years1 that we must first deal with1 to get a clear comprehension of the causes of the delays which again and again shattered the hopes of the sanguine investors just when they were the most buoyant1 from an apparent increased control of the mysterious force ,keely was handling4 ,further quotations from the press will best show the light in which ,keely's work was regarded by those who considered themselves competent to pass judgment upon him and his efforts4 ,the ,daily ,news in ,philadelphia1 on ,may #beth1 #ahhf1 contained a most sensible editorial1 with the heading ,what has ,keely ,discovered8 ,for a number of years ,mr4 ,john ,w4 ,keely1 of this city1 and various associates have occupied the attention of the public to a greater or less extent1 from time to time4 ,the claim on behalf of ,mr4 ,keely is that he has discovered a new motive power1 so far transcending all previous achievements in this direction1 as to overturn most of the universally recognized conclusions regarding dynamics4 ,of course such a claim was sure to be met with derision1 and the derision was sure of continuance until silenced by the most thorough practical demonstration4 ,discussion of the matter has not seemed profitable in the absence of such a demonstration2 but now it seems proper to note an apparently new status of ,mr4 ,keely's affairs1 as shown by some experiments conducted last ,saturday in the presence of a number of visitors4 ,some1 at least1 of these visitors were qualified for critical observation1 and the noteworthy fact is that ,mr4 ,keely was able to produce1 under their close inspection1 a dynamic result which none of them pretended to account for by any known law of physics1 outside of that which ,mr4 ,keely claims as the base of his operation4 ,he evolved1 almost instantaneously1 according to the united report of those who were present1 a substance having an elastic energy varying from #aj1jjj to #bj1jjj pounds per square inch1 and instantly discharged or liberated it into the atmosphere1 without the evolution of heat in its production1 or of cold on its sudden liberation4 ,these phenomena alone would seem to establish that the substance he is dealing with is one not hitherto known to science4 ,it seems rather frivolous to dismiss this matter with the supposition that trained specialists are to be hoodwinked by concealed springs1 buried pipes for the introduction of compressed air and the like4 ,surely such gentlemen ought very easily to determine at once whether the surroundings and conditions of the experiments were such as to favour any kind of legerdemain2 and if they found them so1 it is strange that they should spend some hours in investigating that which has been asserted to be 'a transparent humbug4' ,the appearances are that ,mr4 ,keely has at least removed his enterprise from the domain of ridicule to that of respectful investigation1 and this1 after all1 is great progress4 ,on ,wednesday1 ,july #bhth1 #ahhf1 the ,public ,ledger had a leader headed1 ,let us have some actual useful ,work4 ,with regard to the occasional revivals of the ,keely motor1 whether annual1 semi-annual1 or biennial1 as they have come along in the last ten or a dozen years1 the ,ledger has paid but little attention to them for a long time2 and possibly this last display last week might have been allowed to take the same unnoticed course1 but that the whizz of the big sphere seems to have been so rapid1 and the racket so stunning1 as to more greatly puzzle those present at the exhibition than on any former occasion4 ,the matter for a long time has presented itself to us in but two aspects mainly4 ,first1 there was large public interest in the asserted development of physical force by new and very strange means--very interesting if there really was a probability of a new device or new means of developing power that could be harnessed and made to do useful work2 and second1 so far as the matter took the form of exploiting a private enterprise or stimulating a boom for a private speculation1 there was but very limited interest for the public4 ,in this latter aspect it was almost exclusively an affair between ,mr4 ,keely and the stockholders of his company1 who felt willing to back their faith in the substantiality of his invention or discovery1 by investing their money in the company's stock4 ,this was no affair for a public journal to meddle in1 unless some imposture was designed that might affect the general public4 ,that is the way the ,ledger has regarded the matter for several years2 and1 as during that period it seemed to be almost exclusively a private matter of little public interest1 we have had little or no concern with it4 ,of course the ,ledger stood ready all the time1 as it stands now ready1 to welcome anything that promises to be useful or of advantage in any way as an addition to the mechanical or other working facilities of our day4 ,that ,mr4 ,keely might have a clue to such an addition we did not dispute on the mere ground that it was new or strange1 or because experts pronounced it impossible2 for many stranger things have happened4 ,mankind1 even those who are illumined by the highest human knowledge and intelligence1 do not yet know all that is to be known1 as we are reminded almost every day by the strides of scientific and mechanical progress4 ,we would rather have found ,mr4 ,keely less inclined to be mysterious2 we could have wished him to have been less disposed to talk in terms that sound very like meaningless jargon to most well-informed persons2 but still we did not think it proper1 or fair1 or wise1 to reject his claims on these grounds1 but have simply let them rest in abeyance1 so far as the ,ledger is concerned1 because behind all this1 and behind many more such essays1 is the possibility that the success of some one of them may solve the problem of what is to be done when the world's supply of fuel1 whether in form of wood1 or coal1 or peat1 or gas1 is either practically exhausted or to be got at only at a cost that would largely preclude its use4 ,mr4 ,keely1 we say1 may have a clue to that1 as also may some one of those who are experimenting with the several manifestations of electric or magnetic force4 ,what we would have had ,mr4 ,keely do1 and1 until he does it1 his operations have but little practical value in the sight of the ,ledger1 would have been to harness his motor to do some useful work1 to gear it by cogwheel or by belt and pulley1 or by some other mechanical device1 to a main shaft that has driving lathes1 or planers1 or other machines--something that was doing actual useful work1 day in and day out1 as other machines do4 ,of machines that will manifest great pressure on a gauge1 of contrivances that have enormous lifting power1 of explosives that demonstrate stupendous force1 the appliances of science and the mechanic arts have large numbers1 and they are handier and more manageable than any ,mr4 ,keely has shown4 ,these are not to the point--except1 perhaps1 to persons endowed with large faith4 ,the machine that will do actual1 useful1 large work1 by a manipulation of new energy1 or by a display of energy by new and manageable means1 this or these are the things the public and the ,ledger will be glad to hail4 ,at this time ,mr4 ,keely had not reached that stage in his researches when he could carry out the suggestions made by the able writer of the ,ledger leader2 and if our discoverer of an unknown force had not been known to some persons endowed with large faith in his discovery1 it would have been lost to the world4 ,an anonymous writer has said the idea that living nature is not a collection of dead-heads1 never seems to have struck the non-progressivists4 ,the thing that is has been1 and the thing that is will continue to be2 this is the sum and substance of the doctrine they profess4 ,they commit the mistake of supposing they live in a finished planet when in reality they exist on an orb that has relatively just begun to live4 ,the time allowed us for observation and study of nature and of ourselves1 is limited in a marked degree4 ,just when we are beginning to know how to read the book1 we are forced to close its pages because the intellectual eyesight finds itself within the trammels of age4 ,all we can do is to make a hit here1 and a hit there1 and to hand on our little bit of intelligence to those who come after us1 in the hope that they also will keep their eyes and ears open1 and1 in like manner1 hand on a cumulative store of knowledge to their heirs and successors4 ,during the brief span of a man's existence1 then1 it is difficult for him to prove much progress either in himself or in his surroundings4 ,the eternal hills seem the same to him when the light of life dies out1 as when first his eyes beheld their outlines4 ,stern1 uncompromising1 apparently immutable1 the hills remain to him the type of all that is fixed1 all that is unchangeable around4 ,yet this is not the story of science4 ,tennyson1 who is always true to nature1 says3-- ,the hills are shadows1 and they flow ,from form to form1 and nothing stands2 ,they melt like mists1 the solid lands2 ,like clouds they shape themselves and go4 ,in ,memoriam1 cxxiii41 #bnd ,stanza4 ,this is good poetry2 better still1 it is good science4 ,the ,himalayas1 big and grand as they are1 must represent mountains whose rise was a thing of a very recent date1 geologically speaking4 ,this is proved1 because we see rocks belonging to a relatively recent age1 appearing as part and parcel of their lofty peaks4 ,very different is the case with the hills and mountains of1 say1 north-western ,scotland4 ,there you come upon peaks of an age well-nigh coval with the world's earliest settling down to a steady1 solid1 and respectable existence4 ,the ,scottish hills are the old1 the very old1 aristocrats of the cosmical circle2 the ,himalayas1 ,alps1 and the rest1 are the new race whose origin goes not further back than a generation1 as it were4 ,yet1 about the oldest of the mountains there is nothing which is absolutely enduring4 ,equally with the newer hills1 geological progress and action are written on the face of their history4 ,the hills are only phases of cosmical arrangement2 they are here in the to-day of the world2 they may be gone in the world's to-morrow4 ,before ,science had learned to lisp this1 the prophetic word of men moved by the ,holy ,ghost had said3 ,of old ,thou hast laid the foundations of the earth1 and the heavens are the work of ,thy hands4 ,they shall perish1 but ,thou remainest2 yea1 all of them shall wax old like a garment1 and as a vesture shalt ,thou change them and they shall be changed4 ,the world is neither perfect nor finished in a geological sense1 any more than it is perfect in an ethical sense4 ,it is full of progressive action everywhere1 and1 to quote from another author1 our planet and our solar system are but as the small dust of the balance in the colossal scale of the worlds that are4 ,had there been no one to read the future in the light of the past1 among those who witnessed the production of the force discovered by ,keely in #ahgb1 he could not have continued his researches1 as he has done during these intervening years1 from lack of the funds necessary to carry them on4 ,but there were men who knew the worth of the discovery1 and who1 sanguine as to almost immediate results1 did something more than stand idly ready to welcome them when produced4 ,they furnished the money with which ,keely laboured year after year1 and encouraged him to persevere1 when without such aid he might have been forced to abandon his researches for want of the necessaries of life4 ,during this period1 ,keely's discovery was only thought of in reference to its commercial value1 and for a decade he made no progress3 but1 after his researches led up to the conviction that he was on the road to another and infinitely more important discovery1 namely1 the source of life and the connecting link between intelligent will and matter1 his progress has been almost uninterrupted4 ,his ambition is not only to give a costless motive power to the world1 but to make clear to men of science the path he is exploring4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 #ahhb ,,to #ahhf4 ,,ether ,,the ,,true ,,protoplasm1 ,,an ,,epitome ,,of ,,macvicar',s ,,sketch ,,of ,a ,,philosophy4 ,all that has been predicted of atoms1 their attractions and repulsions1 according to the primary laws of their being1 only becomes intelligible when we assume the presence of mind4--,sir ,john ,f4 ,w4 ,herschell 7#ahfe74 ,it is in no small degree reassuring to find that we are not chained to inert matter1 but to the living energies of its forms4444 ,this leads us to the inference1 long suspected1 that all matter1 as well as the ethereal medium itself consists ultimately of one and the same primordial element4--,col4 ,a4 ,t4 ,fraser1 ,darkness and ,light in the ,land of ,egypt4 ,for ten years ,keely's demonstrations were confined to the liberation1 at will1 of the energy he had stumbled over while experimenting on vibrations in #ahgb2 and his efforts were put forth for the construction of the perfect engine1 which he had promised to ,the ,keely ,motor ,company4 ,he made the mistake of pursuing his researches on the line of invention instead of discovery4 ,all his thoughts were concentrated in this direction up to the year #ahhb4 ,engine after engine was abandoned and sold as old metal1 in his repeated failures to construct one that would keep up the rotary motion of the ether that was necessary to hold it in any structure4 ,explosion after explosion occurred1 sometimes harmless to him1 at other times laying him up for weeks at a time4 ,two more years were lost in efforts to devise an automatic arrangement1 which should enable the machine1 invented by ,keely for liberating the energy1 to be handled by any operator1 and it was not until #ahhd that steady progress was seen1 from year to year1 as the result of his enlarged researches4 ,when ,keely was asked1 at this time1 how long he thought it would be before he would have the engine he was then at work upon ready to patent1 he illustrated his situation by an anecdote3 ,a man fell down1 one dark night1 into a mine2 catching a rope in his descent1 he clung to it until morning4 ,with the first glimpse of daylight1 he saw that had he let go his hold of the rope he would have had but a few inches to fall4 ,i am precisely in the situation of that man4 ,i do not know how near success may be1 nor yet how far off it is4 ,august #eth1 #ahhe1 the ,new ,york ,home ,journal announced that ,keely had imprisoned the ether2 and1 as was then wrongly supposed1 that the unknown force was the ether itself2 not the medium of the force1 as it is now known to be4 ,the late ,george ,perry1 who was then editor of that journal1 heralded the announcement with these comments3--,no object seems to be too high or remote for human endeavour4 ,it is not strange that some of these attempts should stagger the faith of all but the boldest imaginations4 ,a notable example of this class is the famous etheric motor invented by ,keely1 of ,philadelphia1 and the subject of a communication which we print below from a well-known ,american lady in ,italy4 ,the inventor claims to have found a new force1 one that entirely transcends those that have been hitherto appropriated for human use4 ,heat1 steam1 electricity1 magnetism are but crude antetypes of this new discovery4 ,it is essentially the creator of these forces4 ,it is scarcely less than the 'primum mobile4' ,indeed in reading the exposition of its potentialities one can hardly help doubting whether the concrete matter of our earth is not too weak and volatile to contain1 restrain1 and direct this vast cosmic energy except in infinitesimal proportions4 ,how shall iron and steel stand before the power which builds up and clasps the very atoms of their mass8 ,where shall the inventor look for 'safety discs' to stay his new-found force1 when every substance within his reach is but a residuum of the activity of this identical principle8 ,how shall strength of materials avail against the power that gives1 and indeed is1 strength of materials8 ,this1 however1 is but a metaphysical doubt1 and as the invention has already demonstrated its practical efficiency on a small scale1 there is a presumption that it may be extended to the higher degrees4 ,at all events1 whether the force can or cannot be harnessed to do the daily work of the world1 the discovery is one that will mark an epoch in the progress of science and give the inventor and his patrons a meed of immortality4 ,granted they are but poets building a lofty cosmical rhyme1 their work shall have not the less an enduring honour4 ,the ,new ,force--,etheric ,vapour4 ,the discoverer of a hitherto unknown force in nature which1 when certain inventions are perfected1 will create a revolution in science1 as well as in mechanics1 has for many years concentrated his mind upon gaining supreme control over one of nature's greatest and grandest forces4 ,or1 more correctly speaking1 in efforts to control and apply to mechanics one of the various manifestations of the one force in nature4 ,the force which binds the atoms1 which controls secreting glands1 ,is the same that guides the planets1 acting by divine commands4 ,the hypothetical ether conceived of by scientists1 to account for the transmission of light1 is not hypothetical to this discoverer4 ,he knows its nature and its power4 ,by the operation of an instrument of his own invention1 he can release it at will from the suspension in which it is always held in our atmosphere4 ,it is so liberated1 by an almost instantaneous process of intense vibratory action1 and passed through a tube the opening of which is no larger than a pin's head1 furnishing sufficient power to run a one hundred horse-power engine4 ,the importance of this discovery cannot be conceived2 its limit seems boundless2 its value cannot be put in figures4 ,step by step1 with a patient perseverance which one day the world will honour1 this man of genius has made his researches1 fighting with and overcoming difficulties which seemed insurmountable1 during years in which no disinterested hands were extended to aid him1 no encouraging words of appreciation bestowed upon him by the scientists whom he vainly tried to interest in his experiments2 assailed by calumnies1 which1 emanating from those who should have been the first to extend aid1 have over and over pierced his noble heart like poisoned arrows4 ,history will not forget that1 in the nineteenth century1 the story of ,prometheus found a counterpart1 and that the greatest man of the age1 seeking to scale the heavens to bring down blessings for mankind1 met with ,prometheus's reward from the vultures of calumny who1 up to the present moment1 have not spared their talons upon him4 ,the dangerous conditions attending the introductory features of the development of etheric vapour are not yet entirely overcome2 but this throws no shadow of a doubt as to the inventor's eventual success in the minds of those who know the magnitude of the difficulties he has already mastered4 ,o4 ,w4 ,babcock1 in an ,american journal says of this discovery1 ,human comprehension is inadequate to grasp its possibilities or power1 for prosperity and for peace4 ,it includes all that relates mechanically to travel1 manufacture1 mining1 engineering and warfare4 ,the discoverer has entered a new world1 and although an unexplored wilderness of untold wealth lies beyond1 he is treading firmly its border1 which daily widens as with ever-increasing interest he pursues his explorations4 ,he has passed the dreary realm where scientists are groping4 ,his researches are made in the open field of elemental force1 where gravity1 inertia1 cohesion1 momentum are disturbed in their haunts and diverted to use2 where1 from the unity of origin1 emanates infinite energy in its diversified forms1 and to this ,i would add--where he1 the discoverer1 is able to look from nature up to nature's ,god1 understanding and explaining1 as no mortal ever before understood and explained1 how simple is the way in which ,god works ,his wonders to perform4 ,a compilation of ,macvicar's ,sketch of a ,philosophy1 entitled ,ether the true ,protoplasm1 was sent to ,mr4 ,keely2 and shortly after1 ,mrs4 ,hughes' book on the evolution of tones and colours4 ,mr4 ,keely will himself1 in his theoretical expos make known the manner in which he was led1 by the writings of ,dr4 ,macvicar and ,mrs4 ,hughes1 into the knowledge which raised the veil that had before hidden from him the operations of ,nature with this the most powerful and most general of all her forces2 operations which will explain all that is now mysterious to us in the workings of gravity4 ,the question has been asked whether science1 having destroyed faith1 has supplied us with anything better4 ,but has science destroyed faith8 ,certainly not4 ,there would be no such thing as counterfeit coin were it not for the existence of sterling gold4 ,true science has its counterfeit1 and it is due to spurious science that the bulwarks of religious faith have been besieged2 but they are not destroyed4 ,drummond says that it will be the splendid task of the future theology to disclose to scepticism the naturalness of the supernatural4 ,the pure ,philosophy which true science seems about to reveal discloses not a universe of dead matter1 but a universe alive from its core to its outermost extremity1 and animated by mind and means1 to which matter1 perfectly organized1 is absolutely subservient4 ,it illuminates mysteries of nature which have only been partially revealed to us1 and lifts the veil which has hitherto shrouded in darkness still greater mysteries involved in this universal power1 which keeps and sustains all systems of worlds in their relation towards each and all4 ,more and more clearly shall we be led by true science to see that the universe is founded upon a distinct idea1 and that the harmony of this distinct idea is manifested in all of ,god's works4 ,sir ,isaac ,newton1 in his ,fundamental ,principles of ,natural ,philosophy1 calls the great magnetic agent the soul of the world1 and says1 all senses are excited by this spirit1 and through it the animals move their limbs2 but these things cannot be explained in few words1 and we have not yet sufficient experience to determine fully the laws by which this universal spirit operates4 ,centuries may pass before these laws will be fully understood2 but ,etheric ,philosophy casts a plummet into depths that have never been sounded1 and reveals this unparticled substance1 the cosmic matter1 the primal stuff1 the celestial ocean of universal ether1 as the true protoplasm1 and the medium by which mind shapes matter and gives it all its properties4 ,it teaches us that1 through it1 we are connected in sympathy with all other souls and with all the objects of nature1 even1 to the stars and all the heavenly bodies4 ,but even though we do not understand the laws which control its operations1 we find therein a legitimate field of research4 ,it is surely more legitimate for science to ascribe failures in such researches to our still existing ignorance of that which we may possibly know in time than to set such laws down as unknowable4 ,thought in its spontaneity has the run of the universe1 and there should be no bar to discovery4 ,our only hope1 says ,macvicar1 lies in the universality of the cosmical laws and the ultimate homogeneity of created substances1 or reality4 ,in stating some of the various hypotheses which have been put forward by ,macvicar1 more as a sketch than as a new system of philosophy1 it is not necessary to make any comments4 ,if the scaffolding be good the edifice will appear in time4 ,if worthless1 no edifice can be constructed4 ,therefore1 it must be remembered that it is only with the scaffolding that we have to do at present4 ,if it has been left for our age to demonstrate the truth or the falsity of certain deductions made in past ages--if we arrive at a partial knowledge1 even1 of truths which ancient wisdom saw with dim vision1 we must never forget that our century has had the benefit of the light reflected down the stream of time4 ,macvicar's ,sketch of a ,philosophy was published in #ahfh4 ,he said that his ideas would not be acceptable1 or even intelligible1 to an age when the popular demand is for very light reading2 when science is marvellously content with the attainments which it has already made2 and when1 as to the method of science we are told1 with more and more confidence every day1 that all we can do for the discovery of realities is to go out of doors1 leaving 'the inner man' all alone1 and to compare the odour of the present with the smell of the past1 and then1 turning our noses towards the future1 to follow them wherever they may lead us4 ,he continues1 ,sensation1 we are taught1 is the alone architect of all trustworthy knowledge2 the author both as to form and substance of all that is belief-worthy4 ,no such thing as intuition1 we are told2 reason merely a habit1 rising from the long-continued use of the organism4 ,this looking only to mechanism is as much the plague and sorrow of our times as it was when ,macvicar complained of it as divorcing science from philosophy4 ,philosophic wisdom1 says ,willcox1 is a structure built up of all knowledges--grand and sublime3 permanent1 not of the present nor the past4 ,science holds1 in its relation to philosophy1 the same position that theology sustains to religion4 ,en dehors de toutes les sciences spciales et au-dessus d'elles1 il y a lieu une science plus haute et plus gnrale1 et1 c'est ce qu' on appelle philosophie4--7,paul ,janet1 ,revue des ,deux ,mondes47 ,of what nature are the ideas which ,macvicar was so sure would be unpopular8 ,in compiling from his writings1 such are selected as seem to be the best1 toward elucidating the mysteries which lie in the operation of the laws governing the universal ether1 so far as his hypotheses carried him4 ,if matter without form preceded the creation of vitality1 it is only when the principle of life had been given1 says ,charpignon1 that the intrinsic properties of atoms were compelled1 by the law of affinities1 to form individualities2 which1 from that moment1 becoming a centre of action1 were enabled to act as modifying causes of the principle of life1 and assimilate themselves to it1 according to the ends of their creation4 ,here is a conjecture1 to start with1 that it will be well to remember2 for1 as in the hypotheses of ,macvicar and the demonstrations of ,keely1 the law of assimilation is made the pivot upon which all turns1 providing at once for the free and the forced1 at once for mind and for matter1 and placing them in a scientific relationship to one another4 ,this law ,macvicar calls the cosmical law1 because to it alone1 ever operating under the eye and fulfilling the design of the great ,creator who is always and in all places immanent to ,his creation1 an appeal is ever made4 ,by this law a far greater number of the phenomena of nature and the laboratory can be explained than have been otherwise explained by scores of laws which are frankly admitted to be empirical4 ,surely this is no slight claim for this law to be studied1 with a view to its acceptance or rejection4 ,to repeat1 this law is to the effect that every individualized object tends to assimilate itself to itself1 in successive moments of its existence1 and all objects to assimilate one another4 ,the ground of it is1 that the simple and pure substance of creation1 has for its special function to manifest the ,creator2 and consequently to assimilate itself to ,his will and attributes1 in so far as the finite can assimilate itself to the ,infinite4 ,hence it is1 in its own nature1 wholly plastic or devoid of fixed innate properties1 and wholly assimilative1 both with respect to its own portions or parts and to surrounding objects1 as well as to its position in space1 and1 in so far as it is capable1 to the mind of the ,creator4 ,thus1 there immediately awake1 in the material elements1 individuality and the properties of sphericity1 elasticity1 and inertia1 along with a tendency to be assimilated as to place1 or1 as it is commonly called1 reciprocal attraction4 ,hence1 in the first place1 the construction in the ether1 or realm of light1 of groups of ethereal elements1 generating material elements4 ,hence1 secondly1 a tendency in the material elements1 when previously distributed in space1 to form into groups1 in which their ethereal atmospheres may become completely confluent2 while their material nuclei1 being possessed of a more powerful individuality than ethereal elements1 come into juxtaposition merely1 thus constituting molecules4 ,by legitimate deductions from cosmical law1 the forms and structures of these molecules must always be as symmetrical as the reaction of their own constituent particles1 and that of their surroundings1 will allow4 ,the law of assimilation gives the same results as mathematics in determining the forms of systems of equal1 and similar1 elastic and reciprocally attractive spherical forces1 or centres of force1 when they have settled in a state of equilibrium2 proving these forms to be symmetrical in the highest degree4 ,here1 however1 ,macvicar and ,keely differ1 in hypothesis1 as to the structure of the ultimate material element2 but this difference does not affect the scaffolding of pure philosophy1 in which everything that is cognizable has its own place1 is on a solid basis1 is harmonious with its surroundings1 and is explained and justified by them3--raising chemistry to the level and bringing it within the sphere of mechanics2 investing its objects1 at the same time1 with all the distinctness of the objects of other branches of natural science4 ,because the chemist in his laboratory cannot succeed in decomposing certain substances1 it has been inferred that they are essentially undecomposable1 simple and untransformable2 and on this hypothesis the whole science of mineralogy proceeds4 ,but when it is considered that all of these chemical atoms1 before they have come into the chemist's hands1 have been securely consolidated and mineralized1 so as to be able to withstand the ordeal of the volcano and the central heat1 compared with which the most powerful analytic agencies of the laboratory are but a mimicry1 is it for a moment to be supposed1 although their internal structure were still molecular1 that they would break down in the chemist's hands8 ,surely1 all his containing vessels1 which are but things of human art1 must go to pieces before them4 ,the present prevailing theory of development contradicts one half by the other half4 ,it extends the doctrine of development and transmutation to species which happen to be visible to such eyes as we have2 it denies it to such as happen to be invisible to us4 ,if all animals and plants have been obtained by the secular synthesis of transformed monera1 and the differentiation of the organs composing them--thus giving in the last analysis one form and kind of protoplasm as the root of all2 the pursuit of the same line of thought--the same theory1 applied to the atoms of the chemist1 with their various properties and atomic weights1 gives1 as the common ground of all1 a single material element2 each chemical atom being a structure composed of this material element1 but so stable as to be indecomposable in the laboratory4 ,let this be granted1 as asserted by ,macvicar in #ahfh1 and by ,keely now1 and the theory of evolution1 whatever may be the case as to its cogency1 at least possesses a scientific form4 ,it is no longer a conception which breaks down midway between its first and its last terms4 ,but letting science1 in this respect1 stand for the present as it is1 and supposing the seventy recognized elements of the laboratory 7which do not include the twenty or more new elements recently said to have been discovered by ,krss and ,nilson in certain rare ,scandinavian minerals7 or rather1 perhaps1 some very high multiple of their number to constitute that cosmic gas from which the solar system has been evolved1 the theory of development shows itself to be as imperfect on the great scale1 and in point of extent1 as it is in point of homogeneity in its intimate material4 ,macvicar continues--,beyond that cosmic gas there certainly is the ether1 a medium which no longer can be ignored in any physical theory of nature4 ,what1 then1 is the relation of the cosmic gas to the ether8 ,evolutionists do not answer this question1 but ,macvicar seeks to render the whole system of thought homogeneous1 and to show that1 just as all organisms are the synthetic developments of one kind of moneron1 and all chemical atoms and molecules the synthetic development of one kind of material element1 so is the material element a synthetic development of ethereal elements4 ,these also are ,mr4 ,keely's views2 but neither ,macvicar nor ,keely rest in the conception of a congeries of particles which are wholly blind and devoid of feeling and thought1 diffused throughout all space1 believing such particles to be the first of things4 ,reason1 if it is to enjoy intellectual repose1 can have it only in finding1 beyond and above all things else1 a unity1 a power1 intelligence1 personality--in one word1 ,god4 ,this is the only legitimate haven of a theory of development3 sending back the tide of materialism and pantheism which has swept its mire over our age into the ebb again2 as1 after having reached the full1 it has so often done already1 before the constitutional instincts or inspirations of humanity1 with which speculative minds may1 indeed1 dally for a generation but which are ultimately inexorable4 ,macvicar maintains with ,keely that from ,god1 as the ,author of all1 nature may be reached with those very features which it is seen to possess2 that it is essential to every philosophy1 which is or shall be in harmony with intelligence1 that it shall be based upon a unity2 that no philosophy possesses all the claims to intellectual regard which it may possibly have1 unless that unity be an intelligent ,being2 that to suppose thought and feeling to wake up for the first time in that which was previously blind and dead from all eternity1 is nothing short of absurd to those who are led by the evidence of design1 to look from nature up to nature's ,god1 in whom all nature lives and moves and has its being4 ,while the protoplasm of the biologist is a substance which is more or less opaque or visible1 the protoplasm now conceived of as the material of the whole creation in its first state1 when development is to begin1 must1 on the contrary1 be altogether homogeneous and invisible4 ,but none the less is it entitled to the name of protoplasm2 nay1 it alone must be justly entitled to that name1 for it is the first of created things1 and1 being the product of an ,almighty ,being1 it must be altogether plastic in ,his hands4 ,it can have no constitution of its own derived from itself2 but must1 so far as the finite can1 with respect to the infinite1 reflect1 represent1 embody1 show forth ,his attributes and being4 ,still1 there is limitation to this4 ,certain properties and demands with regard to that which exists1 with limited extension1 in space1 are inexorable4 ,macvicar reasons that with such limitations the primal substance of creation must be fully obedient or assimilated to the ,creator--not in a transient manner1 but permanently2 and that in its nature the primal substance1 the true protoplasm1 must be an assimilative substance4 ,granting that this protoplasm be partitioned into individualities1 he makes the deduction that each and all of these individualized beings and things would1 up to the full measure of their capacity1 not only tend to assimilate themselves to the ever-present ,being to whom they owe their own being1 but they would tend also to assimilate themselves each to itself1 with respect both to space and time2 as also that they would all tend to assimilate one another4 ,taking this as the cosmical mode of action1 or law1 and on the strength of this law alone1 without invoking the aid of any other law1 he attempts to explain all those phenomena to which the physicist1 the chemist1 and the biologist usually address themselves4 ,illustrating the manner in which this law applies itself to phenomena1 he gives as the first products of this law the perpetuation of an original mode of existence1 and the establishment of permanence of properties under certain restrictions2 the ground of the remarkable persistency and permanence of well-constituted species2 a general harmony and homology throughout all creation3 proceeding to illustrate its action on the mental or spiritual world2 accounting for perception1 remembrance1 reasoning1 imagining1 judging1 and upon all our other modes of mental activity1 as operations of the cosmical law of assimilation4 ,in the world of physics he gives1 as illustrations of this same law of assimilation1 attraction1 inertia1 elasticity1 heredity1 reversion1 symmetry culminating in sphericity or symmetrical cellularity1 chemical and electrical action2 especially in voltaic action the influence and the persistence of this law is most remarkably displayed4 ,by the way of familiar illustration1 he takes the original voltaic cell1 and without attempting to explain how one solid1 copper or platinum1 comes to be less assimilable to a liquid than another1 such as zinc1 he shows that just what we are to expect1 from this law of assimilation1 takes place--viz41 that at the zinc there tends to form a stratum of oxygen1 and that1 at the platinum1 there tends to form a stratum of hydrogen4 ,pursuing the old view as to the cause of the state of tension induced in the dilute sulphuric acid1 the continuous decomposition of the water1 the solidifying action of the zinc surface1 he confines his attention to the current of force instituted by the oxygen2 advancing the idea that this is not merely force in general1 of which all that is to be considered is its quantity and direction2 but force1 of which the form of its elements or their formative power is also to be considered2--that formative power being representative or productive of oxygen4 ,to the objection that such a conception is occult and mysterious1 he asks if it is more occult and mysterious than what is implied and confessed to be hid under the term electricity1 or in the phenomena of heredity1 or than anything else which is adduced as a cause of a particular phenomenon4 ,the cosmical law of assimilation explains all these phenomena1 and1 without any special hypothesis1 is precisely what is wanted1 in order to render natural knowledge as a whole accessible to the student3 something which puts him in possession1 from the first1 of a master-thought1 which1 if he carry it along with him1 will present all nature as a harmony2 explaining all that stands in need of explanation4 ,macvicar continues3-- ,if it be asked how possibly out of one law1 and such a one1 there could arise anything like that endless variety which nature displays1 the answer is1 that the law operates between two limits1 poles1 or points of assimilation1 which are entirely dissimilar1 and by two processes simultaneously1 analysis and synthesis1 which are the opposites of each other4 ,hence it comes to pass that actual nature is a web1 in which unity and multiplicity1 identity and difference1 are everywhere interwoven1 and in such harmony that nature is everywhere beautiful4 ,it is not necessary here to repeat the illustrations by which ,macvicar seeks to demonstrate that existence is force--self-manifesting1 or spontaneously radiant1 so to speak1 into that which is idea1 if there be a recipient of ideas1 or a percipient of ideas2 or1 more generally1 a percipient within the sphere of its action4 ,he does not prescribe any limits1 in space1 as to the extent of this self-manifesting power4 ,thus1 it is one of the most certain facts in physics that every atom of this planet1 nay1 every atom of the planet ,neptune1 whose distance from the sun is thirty times as great as our distance1 manifests itself to every atom of this planet--not1 indeed1 as a percept1 but as the subject and the object of attraction or motion4 ,nay1 by the aid of the ether1 which is the grand medium whereby the self-manifesting power of being is enabled to take effect at a distance when no other being is interposed1 the fixed stars manifest themselves at our planet1 though their distances be inconceivably great4 ,distant objects acting like all objects assimilatively1 assimilate the intervening ether and the optic apparatus to themselves1 and thus render themselves perceptible4 ,this they do1 indeed1 only under great limitation1 imposed by the laws of inertia or motion in space1 to which the ether is subject--limitation which1 in man1 it requires self-teaching and experience to remove1 so that he may perceive the object in its true forms and dimensions4 ,but this is only man's peculiarity1 in consequence of his organic defects at birth4 ,the chick1 the day it leaves the egg1 can run up with equal precision to a crumb of bread1 or to an ant's egg at a distance4 ,and so with all species whose myo-neuro-cerebral system functions perfectly from their birth4 ,at his best1 the embodied mind in man sees objects only in perspective4 ,but the nature of this self-manifesting power need not be dwelt upon1 since it is only the existence of this power that is insisted upon4 ,how far beyond the visible and tangible parts of the body1 the spirit1 as a power exerting some kind of action or other1 extends1 ,macvicar thinks cannot be determined4 ,no doubt1 every force has a centre of action2 but as to the full extent in space of a unit of natural force1 as an agent of one kind or another1 no limits can be assigned4 ,who shall tell us the boundary in the outward of that power which says ,i will1 ,i feel1 ,i see8 ,its modes of acting mechanically are1 no doubt1 limited to the extent of the investing organism4 ,nay1 in order to their extending even so far1 it is necessary that the unity of the organism be maintained by the healthy integrity of the nervous system4 ,in that case consciousness claims all the organism as its domain2 and not only when the organism is entire does it refer any pain that arises to the region that is hurt1 but after a limb has been amputated1 and when it exists only as a phantom1 consciousness still feels towards it as if it were still the old reality4 ,such is the effect of habit1 or present assimilation to previous practice4 ,our cosmical law1 the law of assimilation1 must determine1 if not the nature1 at least the mode of action of this force--this self-manifesting power--for plainly this action must be assimilative4 ,and that it is so1 when giving rise to perception1 is clearly and distinctly seen2 for what is the perceiving of an object1 but the mind1 as a percipient1 assimilating itself to that object8 and what is the percept or remembrance of the object1 which remains in the mind but the idea--that is1 the assimilated symbol of the object1 which1 however1 in consequence of the intrusion in the perception of the mind's own activity1 and of other previously acquired ideas1 as also the perceptive image is often very defective as a representation of the reality perceived8 ,we may say that this self-manifesting power1 which is thus the characteristic of all that exists1 is the agency provided whereby the cosmical law of assimilation shall be realized1 though the intimate nature of that agency remains1 as now1 wholly inscrutable4 ,nor can it be said to be physical until it is embodied in the ether4 ,in that case1 it is rhythmical1 or undulatory1 and formally representative of the object whence it emanates4 ,but it is enough to know that the most intimate and ultimate property--the characteristic1 in short1 of that which exists--is self-manifesting power4 ,now1 the existence of a self-manifesting power in an object implies that the object is itself a power or force1 or an aggregate of such4 ,this is enough for the purposes of philosophy and science1 and we only deceive ourselves when we suppose that we can think of anything that exists and which is not at the same time a force or power4444 ,of most things that exist1 if not of all1 let us say that they are capable of existing in either of two states--the dynamical or the statical--and that1 when viewed as dynamical1 they are forces or powers2 when viewed as statical1 they are substances4 ,when we exhaust or think away the properties of existence1 the last which vanishes is self-manifesting power in the object which exists1 this property being such that when it vanishes so does the object to which existence was awarded4 ,in the science of the day it is maintained by our most popular authors and lecturers that the physical forces--taken in the singular number1 physical force--is the last word1 the ultimate principle4 ,the physical forces are represented as all that there is for ,god1 whereas they are but as the fingers of ,god4 ,the idea of antecedent design1 either in reference to nature as a whole1 or in reference to any object in particular1 is dropped as unscientific1 or repudiated as unsound2 in short1 a reference to the physical forces1 is the last word permitted in any treatise1 if that treatise is to be admitted as possessing a scientific character4 ,or1 if there be one word more1 it is only the correlation of those same physical forces1 and their conservation1 or persistence eternally in the same amount of energy in the universe4 ,in their own place and within their own sphere1 these are physical truths1 which are of the greatest value4 ,the former is a wholesome relapse into the old philosophy of nature4 ,the latter is also a return to a view which is more sound than that which was popular before the doctrine of conservation was resuscitated4 ,descartes' opinion1 that there was a conservation of motion in the universe1 was demonstrated by ,newton to be a mistake4 ,leibnitz adjusted the truth between these great men1 showing that it was not motion1 but the possibility or means of motion--in one word1 energy--that was conserved in the universe4 ,the doctrine of the conservation of energy amounts to nothing more than this1 that inasmuch as every ultimate atom of matter is perfectly elastic1 so is the whole universe of atoms perfectly elastic4 ,hence it is a doctrine which cannot be legitimately extended beyond the merely material sphere2 except on the assumption that matter is the only reality1 and that there is no such thing as a spiritual world at all--an assumption which1 however often it has been made1 serves only to awaken a prevailing voice to the contrary1 and the firm vote of a large majority to the effect that mind exists as well as matter4 ,taking the law of assimilation as the cosmical law1 together with self-manifesting power as the characteristic of being1 we reach a primary classification of created objects1 which corresponds with that which is known as mind and matter--or rather let us say mind and that which is not mind2 for there is ground for the apprehension that mind and matter do not include all that exists2 and that1 along with matter1 ether ought to be considered as something intimately related to matter indeed1 but yet not just matter4 ,when the elements of the ethereal medium are regarded as truly and simply material1 however small and light they may be1 the elasticity and pressure which must be assigned to that medium in order to admit of the velocity of light1 are altogether out of the harmony of things1 and wholly incredible1 especially when confronted with the phenomena and the theory of astronomy4 ,thus1 to justify the velocity of light on the same principles as those of sound1 in various material media1 the ethereal pressure must be #abb1djj1jjj1jjj times greater than that of the atmosphere--which is incredible1 says ,macvicar4 ,but what as to mind8 ,to find what shall be called mind1 let us suppose an individualized object which is not an isolated object1 or a universe to itself1 but a member in a system2 then1 in obedience to what has been stated1 that object must be at once self-manifesting and impressed by the other objects around it1 and1 in being so impressed1 assimilated to them more or less4444 ,admitting the self-manifesting power to be sensitive1 percipient1 or conscious1 then quantity or intensity of substance or power in a monad is the condition requisite for feeling and thought4 ,and thus1 by an immediate co-ordination of our fundamental ideas of self-manifesting power and assimilative action1 more or less1 we reach a distinct conception of mind viewed in relation with that which is not mind4 ,by this deduction1 the primeval created substance1 the true protoplasm is still supposed to be homogeneous1 animated by its assimilation to the everlasting1 the ,infinite4 ,this protoplasm is partitioned in varying degrees so that there are in creation some individualized or separate objects or forces consisting of so small an amount or such weakness of substance that they are wholly fixed and merely perceptible1 while there are others consisting of so much more that they are free in their inner life1 and have power to perceive themselves also--not1 indeed1 in the centres of their being1 and as unimpressed and without ideas1 but as members in a system1 impressed or assimilated by other objects1 and so having ideas1 with power to look in this direction or that1 and to act accordingly4 ,such1 then1 according to ,macvicar1 is the nature of mind or spirit4 ,it is a being so constituted as to be at once in possession of ideas1 and so far fixed2 and also in possession of undetermined life or activity1 and so far free4 ,these are1 as it were1 the opposite poles of its being1 and the conditions of its activity4 ,if either is wanting1 the other vanishes4 ,without something fixed in the mind1 some object of thought or feeling1 there can be no thinking or feeling4 ,without something unfixed there can be nothing to think or to feel with1 much less can there be any thinking or feeling of self--that is1 self-consciousness4 ,but1 grant this condition in the individual1 and add the law of assimilation1 operating first from ,god above1 thus giving reason and conscience1 on the higher aspect of our being2 and1 secondly1 from nature around1 thus giving observation and instincts harmonious with our situation in the system of the universe1 and then human nature emerges4 ,but human nature plainly belongs to the last day of the work of creation rather than the first1 where we are now4 ,in man1 to all appearance1 the organism is the mother and nurse of the spirit4 ,and though the assimilative action of the mind upon the body becomes normally1 at least1 stronger and stronger as life advances1 so long as the organ retains all its perfection1 yet at first the assimilative action of the body upon the mind is almost everything4 ,the infant1 the child1 is little else but the victim of sensation--that is1 of assimilations in its mind1 effected by the force of external nature1 including the organism itself4 ,but as the mind1 through the sustained action towards the focus of the myo-neuro-cerebral system1 which is in the brain1 gains quantity or intensity--in one word1 energy--it becomes more independent and free1 and more able to react out of itself upon the organism in any direction of which it makes choice4444 ,hitherto1 ,macvicar has proceeded analytically1 or from the one to the many2 now1 synthetically1 from multiplicity to unity3--he continues3--,as to the matter in hand1 we may say1 shortly1 that a world of substances becoming multiple and diffuse1 and at last merging into ethereal elements1 being now given as the product of the law of assimilation in reference to the immensity of the ,creator1 the same law1 when viewed in reference to the unity of the ,creator1 leads us to infer a process of quite a contrary character4 ,it leads us to expect to find the ethereal elements tending to construct unities of greater energy than themselves4 ,then1 if all cosmical action is cyclical1 matter1 when existing free in the ether1 must ultimately tend to dissolve into pure ether again2 for1 if the law of creation is as a cycle1 in which1 after development and as its fruit1 the last term gives the first1 then has he grounds for his conjecture that complication in structure is necessary to the segregation of nervous matter1 and the construction of a myo-neuro-cerebral system2 and that ether and matter1 after developing a molecular economy1 as the mother and nurse of a soul or monad of a higher order than the merely material element1 through or by this organism1 complete the cycle of the economy of the material nature1 and eventually touch upon the spiritual world again and contribute to it4 ,whether this inference is correct or not1 it presents a noble hypothesis for consideration1 and one which should command attention at a time when the writings of ,john ,worrell ,keely1 the discoverer of polar energy1 and the inventor of vibratory machinery for the utilization of this force in mechanics1 are about to be given to the world1 supporting as they do1 some of the unwelcome views advanced by ,macvicar a quarter of a century ago4 ,although ,macvicar and ,keely differ in their theories of molecular morphology1 they agree entirely in calling the cosmical law of sympathetic association or assimilation the watchword and the law of creation4 ,this true protoplasm1 the ether1 which ,macvicar postulated1 ,keely claims to have proved a reality3 making use of the ether1 which he liberates by vibratory machinery1 as the medium of a motive power1 which he calls sympathetic negative attraction4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,the ,,nature ,,of ,,keely',s ,,problems4 #ahhe ,,to #ahhg4 ,too few the helpers on the road1 ,too heavy burdens in the load4 ,when a movement is willed a current is sent forth from the brain4 ,sir ,james ,crichton ,browne4 ,in ,november #ahhd1 ,mr4 ,keely obtained a standard for progressive research in the success of an experiment1 which he had tried many times before1 without arriving at the result that his theories had led him to expect4 ,one of those present1 at the time that this test was made1 afterwards wrote to ,mr4 ,keely1 to obtain an explanation of the dynamic force which had been witnessed1 causing a small globe to rotate when two persons had taken hold of the rod together1 with a firm grasp2 one of whom was standing on a circular sheet of metal1 from which piano wires stretched toward the globe1 near enough to touch one of the plates of glass which insulated the ball4 ,mr4 ,keely replied1 ,i cannot describe it other than the receptive concussion of the two forces1 positive and negative1 coming together1 seeking their coincidents and thus producing rotation by harmonious waves1 not streams4 ,you ask if sound waves had anything to do with the motion of the globe8 ,nothing2 the introductory settings are entirely different4 ,the ball ceased to rotate when ,i took your left hand in my right hand1 while with our other hands holding the iron rod resting on the metal plate1 because the receptive flows became independent of the circular chord of resonation as set up mechanically4 ,the power of rotation comes on the positive2 and the power of negation breaks it up4444 ,encouraged by this confirmation of his theories1 ,keely pursued his researches with renewed vigour4 ,at this time he wrote1 ,i am straining every nerve to accomplish certain matters in a given time1 working from twelve to fourteen hours daily4 ,although in my illness ,i have had some peaceful hours in thinking over the fascinating points associated with the researches to which ,i am devoting my life1 ,i have also had some very stormy ones in reviewing the many unjust insinuations and denouncements that have been heaped upon me by the ignorant and the base-hearted4 ,my one desire has been the acquisition of knowledge2 and1 no matter how great the impediment thrown in my path1 ,i will work without ceasing to attain my end4 ,after struggling for over seventeen years1 allowing scientists to examine my machinery in the most thorough manner1 and to make the most sensitive tests1 denunciations have multiplied against me4 ,one charge is that ,i use sodium in my mercury1 in the vacuum test4 ,i have thought that ,i would never again make any effort to prove that ,i am honest2 but ,i am working in a new lead1 and for the satisfaction of the few friends that ,i have ,i propose to show my introductory evolutions1 in proof of the negatization of an etheric substance to produce vacuum4 ,the mercury may be delivered to me by an expert3 ,i will operate from an open mercury bath3 using the most perfect mercury gauge obtainable1 attached to the same sphere that the column is operated from4 ,professor ,rogers1 the highest authority we have1 saw the operation of inducing these etheric vacuums and pronounced the result wonderful4 ,he said that the scientific world would go down on its knees1 if ,i produced only one pound of vacuum under the conditions named4 ,i showed from one to fourteen lbs4 during the evolutions4444 ,as soon as ,i have been able to combine all the positive and negative forces of etheric vibration in the triple vibratory sphere-engine that ,i am now at work upon1 in short1 as soon as ,i have completed a perfect1 patentable machine1 then my labours will cease on the ,motor line2 and after my patents are taken out1 ,i will devote the remainder of my life to ,aerial ,navigation1 for ,i have the only true system to make it an entire success in the vibratory lift and the vibratory push-process4 ,it will be seen that1 at this stage1 ,keely had no idea of giving up the engine2 and was still as confident of ultimate success as in the beginning4 ,there is no doubt that1 had not the time arrived when the directing power of ,providence led him away in quite another direction from the line that he was then working upon1 his system for ,aerial ,navigation would have been lost to this century4 ,the heart of man deviseth his way1 but the ,lord directs his steps4 ,about this time ,keely met with an accident4 ,under date ,march #bbnd1 he wrote1 ,it has been impossible for me to write1 my right hand and arm were so severely strained1 but ,i have not been idle4 ,i have had time for reflection1 and ,i have been setting up a key to explain vibratory rotation4 ,i have also a plan for a device to be attached to the ,liberator as an indicator to show when the neutral centre is free from its intensification while operating4 ,in this way the dangerous influences will be avoided which present themselves on the extension of the vibratory waves that operate the gun4 ,all the introductory details of the present engine are as perfect as is possible for the first lead4 ,it is in the form of a sphere1 about thirty inches in diameter and weighs #hjj lbs4 ,yesterday saw the pure1 positive action of my new ,liberator4 ,mr4 ,collier and his brother ,george were present1 and witnessed thirty expulsions1 made by myself2 after which ,i had them produce the vapour1 by imitating my manipulations2 which they were unable to do with the old generator4 ,they were very much delighted4 ,to say that the last three weeks have been trying ones1 is using very mild language to express what ,i have suffered from accidents1 disappointments1 etc41 etc4 ,i have been frozen in at my workshop2 and all things seemed to go wrong2 but my present successes are as an anchor1 which ,i thank ,god for1 who1 in ,his bountiful goodness1 has carried me into a port of safety over tempestuous seas4 ,again1 under various dates1 ,keely wrote3--,unbounded success has crowned my new departure4 ,i am now preparing new features that are necessary as adjuncts to denote the true condition1 as regards safety in my different vibratory operations4 ,without the aid sent me from on high there would have been nothing left of the discovery mechanically2 nor would there now be a single foot-hold on which hope could rest for a completion of the ,keely ,motor enterprise4444 ,i had an accident to one of my registers this morning4 ,it burst with a tremendous report1 shaking things up in a lively way1 but no other damage was done beyond that to the register4 ,the draughts are nearly completed for the compound vibratory engine1 and next week the work will be commenced and pushed forward with all possible speed4 ,this is the machine for continuous operation4 ,the ,liberator is as perfect as is possible2 and1 if the outside adjuncts are in proper sympathy1 my struggles will soon be at an end4444 ,all things are verging into a condition of perfection through the aid that ,i have received1 but for which the science of vibratory etheric force would1 as far as my researches are concerned1 have been lost to the world4 ,i feel that the world is waiting for this force2 that this advance in science is necessary to keep the proper equilibrium in our age of progress4444 ,there are moments in which ,i feel that ,i can measure the very stars1 which shine like ,edens in planetary space2 fit abodes for beings who have made it the study of their lives on earth to create peace and happiness for all around them4 ,is nature a mystery8 ,no1 ,god is in nature4 ,i do not believe in the line1 ',god moves in a mysterious way ,his wonders to perform4' ,in my estimation1 ,he moves in a very plain and simple way1 if we will open our hearts to the understanding of ,his way4 ,to the man who cannot appreciate the workings of nature1 chemically and otherwise1 ,god's ways may appear mysterious2 but when he comes to know nature's works he will find simplicity itself in its highest order of expression4 ,could ,i have one wish1 as to science1 gratified1 ,i would ask to live long enough to be able to appreciate even but one etheric variation in planetary evolution4 ,it might take fifty thousand years to attain this knowledge1 but what is that period of time when compared with the cycles that have passed away since this earth existed8 ,yes1 in one sense1 ',god does move in a mysterious way ,his wonders to perform4'444 ,the whirlpool of science has indeed engulphed me in its fascinating vortex4444 ,may #bjth4--,yesterday was a day of trials and disappointments4 ,it seemed as if nothing would work right4 ,after labouring six hours to set my safety process1 the first operation of the ,liberator tore the caps all to pieces4 ,i replaced them by a set of duplicates1 and set the ,liberator down to the low octaves1 when everything worked to a charm4 ,night was approaching1 and ,i left the workshop to get something to eat1 returning about eight o'clock to re-conduct experiments1 in order to discover if possible the cause of the sudden and most unexpected intensification4 ,i followed up with great care the progressive lines until ,i reached the tenth octave1 and then liberated a score of times1 yet no variation on liberator4 ,next1 ,i made an attachment to my safety arrangement1 and also to my strongest resonator1 to experiment on vibratory rotation with my shell2 when1 within two minutes1 it attained a frightful velocity3 then ,i suddenly retracted to the negative1 bringing the velocity down from about #aejj per minute to #aej4 ,the operation was magnificent1 lasting sixty-four minutes1 when a second intensification took place1 demolishing two safety-shells and one vibratory indicator4 ,i was perfectly dumbfounded1 and unable to account for such a phenomenon4 ,it was then near midnight1 but ,i had made up my mind not to discontinue until ,i had solved the mystery4 ,after an hour's reflection1 ,i set up a new position on the resonating wave plates in the forty resonating circuit on the base of liberator2 and got a result which for purity of uniformity surpassed all experiments that ,i have ever made4 ,i believe ,i have now struck the root of this difficulty1 and that ,i shall be able to master it2 and obtain continuity of action with perfect rotation4 ,june #ast1 #ahhe4--;,i am in a perfect sea of mental and physical strain1 intensified in anticipation of the near approach of final and complete success1 and bombarded from all points of the compass by demands and inquiries2 yet1 in my researches1 months pass as minutes4 ,the immense mental and physical strain of the past few weeks1 the struggles and disappointments have almost broken me up4 ,until the reaction took place1 which followed my success1 ,i could never have conceived the possibility of my becoming so reduced in strength as ,i am now4 ,my labours in the future will be of a much milder character2 but1 before ,i again commence them1 ,i must have a few days more of recuperation4 ,i was so absorbed in my researches that ,i forgot my duty to myself1 as regards the requirements of health1 and ,i am now paying the penalty4 ,it has been misery to me to have absorbed so much more time and capital than ,i anticipated2 and without the heaven-sent aid which ,i have received the world would have lost sight of me for ever4444 ,in view of the unjust comments in certain journals1 ,i intend to withdraw entirely from all contact with newspaper men1 to give no more exhibitions after the one which closes the series1 and to devote all my time and energies to bringing my models into a patentable condition4 ,it is said that the ,new ,york reporters intended to denounce me before witnessing my last experiments4 ,certainly utter ignorance of my philosophy was displayed in their articles1 but they were like the viper biting on the file1 and only hurt themselves3 for men who possess but a moderate degree of scientific knowledge have denounced them1 in turn1 as the most ignorant men they had ever come in contact with4 ,they stated that ,i started with a power estimated at over one million pounds pressure to the square inch on the head of my liberator1 a sheer absurdity4 ,the rock ,i am standing on can no more be moved by a whirlwind of such attacks than the atmospheric disturbance of equilibrium emanating from a butterfly's wing in motion could blow down the rock of ,gibraltar4 ,i enclose a newspaper cutting3 it was written by an engineer who has interested himself sufficiently in my work to be able to thoroughly understand my position4444 ,july #aeth4--,my researches teach me that electricity is but a certain condensed form of atomic vibration1 a form showing only the introductory features which precede the etheric vibratory condition4 ,it is a modulated force so conditioned1 in its more modest flows1 as to be susceptible of benefit to all organisms4 ,though destructive to a great degree in its explosive positions1 it is the medium by which the whole system of organic nature is permeated beneficially2 transfusing certain forms of inert matter with life-giving principles4 ,it is to a certain degree an effluence of divinity2 but only as the branch is to the tree4 ,we have to go far beyond this condition to reach the pure etheric one1 or the body of the tree4 ,the ,vibratory ,etheric tree has many branches1 and electricity is but one of them4 ,though it is a medium by which the operations of vital forces are performed1 it cannot in my opinion be considered the soul of matter4444 ,my safety arrangements 7governors and indicators7 for liberating are not working well2 but ,i am labouring to attain perfection on these devices1 and ,i hope soon to have them all right4444 ,i have extraordinary powers1 it is true1 and ,i must use them to the best advantage2 for ,i know they are the gift of the ,almighty1 who will1 ,i feel sure1 carry me to the end of the work which ,he has given me to accomplish4444 ,i am positive that this year will terminate my struggles4 ,my work is all progressing satisfactorily1 and ,i am pushing everything forward as rapidly as possible4444 ,august #eth4--,mr4 ,keely wrote to one of his friends1--,i have met with an accident to the ,liberator4 ,i was experimenting on the third order of intensification1 when the rotation on the circuit was thrown down in the compound resonating chamber1 which1 by the instantaneous multiplication of the volume induced thereby1 caused an explosion bursting the metal casing which enclosed the forty resonators1 completely dismantling the ,liberator4 ,the shock took my senses from me for a few moments1 but ,i was not even scratched this time4 ,a part of the wall was torn away1 and resonators and vibrators were thrown all over the room4 ,the neighbourhood was quite lively for a time1 but ,i quieted all fears by telling the frightened ones that ,i was only experimenting4 ,i allowed everything to remain until ,dr4 ,woods and ,mr4 ,collier had seen the effect of the explosion4 ,the orders of intensification for accelerating dissociation would not be understood by any explanations that could be made1 if unaccompanied by the demonstrations witnessed by the late ,professor ,leidy1 ,dr4 ,brinton1 and others4 ,when the ether flows from a tube1 its negative centre represents molecular sub-division1 carrying interstitially 7or between its molecules7 the lowest order of liberated ozone4 ,this is the first order of ozone and is wonderfully refreshing and vitalizing to those who breathe it4 ,the second order1 or atomic separation1 releases a much higher grade of ozone2 in fact1 too pure for inhalation1 as it produces insensibility4 ,the third order1 or etheric1 is the one that has been 7though attended with much danger to the operator7 utilized by ,keely in his carbon register to produce the circuit of high vibration that breaks up the molecular magnetism which is recognized as cohesion4 ,the acceleration of these orders is governed by the introductory impulse on a certain combination of vibratory chords1 arranged for this purpose in the instrument1 with which ,keely dissociates the elements of water2 and which he calls a liberator4 ,in molecular dissociation one fork of #fbj is used1 setting the chords on the first octave4 ,in atomic separation1 two forks3 one of #fbj and one of #fcj per second2 setting the chords on the second octave4 ,in the etheric three forks3 one of #fbj1 one of #fcj1 and one of #ab1jjj1 setting the chords on the third octave4 ,keely's ,three ,systems4 ,my first system is the one which requires introductory mediums of differential gravities1 air and water1 to induce disturbance of equilibrium on the liberation of vapour1 which only reached the inter-atomic position and was held there by the submersion of the molecular and atomic leads in the 'generator' ,i then used4 ,it was impossible with these mediums to go beyond the atomic with this instrument2 and ,i could not dispense with the water until my liberator was invented1 nor reach the maximum of the full line of vibration4 ,my first system embraces liberator engine and gun4 ,my second system of dissociation ,i consider complete1 as far as the liberation of the ether is concerned1 but not sufficiently complete1 as yet1 in its devices for indicating and governing the vibratory etheric circuit1 to make it a safe medium4 ,my third system embraces aerial and sub-marine navigation4 ,the experimental sphere intended to test the combination of the positive and negative rotation is nearly completed4 444 ,i have done everything that ,i could do to demonstrate the integrity of my inventions1 and ,i will never again allow my devices to be submitted to examinations2 not that ,i am afraid they will be stolen1 but ,i do not wish to have the construction of my improved mechanical devices known until my patents are taken out4 ,nor will ,i ever again make a statement1 specifying the time when certain work will be finished4 ,if ,i thought to-morrow would end all my struggles on this system1 ,i would not say so4 ,i have been a great sufferer from my inability to keep my promises1 fully believing in my power to keep them1 and now ,i must and will prove that all is right before ,i promise4 444 ,the work on the vibratory engine is progressing rapidly4 ,i spend an hour or two every day at the shop where my work is being done1 examining every part of it critically as it is being put together4 ,the safety arrangements which ,i am having attached to my liberator will greatly improve it4 ,its operation will now be conducted with a gum bulb instead of a violin bow1 the pressure of which gives the introductory chord of impulse that vitalizes the whole machine4 ,the chords will all be set in progressive sympathy from the first octave to the fortieth4444 ,i have been writing out some of my theories as to sound and odour4 ,these two subjects have intensified me considerably of late1 on account of the peculiar position they occupy in their lines of sub-division2 as also the peculiar laws that govern them in their dissemination4 ,i see the time approaching when ,i will be able to write up my system of the true philosophy of nature's grandest force1 and have at my control the proper apparatus to analyze and demonstrate all the progressive links of transmittive sympathy from the crude molecular to the high etheric4444 ,december #agth1 #ahhe4--,the setting up of the circles for computing the different lines of etheric chords1 in setting the vibratory conditions for continuity1 requires close study4 ,i feel convinced that a perfect solution of my difficulties will follow when this part of the work has been completed2 and that1 before many weeks have passed1 a revelation will be unfolded that will startle the world2 a revelation1 so simple in its character1 that the physicists will stand aghast1 and perhaps feel humiliated by the nature of their efforts in the past to solve certain problems4444 ,i find my chief trouble in chording up the masses of the different parts composing the negative centres4 ,the negative centre is included in the one-third volume of shell or sphere1 starting from the neutral axis or point of suspension4 ,this point of suspension only becomes perfect when the rotation is established on the sphere4 ,one hundred revolutions per minute is all the velocity required to neutralize the gravity of the central third with the velocity of the vibratory circuit at one hundred thousand per second4 ,taking all matters into consideration associated with the mechanical part of the enterprise1 the month of ,january ought to find all completed1 ready for sympathetic graduation4 ,but ,i fear to be too sanguine when ,i remember the loss of time and the interferences from exhibitions to which ,i have been subjected in the past4 ,i feel more and more the great importance of devoting all my energies to the great task that ,divine ,power has ordained me to perform4444 ,at the close of the year #ahhe1 everything seemed to promise full and complete success during the coming year4 ,mr4 ,charles ,collier1 the patent lawyer1 shared ,keely's confidence in the near completion of his struggles4 ,the stock-holders were enthusiastic1 and the stockbrokers were on the qui vive1 anticipating a great rise in the shares of ,the ,keely ,motor ,company4 ,mr4 ,collier had written in ,august to ,major ,ricarde-,seaver #a3 ,the ,bank of ,england is not more solid than is our enterprise4 ,my belief is that the present year will see us through1 patents and all4 ,the journals had ceased to ridicule1 and some of them were giving serious attention to the possibilities lying hidden in the discovery of an unknown force4 ,in #ahhf1 ,mr4 ,william ,walsh1 editor of ,lippincott's ,magazine1 accepted a paper on the subject1 publishing it in the ,september number4 ,it was entitled ,keely's ,etheric ,force4 ,this was the first article accepted by any ,philadelphia editor1 setting forth ,keely's claims on the public for the patience and protection which the discoverer of a force in nature needs1 while researching the unknown laws that govern its operation4 ,up to this time ,keely had been held responsible for the errors made in the premature organization of a ,keely ,motor ,company1 and the selling of stock before there was anything to give in return for the money paid in by investors4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,sympathetic ,,vibratory ,,force1 #ahhg4 ,the teleological view was opposed to the mechanical1 which regarded the universe as a collocation of mere facts without any further significance4 ,the mechanical view looked backward to the antecedents of a phenomenon1 and explained things by reducing them to their lowest terms2 the teleological or philosophical view looked forward to the end or purpose which was being realized1 which was the reason of the whole development1 and in the deepest sense its cause4 ,mechanical explanation was an infinite progress1 which could ultimately explain nothing2 in the last resort1 caus efficientes pendent a finalibus4 ,in defining the nature of the end which it thus asserted1 philosophy had to wage unsparing battle against the naturalistic tendencies of our time4--7,from a ,review of ,professor ,seth's address delivered in ,glasgow in #ahia47 ,in #ahhg1 a series of articles appeared in ,the ,british ,mercantile ,gazette1 then edited by ,mr4 ,arthur ,goddard4 ,the ,june number devoted more than eight columns to the progress and present position of the discoverer of ,etheric ,force4 ,to the ,editor of the ,british ,mercantile ,gazette4 ,sir1--,dr4 ,ziermann1 a ,german writer1 has said that a great deal of sound sense and moral courage are required to introduce ideas which will only be recognised as truth after the lapse of time4 ,he adds1 ,nay1 even to recognize their truth will require more understanding than falls to the share of most men4 ,the day will come1 ,i think1 when your action in giving the pages of your journal to quotations from ,mr4 ,keely's papers on ,etheric ,physics and ,etheric ,philosophy1 will make known your claim to this 'understanding4' ,in the meantime1 you have1 by your appreciation of his labours and your sympathy in his trials1 extended that assistance to the discoverer of this newly-known force in ,nature which is more powerful than any other agent in inspiring to renewed efforts2 after ridicule and calumny1 long continued1 have done their worst towards depressing the vital centres of nerve-force4 ,when ,mr4 ,keely has made known the law of sympathetic association to the world1 the full meaning of the words sympathy1 help1 consolation1 will be better understood than they are now4 ,the most important discoveries1 the most difficult problems of research1 the most arduous scientific labours have been achieved by men who have battled with persecution and contempt at every step of their progress2 enduring all1 as he has done1 with patience2 in the full assurance that the glorious truths entrusted to him to reveal will1 in the end1 be proclaimed for the advancement of the race4 ,the nobler the soul1 writes ,ouida1 the more sensitive it is to the blows of injustice4 ,cicero tells us that praise stimulates great souls into greater exertions2 and ,plutarch said that souls are sensitive to sympathy1 to praise1 and to blame1 in exact proportions to the fineness of their fibre4 ,mr4 ,keely proves this truth by actual tests1 as will be seen in time1 to the satisfaction of all investigators4 ,every branch of science1 every doctrine of extensive application1 has had its alphabet1 its rudiments1 its grammar2 indeed1 at each fresh step in the path of discovery1 the researcher has to work out by experiments the unknown laws which govern his discovery4 ,ignorant himself1 he builds up his knowledge upon a foundation which1 uncertain as it must be at first1 becomes as secure as that of ,gibraltar rocks when1 one by one1 he has removed the misshapen stones of error1 and replaced them with the hewn granite blocks of truth4 ,to attempt to introduce scientists1 without any previous preparation1 to any new system1 no matter how solid its foundation1 would be like giving a book published in ,greek to a man to read who had never before seen its characters4 ,we do not expect a complicated problem in the higher mathematical analysis to be solved by one who is ignorant of the elementary rules of arithmetic4 ,just as futile would it be to expect scientists to comprehend the laws of etheric physics and etheric philosophy at one glance4 ',there are some secrets which1 who knows not now1 ,must1 ere he reach them1 climb the heapy ,alps ,of science1 and devote long years to toil4' ,norman ,lockyer1 in his ',chemistry of the ,sun1' writes of molecules that 'one feels as if dealing with something that is more like a mental than a physical attribute--a sort of expression of free will on the part of the molecules4' ,herein lies one of the secrets of ,mr4 ,keely's so-called 'compound secret4' ,again1 ,mr4 ,lockyer writes3 ',the law which connects radiation with absorption1 and at once enables us to read the riddle set by the sun and stars1 is1 then1 simply the law of sympathetic vibration4' ,this is the very corner-stone of ,mr4 ,keely's philosophy--yes1 even of his discovery4 ,it has been said that all great men who have lived1 or who now live1 have been indebted for their knowledge to teachers or to books2 but all progress depends upon the use made of such knowledge when acquired4 ,in order to bear fruit1 knowledge must be increased by reflection1 and by placing the mind in that attitude which brings into play the powers of intuition2 or1 rather1 placing it in the receptive state which admits of the in-flowing of what is called inspiration4 ,molecular vibration is ,keely's legitimate field of research4 ,in this field his discovery was made1 many years since2 but it is only now1 within this year1 that he has reached any approach to a solution of the stupendous problems which have arisen barring and baffling all progress1 at times1 towards the complete subjugation and control of the force that he had discovered4 ,again and again has he invited the attention of scientists to his discovery1 from the commencement of his researches2 but the few scientists who condescended to accept his invitations were so ignorant of the mysteries which they sought to investigate--of 'the alphabet and rudiments' of etheric physics--that they found it easier to accuse him of jugglery and of fraud than to account for the phenomena that they witnessed4 ,they addressed their report to a public even more ignorant than themselves1 if such a thing could be possible1 with the result of preventing other scientists1 who would have better understood the experiments1 from examining into ,keely's claims1 as the discoverer of an unknown force4 ,a system of doctrine can be legitimately refuted only upon its own principles1 viz41 by disproving its facts1 and invalidating the principles deduced from them4 ,it is1 then1 the facts1 and not the opinions of the ignorant or the prejudiced1 which are of chief importance here1 as in all other questions of moment4 ,all those men who have witnessed the production of etheric force and its application experimentally1 during the exhibitions given at various times1 have1 if capable of understanding such a marvellous discovery as ,keely has made1 agreed to a man in bearing testimony1 at the time1 that no known force could have produced such results under the same conditions4 ,it is now three years since ,keely invited certain ,english men of science 7experimenting in the same field where his explorations commenced7 to examine his ,liberator2 which was dismantled for the purpose1 and all its parts assembled for examination before being put together for the production of etheric force1 when these men refused to visit his workshop1 and it has been said that a ,professor of the ,university of ,pennsylvania prevented the investigation by his assertion that compressed air is the force used by ,keely with which to dupe his audiences4 ,a schoolboy's knowledge of the change of temperature always accompanying the compression of air would prevent such an assertion from being made by anyone who had witnessed the operation of the ,liberator in the production and storage of etheric force1 during which there is not the slightest change of temperature4 ,had these ,english scientists1 with their knowledge of acoustics1 been present on the occasion referred to1 no such groundless assertion would have possessed any influence with either2 and the world of science would have sooner known and acknowledged the nature and the worth of this great discovery4 ,roget says that if we are to reason at all1 we can reason only upon the principle that for every effect there must exist a corresponding cause2 or1 in other words1 that there is an established and invariable order of sequence among the changes which take place in the universe4 ,the bar to all further reasoning lies in the fact that there are men who1 admitting all the phenomena we behold are the effects of certain causes1 still say that these causes are utterly unknown to us1 and that their discovery is wholly beyond the reach of our faculties4 ,those who urge this do not seem to be aware that its general application in every sense would shake the foundation of every kind of knowledge--even that which we regard as built upon the most solid basis4 ,of causation it is agreed that we know nothing2 all that we do know is that one event succeeds another with undeviating constancy2 and what do we know of magnetism1 electricity1 galvanism1 but such facts as have been elicited by the labours of experimental enquirers1 and the laws which have been deduced from their generalization8 ,would it be considered a sufficient reason for the absolute rejection of any of these facts--or a whole class of facts--that we are still ignorant of the principle upon which they depend1 and that such knowledge is beyond our reach8 ,facts are every day believed1 upon observation1 or upon testimony1 which we should be exceedingly puzzled to account for1 if called upon to do so4 ,every man who has passed the mere threshold of science ought to be aware that it is quite possible to be in possession of a series of facts1 long before he is capable of giving a rational and satisfactory explanation of them2 in short1 before he is enabled to discover their causes4 ,also that he must classify his facts and construct hypotheses before he can impart his experimental position to others4 ,many things which were1 for a long time1 treated as fabulous and incredible have been proved1 in our age1 to be authentic facts1 as soon as the evidence in support of them was duly subjected to the crucible of scientific investigation4 ,take1 for example1 ,professor ,dewar's researches in the cause1 or origin1 of meteoric stones4 ,fortunately for his branches of research and experiment1 he is possessed of that philosophical spirit and energy which enables him to divest himself of all prejudice1 and1 in constructing his theories1 to welcome the evidence of truth from whatever quarter it approaches4 ,more than two thousand years elapsed between the first record of the phenomenon1 by ,anaxagoras1 and ,mr4 ,howard's observations in #ahjb1 during which time the fact was disputed most strenuously by many1 while1 in our time1 ,professor ,dewar's explanations of the same1 upon intelligible and satisfactory principles1 have confirmed the statements made centuries ago4 ,how few the years1 in comparison1 since ,keely's grand discovery first broke upon his own mind1 which he has devoted to experiment1 to invention1 to the classification of facts1 and the building up of hypotheses1 before reaching the goal of his desires4 ,men will marvel at the shortness of the period when all that he has accomplished is made known4 ,the delays which have occurred in bringing before the world the actual discovery of this primal force1 from which all the forces of nature spring1 have been in part occasioned by the want of that sympathy and appreciation which ,keely would have received from his fellow-men1 had scientists believed him to be honest in his claims4 ,he would not then have been left in the merciless hands of a ring1 which gave or withheld financial aid according as he could be thumbscrewed1 into giving exhibitions for speculative ends on the part of the ring4 ,these costly days of delay are now a thing of the past4 ,keely's programme of work for the remainder of the year embraces such exhibitions of his progress as can be given without interfering with this programme4 ,coleridge says in ,table ,talk1--,i have seen what ,i am certain ,i would not have believed on your telling2 and in all reason1 therefore1 ,i can neither expect nor wish that you should believe on mine4 ,it is of all tasks the most difficult to procure any favourable reception for doctrines which are objectionable only because they are deemed to be incompatible with preconceived notions4 ,it does not answer to disturb the calmness of views now held by our most eminent physicists1 who seem to expect that nature will always accommodate her operations to their preconceived notions of possibility1 and adapt her phenomena to their arbitrary systems of philosophy4 ,we are all familiar with the anecdote of the wise ,indian potentate who imagined that his informant was imposing upon his credulity when giving him an accurate description of the steam-engine4 ,now what would be thought of that philosopher who1 in attempting to communicate an adequate idea of the operation of the steam-engine1 should content himself with a mere description of its mechanism--of its wheels and levers1 and cylinders and pistons--keeping entirely out of view the moving power--the steam2 and ridiculing all investigation into the nature1 application1 and phenomena of this power4 ,yet this is exactly what microscopic observers of the animal economy call absurd and useless inquiry4 ,the true springs of our organization are not these muscles1 these arteries1 these nerves1 which are described and experimented upon with so much care and exactness4 ,they are hidden springs1 the action of which are as miracles to those who have vainly tried to account for the motion of the muscles at the command of the will2 for the power of vision1 which places the human eye in intimate and immediate connection with the soul--dependent as they are upon unknown laws1 assigned them by the great1 omniscient and omnipotent ,being by whom they were originally created1 and ,who is the one source of all power4 ,although in our present ordinary state of existence we are permitted to see only as through a glass darkly1 ignorant of many of the powers and processes of nature1 as well as of the causes to which they are to be ascribed1 we are not1 therefore1 entitled to set limits to her operations1 and to say to her1 ,hitherto shalt thou go1 and no further6 ,we must not presume1 says ,glanvill1 to assign bounds to the exercise of the power of the ,almighty1 nor are these operations and that power to be controlled by the arbitrary theories and capricious fancies of man4 ,we are surrounded by the incredible--the seemingly miraculous4 ,who would not ask for demonstration when told that a gnat's wing1 in its ordinary flight1 beats many hundred times in a second8 ,but what is this1 when compared to the astonishing truths which modern optical inquiries reveal--such as teach us that the sensation of violet light affects our eyes #gjg millions of millions of times per second in order to effect that sensation8 ,how strangely must they estimate nature1 how highly must they value their own conceits1 who deny the possibility of any cause of any effect1 merely because it is incomprehensible4 ,in fact1 what do men comprehend8 ,what do they know of causes8 ,when ,newton said that gravitation held the world together1 he assigned no reason why the heavenly bodies do not fly off from each other into infinite space4 ,the discoverer of etheric force is able to give the reasons for1 and the explanations of1 the laws involved in all that he asserts2 or1 rather1 all that he propounds2 for1 with the true humility of wisdom1 he asserts nothing4 ,newton at first thought that he had discovered in electricity the ether which he asserted pervades all nature1 until1 by repeated experiments1 he became convinced of the insufficiency of that principle to explain the phenomena4 ,other philosophers have speculated upon magnetism in the same way1 and upon the similarity between magnetism and electricity4 ,mr4 ,keely's experiments show that the two are1 in part1 antagonistic1 and that both are but modifications of the one force in nature4 ,there have been some physiologists who have maintained that the nerves are merely the conductors of some fluid from the brain and spinal cord to the different parts of the body1 and that this circulating fluid is capable of an external expansion1 which takes place with such energy as to form an atmosphere1 or sphere of activity1 similar to that of electrical bodies4 ,dr4 ,roget observes that the velocity with which the nerves subservient to sensation transmit the impressions they receive at one extremity1 along their whole course1 exceeds all measurement1 and can be compared only to that of electricity passing along a conducting wire4 ,a comparison with gravity would have been nearer the truth1 though no computation ever has been made1 or ever can be made1 between the flight of gravity and of electricity1 so infinitely swifter is the former4 ,bclard almost completely demonstrated the truth of ,roget's hypothesis concerning the action of the nervous fluid by cutting a nerve of considerable size1 adjoining a muscle1 which induced paralysis in this part4 ,perceiving the contractile action reappear1 when he approached the two ends of the nerve to the distance of three lines1 he became convinced that an imponderable substance1 a fluid of some kind1 traversed the interval of separation1 in order to restore the muscular action4 ,by another experiment he demonstrated its striking analogy to galvanic electricity4 ,the late ,professor ,keil1 of ,jena1 also made some very interesting experiments of the same character1 one of which tends to demonstrate the susceptibility of the nervous system to the magnetic influence1 and the efficacy of the magnet in the cure of certain infirmities4 ,it was communicated by him to a meeting of the ,royal ,society of ,london more than fifty years since4 ,if we are justified1 then1 in assuming the existence of this nervous fluid1 writes ,colquhoun1 in #ahcf1 whether secreted by1 or merely conducted by the nerves1 and of its analogy to the other known1 active1 and imponderable fluids1 and of its capability of external expansion1 as in the case of electricity1 it does not appear to be a very violent or unwarrantable proceeding to extend the hypothesis a little further1 and to infer that it is also capable of being transmitted or directed outwards1 either involuntarily or by the volition of one individual1 with such energy as to produce certain real and perceptible effects upon the organism of another1 in a manner analogous to what is known to occur in the case of the torpedo the gymnotus-electricus1 etc4 ,should it be that ,mr4 ,keely's compound secret includes any explanation of this operation of will-force1 showing that it may be cultivated1 in common with the other powers which ,god has given us1 we shall then recover some of the knowledge lost out of the world1 or retained only in gipsy tribes and among ,indian adepts4 ,the effects of the law of sympathetic association1 which ,mr4 ,keely demonstrates as the governing medium of the universe1 find illustrations in inanimate nature4 ,what else is the influence which one string of a lute has upon a string of another lute when a stroke upon it causes a proportionable motion and sound in the sympathizing consort1 which is distant from it1 and not perceptibly touched8 ,it has been found that1 in a watchmaker's shop1 the timepieces1 or clocks1 connected with the same wall or shelf1 have such a sympathetic effect in keeping time1 that they stop those which beat in irregular time2 and1 if any are at rest1 set those going which beat accurately4 ,norman ,lockyer deals with the law of sympathetic association as follows3--,while in the giving out of light we are dealing with molecular vibration taking place so energetically as to give rise to luminous radiation1 absorption phenomena afford no evidence of this motion of the molecules when their vibrations are far less violent4444 ,the molecules are so apt to vibrate each in its own period that they will take up vibrations from light which is passing among them1 provided always that the light thus passing among them contains the proper vibrations4444 ,let us try to get a mental image of what goes on4 ,there is an experiment in the world of sound which will help us4444 ,take two large tuning-forks1 mounted on sounding-boxes1 and tuned to exact unison4 ,one of the forks is set in active vibration by means of a fiddle-bow1 and then brought near to the other one1 the open mouths presented to each other4 ,after a few moments1 if the fork originally sounded is damped to stop its sound1 it will be found that the other fork has taken up the vibration1 and is sounding distinctly4 ,if the two forks are not in unison1 no amount of bowing of the one will have the slightest effect in producing sound from the other4 ,although physicists know that this extraordinary influence exists between inanimate objects as a class1 they look upon the human organism as little more than a machine1 taking small interest in researches which evince the dominion of mind over matter4 ,keely's experimental research in this province has shown him that it is neither the electric nor the magnetic flow1 but the etheric1 which sends its current along our nerves2 that the electric or the magnetic bears an infinitely small ratio to that of an etheric flow1 both as to velocity and tenuity2 that true coincidents can exist between any mediums--cartilage to steel1 steel to wood1 wood to stone1 and stone to cartilage2 that the same influence 7sympathetic association7 which governs all the solids holds the same governing influence over all liquids2 and again1 from liquid to solid1 embracing the three kingdoms1 animal1 vegetable and mineral2 that the action of mind over matter thoroughly substantiates these incontrovertible laws of sympathetic etheric influence2 that the only true medium which exists in nature is the sympathetic flow emanating from the normal human brain1 governing correctly the graduating and setting-up of the true sympathetic vibratory positions in machinery necessary to success2 that these flows come in on the order of the fifth and seventh positions of atomic subdivision1 compound ether a resultant of this subdivision2 that1 if metallic mediums are brought under the influence of this sympathetic flow they become organisms which carry the same influence with them that the human brain does over living physical positions--that the composition of the metallic and of the physical are one and the same thing1 although the molecular arrangement of the physical may be entirely opposite to the metallic on their aggregations2 that the harmonious chords induced by sympathetic positive vibration permeate the molecules in each1 notwithstanding1 and bring about the perfect equation of any differentiation that may exist--in one1 the same as in the other--and thus they become one and the same medium #b for sympathetic transmission2 that the etheric flow is of a tenuity coincident to the condition governing the seventh subdivision of matter--a condition of subtlety that readily and instantaneously permeates all forms of aggregated matter1 from air to solid hammered steel--the velocity of the permeation being the same with the one as with the other2 that the tenuity of the etheric flow is so infinitely fine that any magnifying glass1 the power of which would enlarge the smallest grain of sand to the size of the sun1 brought to bear upon it1 would not make it visible to us2 that light1 traversing at the speed of #bjj1jjj miles per second a distance requiring a thousand centuries to reach1 would be traversed by the etheric flow in an indefinite fragment of a second4 ,these are some of the problems which ,mr4 ,keely has had to solve before he could adapt his vibratory machinery to the etheric flow4 ,the true conditions for transmitting it sympathetically through a differential wire of platinum and silver have now been attained1 after eight years of intense study and elaborate experiment4 ,the introductory indications began to show themselves about two years ago1 but the intermissions on transmission were so frequent and so great as to discourage ,mr4 ,keely from further research on this line4 ,then came one of those inspirations which men call accident1 revealing to him the true conditions necessary to produce a sympathetic flow1 free of differentiation1 proving conclusively the truth of his theory of the law governing the atomic triplets in their association4 ,differentiation1 by compound negative vibration of their neutral centres1 causes antagonism1 and thus the great attractive power that aggregates them becomes one of dispersion or expansion1 accompanied by immense velocity of rotation1 which carries its influence through the whole volume of air1 #bcj cubic inches contained in sphere1 within its #cc #a_/c chord of its circle of coincidence4 ,by this wire of platinum and silver the current of force is now passed to run the vibratory disk1 thus altogether upsetting the compressed air theory of ,professor ,barker1 ,dr4 ,hall1 and others of less note4 ,in setting the conditions of molecular sympathetic transmission by wire1 writes ,keely1 the same law calls for the harmonious adjustment of the thirds1 to produce a non-intermittent flow of sympathy4 ,intermission means failure here4 ,that differential molecular volume is required1 in two different mediums of molecular density1 to destroy differentiation of sympathetic flow1 seems at first sight to controvert the very law established by the great ,creator1 which constitutes harmony--a paradoxical position which has heretofore misled physicists who have propounded and set forth most erroneous doctrines1 because they have accepted the introductory conditions1 discarding their sympathetic surroundings4 ,the volume of the neutral centre of the earth is of no more magnitude than the one of a molecule3 the sympathetic condition of one can be reached in the same time as the other by its coincident chord4 ,thus it will be seen what difficulties ,keely has encountered in his persevering efforts to use the etheric flow in vibratory machinery4 ,one by one he has conquered each1 attaining the transmission of the etheric current in the same manner as the electric current1 with this one notable difference--that1 in order to show insulation to the sceptical1 he passes the etheric current through blocks of glass in running his vibratory devices4 ,when ,keely's system is finished1 then1 and not until then1 all that is involved in his discovery will be made known to the world4 ,,note4 ,five years after this paper on ,etheric force was written1 ,dr4 ,henry ,wood1 of ,boston1 wrote an article1 which appeared in ,the ,arena of ,october1 #ahia1 having the title ,healing through ,mind4 ,dr4 ,wood says3 ,truth may be considered as a rounded unit4 ,truths have various and unequal values1 but each has its peculiar place1 and if it be missing or distorted1 the loss is not only local but general4 ,unity is made up of variety1 and therein is completeness4 ,any honest search after truth is profitable1 for thereby is made manifest the kingdom of the real4444 ,we forget that immaterial forces rule not only the invisible but the visible universe4 ,matter1 whether in the vegetable1 animal1 or human organism1 is moulded1 shaped1 and its quality determined by unseen forces back of and higher than itself4 ,we rely upon the drug1 because we can feel1 taste1 see1 and smell it4 ,we are colour-blind to invisible potency of a higher order1 and practically conclude that it is non-existent4--,healing through ,mind4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,etheric ,,vibration4 ,,the ,,key ,,force4 ,discovery is not invention4--,edison4 ,science has been compared to a stately and wide-spreading tree1 stretching outward and upward its ever-growing boughs4 ,as yet mankind has reached only to its lowermost branches1 too often satisfied with the dead calyxes which have fallen from it to the ground1 after serving their uses for the protection of the vital germs of truth4 ,the seed of the next advance in science can only germinate as the dry husk decays1 within which its potentiality was secretly developed4 ,for upwards of ten centuries false portions of the philosophy of ,aristotle enslaved the minds of civilized ,europe1 only1 at last1 to perish and pass away like withered leaves4 ,the most perfect system of philosophy must always be that which can reconcile and bring together the greatest number of facts that can come within the sphere of the subject4 ,in this consists the sole glory of ,newton1 whose discovery rests upon no higher order of proof4 ,in the words of ,dr4 ,chalmers1 ,authority scowled upon this discovery1 taste was disgusted by it1 and fashion was ashamed of it4 ,all the beauteous speculation of former days was cruelly broken up by this new announcement of the better philosophy1 and scattered like the fragments of an aerial vision1 over which the past generations of the world had been slumbering in profound and pleasing reverie4 ,thus we see that time is no sure test of a doctrine1 nor ages of ignorance any standard by which to measure a system4 ,facts can have a value only when properly represented and demonstrated by proof4 ,velpeau said nothing can lie like a fact4 ,sir ,humphry ,davy asserted that no one thing had so much checked the progress of philosophy as the confidence of teachers in delivering dogmas as facts1 which it would be presumptuous to question4 ,this reveals the spirit which made the crude physics of ,aristotle the natural philosophy of ,europe4 ,the philosophy of vibratory rotation1 which is yet to be propounded to the world1 reveals the identity of facts which seem dissimilar1 binding together into a system the most unconnected and unlike results of experience1 apparently4 ,john ,worrell ,keely1 the discoverer of an unknown force and the propounder of a pure philosophy1 learned at an early stage of his researches not to accept dogmas as truths1 finding it safer to trust to that inner light which has guided him than to wander after the ignis fatuus of a false system4 ,he has been like a traveller exploring an unknown zone in the shade of night1 losing his way at times1 but ever keeping before him the gleam of breaking day which dawned upon him at the start4 ,scientists have kept aloof from him1 or1 after superficial examinations1 have branded him as a modern ,cagliostro1 a wizard1 a magician1 and a fraud4 ,calumnies he never stoops to answer1 for he knows that when his last problem is solved to his own satisfaction his discovery and his inventions will defend him in trumpet tones around our globe4 ,buchanan says1 ,who would expect a society of learned men1 the special cultivators and guardians of science1 as they claim to be1 to know as much of the wonderful philosophy now developing as those who have no artificial reputation to risk in expressing an opinion1 no false and inflated conceptions of dignity and stability to hold them back1 and who stand ready to march on from truth to truth as fast and far as experimental demonstration can lead them8 ,johnson tells us that the first care of the builder of a new system is to demolish the fabrics that are standing4 ,but the cobwebs of age cannot be disturbed without rousing the bats1 to whom daylight is death4 ,when has ,nature ever whispered her secrets but for the advancement of our race on that royal road which leads to the subjugation of the power she reveals8 ,but not until the inspiration of thought has done its work in applying the power to mechanics1 can the tyrant thus encountered be transformed into the slave4 ,so was it with steam1 so has it been with electricity1 and so will it be with vibratory force4 ,all experience shows that the steady progress of the patient study of what are termed ,nature's laws does not attract public attention until there are some practical results4 ,professor ,tyndall has said that the men who go close to the mouth of ,nature and listen to her communications leave the discoveries they make for the benefit of posterity to be developed by practical men4 ,the invention of vibratory machinery for the liberation and the operation in mechanics of sympathetic force is an instance where practical application of the discovery may be made by the discoverer4 ,after years of experiments with this force1 what does the public know of its nature8 ,nothing2 for as yet no practical results have been obtained4 ,here is a power sustaining the same relations to electricity that the trunk of a tree does to its branches1--the discovery of which heralds to the scientific world possibilities affecting motive industries1 such as should command the attention of all men2 and yet it is known only as a theme for jest and ridicule and reproach6 ,and why is this8 ,partly from the mismanagement of a prematurely-organized ,keely ,motor ,company1 and partly because men competent to judge for themselves have preferred to take the opinion of others not competent1 instead of investigating each for himself4 ,attempts to interest scientists in the marvellous mechanism by which etheric force is evolved from the atmosphere have failed1 even as ,galileo failed at ,padua to persuade the principal professor of philosophy there to look at the moon and planets through his glasses4 ,the professor pertinaciously refused1 as wrote ,galileo to his friend ,kepler4 ,mankind hate truth1 said ,lady ,mary ,montague3 she should have said1 mankind hate new truths4 ,the most simple and rational advances in medical science have been received with scorn and derision1 or with stupid censure4 ,harvey was nicknamed the circulator #c after his discovery of the circulation of the blood1--which discovery was ridiculed by his colleagues and compeers4 ,the same reception awaited ,jenner's introduction of vaccination4 ,the revelation of new truths is compared to the upheaval of rocks which reveal deeply-hidden strata4 ,stolid conservatism dislikes and avoids such facts1 because they involve new thinking and disturb old theories4 ,the leaden weight of scepticism drags down the minds of many1 paralyzing their power of reasoning upon facts which reveal truth1 from another standpoint than their own1 with new simplicity and grandeur in the divine laws of the universe4 ,others there are1 embracing the majority of mankind1 according to ,hazlitt1 who stick to an opinion that they have long supported1 and that supports them4 ,but whenever a discovery or invention has made its way so well by itself as to achieve reputation1 most people assert that they always believed in it from the first2 and so will it be with ,keely's inventions1 in time4 ,in our day so rapidly are anticipations realized and sanguine hopes converted into existing facts1 one wonderful discovery followed by another1 that it is strange to find men possessing any breadth of intellect rejecting truths from hearsay1 instead of examining all things and holding fast to the truth4 ,the laws of sympathetic association need only to be demonstrated and understood to carry conviction of their truth with them4 ,they control our world and everything in it1 from matter to spirit4 ,they control all the systems of worlds in the universe2 for they are the laws which ,kepler predicted would in this century he revealed to man4 ,the divine element is shown by these laws to be like the sun behind the clouds1--the source of all light1 though itself unseen4 ,already the existence of this unknown force is as well established as was the expansive power of steam in the days when the world looked on and laughed at ,rumsey and ,fitch and ,fulton while they were constructing their steamboats4 ,even when they were used for inland navigation1 men of science declared ocean navigation by steam impracticable1 up to the very hour of its consummation4 ,in like manner with electricity1 scientists declared an ocean telegraph impossible1 asserting that the current strong enough to bear messages would melt the wires4 ,nothing could be more unpopular than railways were at their start4 ,in ,england1 ,stephenson's were called nuisances1 and false prophets arose then 7as now with ,keely's inventions7 to foretell their failure4 ,it was predicted that they would soon be abandoned1 and1 if not given up1 that they would starve the poor1 destroy canal interests1 crush thousands in fearful accidents1 and cover the land with horror4 ,when ,i say that the existence of this force is established1 ,i do not mean that it is established by a favourable verdict from public opinion1--which1 as ,douglas ,jerrold said1 is but the average stupidity of mankind1 and which is always steadily and persistently opposed to great and revolutionary discoveries4 ,establishment consists in convincing men competent to judge that the effects produced by etheric force could not be caused by any known force4 ,and it is now years since such a verdict was first given1 substantiated repeatedly since1 by the testimony of men as incapable of fraud or collusion as is the discoverer himself4 ,newton1 in discovering the existence of a force which we call gravity1 did not pursue his investigations sufficiently far to proclaim a power which neutralizes or overcomes gravity1 the existence of which ,keely demonstrates in his vibratory-lift experiments4 ,but it is one thing to discover a force in nature1 and quite another thing to control it4 ,it is one thing to lasso a wild horse1 and quite another thing to subdue the animal1 harness it1 bridle it1 and get the curb-bit in the mouth4 ,keely has lassoed his wild horse2 he has harnessed it and bridled it2 and when he has the bit in its place1 this force will take its stand with steam and electricity1 asking nothing1 and giving more than science ever before conferred on the human race4 ,the ,home ,journal of ,october #bjth1 #ahhf1 contained a paper which possesses some interest as having been written at the time ,mr4 ,keely was using what he called a ,liberator1 which enabled him to dispense with the use of water2 but he was obliged to return to his former method soon after4 ,etheric ,vibration4 ,the late editor of the ,new ,york ,home ,journal1 noticing the preceding paper1 which appeared in ,lippincott's ,magazine1 asks3--,but is not this new force too mighty to be managed by mere earthly instruments1 such as iron1 copper1 or lead8 ,it is the key force1 the one that presided over the creation of these very metals1 and can it reasonably be expected to be caged and fettered by them8 ,can the bubble withstand the onset of the wave1 of which it is a mere drift8 ,when lightning was first drawn from the clouds by ,franklin1 did it occur to any man living to predict that electricity 7which ,keely defines as a certain form of atomic vibration7 could be stored1 to use at will as a motive power8 ,if atomic vibration can be made to serve the purposes of mechanics1 why not etheric vibration8 ,but let ,keely answer for himself4 ,some years since he wrote as follows3--,in analyzing theoretically the mechanical standard necessary for a solution of the philosophy of ',etheric ,vibration1' and the systematic mechanism to produce a rotating circle of etheric force1 ,i must admit that the phenomenon1 as presented to myself1 by seeming accident1 after almost a lifetime of study1 still partially holds itself to my understanding as paradoxical4 ,after constructing many mechanical devices in my vain attempts to come more closely to what ,i term a radiaphonic vibratory position1 with microphonic adjustments1 ,i have only been able to reach a few true and standard positions1 which ,i can satisfactorily analyze4 ,there is but one principle underlying all1 and this principle is the key to the problem4 ,keely continues with an explanation of the mechanism of his generator1 which he invented and constructed for the multiplication of vibrations1 under the disturbance of equilibrium by mediums of different specific gravities--air as one1 water as the other4 ,he has since abandoned the generator for a vibratory machine which he calls a liberator1 in which no water is used to develop the force3 the disturbance of the equilibrium being effected by a medium thoroughly vibratory in its character4 ,the vapour which ,keely produces from this liberator is perfectly free from all humidity1 thus giving it a tenuity which he had never been able to reach before1 and of a character most desirable for the perfect and high lines of action4 ,in the various improvements which ,keely has made in his mechanism1 feeling his way in the dark as it were1 he sometimes speaks of having stupidly stumbled over them1 of seeming accident1 or seeming chance1 where another would call it inspiration4 ,providence sends chance1 and man moulds it to his own design4 ,the improvement upon the generator was conceived by ,keely during his desperate struggles to effect a simultaneous action between the molecular and atomic leads--an action that was absolutely essential for the full line of continuation4 ,this shorter and simpler way of reaching his desired end was suggested1 in part1 to him by a quotation from some one of our scientific writings1 made in a letter that he received4 ,i am not sure about this quotation1 but ,i think it was3 ,nature works with dual force1 but at rest she is a unit4 ,in the image of ,god made ,he man1 and in the image of man ,keely has constructed his liberator4 ,not literally1 but1 as his vibrophone 7for collecting the waves of sound and making each wave distinct from the other in tone when the wave-plate is struck after the sound has died away7 is constructed after the human ear1 so his liberator corresponds in its parts to the human head4 ,but to return to the question asked in the ,home ,journal4 ,can this subtle force reasonably be expected to be caged and fettered by mere earthly instruments8 ,this is the answer1 as given by ,keely himself3 ,you ask my opinion regarding my ultimate success in the practical use of etheric force4 ,my faith is unbounded by doubts4 ,the successful result is as positive as the revolutions of our globe1 and comes under the great law which governs all nature's highest and grandest and most sensitive operations4 ,since ,keely wrote the above lines he has had time to get discouraged1 if he could know discouragement2 but he has conquered too many of the stupendous problems1 which barricaded his way in the past1 not to feel equally sanguine now of eventual success in his last problem1 viz4 the attaining of continuity of action1 which at the present time seems all but within his grasp4 ,some of his views may prove of interest at a time when his achievements are beginning to be a little better understood4 ,gravity he defines as transmittive inter-etheric force under immense etheric vibration4 ,he continues3--,the action of the mind itself is a vibratory etheric evolution1 controlling the physical1 its negative power being depreciatory in its effects1 and its positive influence elevating4 ,the idea of getting a power as tenuous as this under such control as to make it useful in mechanics is scouted by all physicists4 ,and no wonder that it is so4 ,but when the character of the velocity of etheric force1 even in a molecule1 is understood1 the mind that comprehends it must succumb to its philosophy4 ,to move suddenly a square inch of air1 at the velocity of this vibratory circuit1 on full line of graduation1 and at a vibration only of #b1gej1jjj per second1 would require a force at least of twenty-five times that of gunpowder4 ,taking the expansive force of gunpowder at #ba1jjj lbs4 per square inch1 it would be #ebe1jjj lbs4 per square inch4 ,this is incomprehensible4 ,the explosion of nitroglycerine1 which has two and a half times less vibrations per second1 when placed on the surface of a solid rock1 will tear up the rock before disturbing the equilibrium of the air above it4 ,the disturbance takes place after the explosion4 ,to induce an action on a weight of only twenty grains1 the weight of a small bird-shot1 with a range of motion of but one inch1 giving it an action of one million per second1 would require the actual force of two and a half tons per second2 or1 in other words1 ten-horse power per minute4 ,etheric vibration would move tons at the same velocity when submitted to the vibratory circuit4 ,thus1 the finer the substance the greater the power and the velocity under such vibration4 ,the vapour from the liberator1 registered at #bj1jjj pounds per square inch1 has a range of atomic motion of #accc #a_/c the diameter of the atmospheric molecule1 with constant rotary vibratory action4 ,at #aj1jjj pounds1 #fff #b_/c2 at #ejjj1 #ccc #a_/c2 at #bejj1 #aff #b_/c2 at #abej1 #hc #a_/c2 at #fbe1 #da #b_/c4 ,the higher the range of atomic motion the greater is its tenuity1 and the range is according to the registered pressure4 ,this rule cannot be applied to any other vapour or gas at present known to scientists4 ,the very evolution on the negative shows a vacuum of a much higher order than was ever produced before1 thus confounding1 to perfect blindness1 all theories that have been brought to bear upon the situation1 in its analysis4 ,the highest vacuum known is #ag #iiiiii-ajjjjjj pounds1 or not quite #cj inches2 but by this process etheric vacuums have been repeatedly produced of #ej to #eg inches2 ranging down to #cj inches1 or #ae pounds4 ,all operations of nature have for their sensitizing centres of introductory action1 triple vacuum evolutions4 ,these evolutions are centred in what ,i call atomic triple revolutions1 highly radiaphonic in their character1 and thoroughly independent of all outside forces in their spheres of action4 ,in fact1 no conceivable power1 however great1 can break up their independent centres4 ,so infinitely minute are they in their position that1 within a circle that would enclose the smallest grain of sand1 hundreds of billions of them perform1 with infinite mathematical precision1 their continuous vibratory revolution of inconceivable velocity4 ,these triple centres are the very foundation of the universe1 and the great ,creator has1 in ,his majestic designs1 fixed them indissolubly in their position4 ,mathematically considered1 the respective and relative motion of these atomic triplets1 gravitating to and revolving around each other1 is about one and one-third of their circumference4 ,the problem of this action1 when reduced to a mathematical analysis 7presupposing taking it as the quadrature of the circle7 would baffle the highest order of mathematical science known to bring it to a numerical equation4 ,the requirement of every demonstration is that it shall give sufficient proof of the truth it asserts4 ,any demonstration which does less than this cannot be relied upon1 and no demonstration ever made has done more than this4 ,we ought to know that the possibilities of success are in proportion as the means applied are adequate or inadequate for the purpose2 and1 as different principles exist in various forms of matter1 it is quite impossible to demonstrate every truth by the same means or the same principles4 ,i look upon it as the prejudice of ignorance which exacts that every demonstration shall be given by a prescribed rule of science1 as if the science of the present were thoroughly conversant with every principle that exists in nature4 ,the majority of physicists exact this1 though some of them know that these means are entirely inadequate4 ,every revolving body is impressed by nature with certain laws making it susceptible of the operation of force which1 being applied1 impels motion4 ,these laws may all be expressed under the general term1 ,forces1 which1 though various in their nature1 possess an equalizing power2 controlling each other 7as in the case of the atomic triplets7 in such a way that neither can predominate beyond a certain limit4 ,consequently1 these bodies can never approach nearer each other than a fixed point3 nor recede from each other beyond another certain point4 ,hence1 these forces are1 at some mean point1 made perfectly equal1 and therefore may be considered as but one force2 therefore as but one element4 ,it matters not that other and disturbing forces exist outside or inside the space these bodies revolve in1 because if this force must be considered as acting uniformly--applying itself to each of these bodies in a way to produce a perfect equation on all1 it is as if this outside force were non-existing4 ,the true study of the ,deity by man being in the observation of ,his marvellous works1 the discovery of a fundamental1 creative law of as wide and comprehensive grasp as would make this etheric vapour a tangible link between ,god and man would enable us to realize1 in a measure1 the actual existing working qualities of ,god ,himself 7speaking most reverentially7 as he would those of a fellow-man4 ,such a link would constitute a base or superstructure of recognition1 praise1 worship and imitation1 such as seems to underlie the whole ,biblical structure as a foundation4--,keely4 ,dr4 ,macvicar1 in his theories of the bearing of the cosmical law of assimilation on molecular action1 says3 ,during this retreat of matter into ether in single material elements or units of weight1 the molecules and masses from which such vaporization into the common vapour of matter is going on1 may be expected to be phosphorescent4 ,this surmise ,keely has1 over and over1 demonstrated1 as a fact2 also showing how gravitation operates as a lever3 etheric wave motion3 concentration under vibratory concussion3 and negative vacuous tenuity4 ,mrs4 ,f4 ,j4 ,hughes1 writing upon ,tones and ,colours1 advances theories of her own1 which correspond with those demonstrated by ,keely4 ,she writes1 in a private letter3 ,i firmly believe that exactly the same laws as those which develop sound keep the heavenly bodies in their order4 ,you can even trace the poles in sound4 ,my great desire is for some philosophical mind to take up my views1 as entirely gained from the ,scriptures2 and ,i am certain that they will be found to be the laws developing every natural science throughout the universe4 ,thus men and women in various parts of the world who still hold to their belief in and worship of ,god1 are standing on ground which is truly scientific1 having nothing to fear from the progress of thought1 in so far as it is entitled to the name of scientific--nay1 are in a position to lead the way in all that can be justly so called4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,the ,,fountain ,,head ,,of ,,force4 ,those who occupy themselves with the mysteries of molecular vibration bear the victorious wreaths of successful discovery1 and show that every atom teems with wonders not less incomprehensible than those of the vast and bright far-off suns4--,reynolds4 ,the famous ,keely motor1 which has been hovering on the horizon of success for a decade1 is but an attempt to repeat in an engine of metal the play of forces which goes on at the inmost focus of life1 the human will1 or in the cosmic spaces occupied only by the ultimate atoms4 ,the engineer with his mallet shooting the cannon-ball by means of a few light taps on a receiver of depolarized atoms of water is only re-enacting the rle of the will when with subtle blows it sets the nerve aura in vibration1 and this goes on multiplying in force and sweep of muscle until the ball is thrown from the hand with a power proportionate to the one-man machinery4 ,the inventor ,keely seeks a more effective machinery2 a combination of thousands of will-forces in a single arm1 as it were4 ,but he keeps the same vibrating principle1 and the power in both cases is psychical4 ,that is1 in its last analysis4--,george ,perry4 ,one eternal and immutable law embraces all things and all times4--,cicero4 ,when the truth is made known1 it will unwarp the complications of man's manufacture2 and show everything in nature to be very simple4--,david ,sinclair1 author of ,a ,new ,creed4--,digby1 ,long ,co4 ,a gradual change seems to be taking place in the minds of the well-informed in reference to the discoverer of1 and experimenter with1 etheric force--,john ,worrell ,keely--which will in time remove the burden of accusations from him to those who are responsible for the load which he has had to carry4 ,those who know the most of ,mr4 ,keely's philosophy1 and of his inventions to apply this new force to mechanics1 are the most sanguine as to his ultimate success4 ,they say he is great enough in soul1 wise enough in mind1 and sublime enough in courage to overcome all difficulties1 and to stand at last before the world as the greatest discoverer and inventor in the world3--that the hour demanded his coming--that he was not born for his great work before his appointed time4 ,they predict that he will1 with the hammer of science1 demolish the idols of science2 that the demonstration of the truth of his system will humble the pride of those scientists who are materialists1 by revealing some of the mysteries which lie behind the world of matter2 proving that physical disintegration affects only the mode1 and not the existence1 of individual consciousness4 ,the discovery of vibratory etheric force1 even though never utilized in mechanics1 brings us upon the bridge which divides physical science from spiritual science1 and opens up domains the grandeur and glory of which eye hath not seen1 ear hath not heard1 nor hath it entered into the mind of man to conceive4 ,the few who understand the nature and the extent of ,keely's vast researches say that he is about to give a new philosophy to the world1 which will upset all other systems2 they say that he knows what force is2 and that he seeks to know what impels and fixes the neutral centre1 which attracts to itself countless correlations of matter1 until it becomes a world2 that he is approaching the origin of life1 of memory1 and of death2 and more1 that he knows how ignorant he still is3 possessing the humility of a little child who knows nothing of science4 ,such a philosopher deserves the appreciation and the encouragement of all who hold ,truth as the one thing most worth living for--and dying for1 if need be4 ,what is etheric force8 the inquirer asks4 ,it is the soul of nature4 ,it is the primal force from which all the forces of nature spring4 ,fichte writes3 ,the will is the living principle of the world of spirit1 as motion is of the world of sense4 ,i stand between two opposite worlds2 the one visible1 in which the act alone avails2 the other invisible and incomprehensible1 acted on only by the will4 ,i am an effective force in both these worlds4 ,newton said that this subtle ether penetrates through all1 even the hardest bodies1 and is concealed in their substance4 ,through the strength and activity of this spirit1 bodies attract each other1 and adhere together when brought into contact4 ,in it1 and by it1 distance is annihilated1 and all objects touch each other4 ,through this life spirit light also flows1 and is refracted and reflected1 and warms bodies4 ,through it we are connected in sympathy with all other souls1 and all the objects of nature1 even to all the heavenly bodies4 ,the word ether is from aith1 to light up or kindle4 ,according to ,pythagoras and all the oldest philosophers1 it was viewed as a divine luminous principle or substance1 which permeates all things1 and1 at the same time1 contains all things4 ,they called it the astral light4 ,the ,germans call it the ,weltgeist1 the breath of the ,father1 the ,holy ,ghost1 the life-principle4 ,the sheet-anchor of ,keely's philosophy is1 in the words of ,hooker1 one power1 ever present1 ever ruling1 neglecting not the least1 not quailing before the greatest3 the lowest not excluded from its care1 nor the highest exempted from its dominion4 ,a power that presents itself to us as a force3 the one force in nature1 thrilling to its deepest heart1 and flowing forth responsive to every call4 ,a power which does all things1 and assumes all forms2 which has been called electricity in the storm1 heat in the fire1 magnetism in the iron bar1 light in the taper1 but ever one grand reality1 one all-embracing law4 ,cosmical law at the fountain-head1 suggesting that1 as the ,creator ,himself is only one in substance1 so also1 primarily1 will the creation be1 to which ,he awards existence4 ,the extreme simplicity of this deduction1 made as it is in the face of all the variety and multiplicity of individualized objects that there are in the universe1 seems to involve many difficulties4 ,but1 as ,macvicar writes1 different beings1 whether classes or individuals1 are known to us1 not by any difference in their substance1 but only by differences in their attributes4 ,and since being or substance1 and power or potentiality1 differ from each other only in conception1 only as the statical differs from the dynamical1 it is reasonable1 nay1 in the circumstances it is alone legitimate1 to suppose that it is not in virtue of some absolute difference in substance 7for none appears71 but only from differences in the quantity or intensity of substance or power in the individual1 and from the variety of their build1 that different individuals display such different potentialities or endowments as they do display2 and come to be justly classified as they are into various orders of beings4 ,inasmuch as the ,author of all is ,himself a ,spiritual ,being1 cosmical law leads us to expect that the type of created being shall be spirit also4 ,nor can ,being in any object be so attenuated or so far removed from ,him who filleth all in all1 but it must surely retain an aura of the spiritual nature4 ,this1 then1 is the corner-stone of ,keely's philosophy--one power2 one law2 order and method reigning throughout creation2 spirit controlling matter2 as the divine order and law of creation1 that the spiritual should govern the material1--that the whole realm of matter should be under the dominion of the world of spirit4 ,when ,keely's discovery has been made known to scientists1 a new field of research will be opened up in the realm of ,philosophy1 where all eternal1 physical1 and metaphysical truths are correlated2 for ,philosophy has been well defined by ,willcox as the science of that human thought which contains all human knowledges4 ,he who possesses the structure of philosophic wisdom built up of all knowledges--grand and sublime--has a mental abode wherein to dwell which other men have not4 ,dr4 ,macvicar says3--,the nearer we ascend to the fountain-head of being and of action1 the more magical must everything inevitably become1 for that fountain-head is pure volition4 ,and pure volition1 as a cause1 is precisely what is meant by magic2 for by magic is merely meant a mode of producing a phenomenon without mechanical appliances--that is1 without that seeming continuity of resisting parts and that leverage which satisfy our muscular sense and our imagination1 and bring the phenomenon into the category of what we call 'the natural'--that is1 the sphere of the elastic1 the gravitating1 the sphere into which the vis inerti is alone admitted4 ,in ,keely's philosophy1 as in ,dr4 ,macvicar's ,sketch of a ,philosophy1 the economy of creation is not regarded as a theory of development all in one direction1 which is the popular supposition1 but as a cycle in which1 after development and as its fruit1 the last term gives again the first4 ,herein is found the link by which the law of continuity is maintained throughout1 and the cycle of things is made to be complete3--the link which is missing in the popular science of the day1 with this very serious consequence1 that1 to keep the break out of sight1 the entire doctrine of spirit and the spiritual world is ignored or denied altogether4 ,joseph ,cook affirms that1 as science progresses1 it draws nearer in all its forms to the proof of the spiritual origin of force--that is1 of the divine immanence in natural law4 ,god was not transiently present in nature--that is1 in a mere creative moment2 nor has ,he now left the world in a state of orphanage1 bereft of a deific influence and care1 but ,he is immanent in nature1 as the ,apostle ,paul affirmed3 ,in ,him we live1 and are moved1 and have our being2 as certainly as the unborn infant's life is that of the mother1 so it is divinely true that somehow ,god's life includes ours4 ,the philosophy of ,keely sets forth the universal ether 7denied by scientists in the last century to suit their views of the celestial spaces1 which they declared to be a vacuum7 as the medium by which our lives are included in ,god's life2 demonstrating how it is that we live because ,he lives1 and shall live as long as ,he exists3 how our being is comprised in ,his1 so that if we could suppose the divine life to come to an end1 ours would terminate with it as surely--to compare great things with small--as a stream would cease to flow when its fountain is dried up2 teaching that our existence may be distinct1 but never separate from ,his1 and that in the hidden depth of the soul there is somewhere a point where our individual being comes in contact with ,god1 and is identified with the infinite life4 ,if extreme vicissitudes of belief on the part of men of science are evidence of uncertainty1 it may be affirmed that1 of all kinds of knowledge1 none is more uncertain than science4 ,the existence of the universal ether is now affirmed again1 and must be affirmed1 as one of the most elementary facts in physical science4 ,sir ,j4 ,f4 ,herschel asserts that1 supposing the ether to be analogous to other elastic media1 an amount of it equal in quantity of matter to that which is contained in a cubic inch of air 7which weighs about one-third of a grain71 if enclosed in a cube of one inch in the side1 would exert a bursting power of upwards of seventeen billions of pounds on each side of the cube1 while common air exerts only fifteen pounds4 ,it should not1 therefore1 be surprising to those who have witnessed the manifestations of etheric force1 as exhibited by ,keely in producing a pressure ranging from #hjjj to #cj1jjj pounds to the square inch1 when modern scientists support ,herschel's views1 as they do1 unhesitatingly2 rather should they be surprised at the marvellous perseverance which has kept ,keely1 in the face of every discouragement1 true to his inspired mission2 conquering every difficulty1 surmounting every obstacle1 and turning his mistakes into stepping-stones which have helped him to attain the goal he has1 from the start1 aimed at reaching--viz4 the utilizing in mechanics of the power he discovered many years ago4 ,before the grandeur and glory of such an attainment1 all things had to give way4 ,like a ,general who sees the fortress looming up in the distance which he must take to complete his victory1 his horse's hoofs trampling the dead and dying in his path1 so has this discoverer and inventor been unmindful of all that lay between him and his goal4 ,taking for the key-note of his experiments1 in applying inter-molecular vapour to the running of an engine1 that all the movements of elastic elements are rhythmical1 he has had problems to solve which needed the full measure of inspiration he has received before he could attain that degree of success which he has now reached4 ,mr4 ,keely realizes the full extent of the difficulties which he yet has to contend with in obtaining continuity of action1 though1 with his sanguine temperament1 anticipating near and complete success4 ,to quote from his writings3--,the mathematics of vibratory etheric science1 both pure and applied1 require long and arduous research4 ,it seems to me that no man's life is sufficient1 with the most intense application1 to cover more than the introductory branch4 ,the theory of elliptic functions1 the calculus of probabilities1 are but as pigmies in comparison to a science which requires the utmost tension of the human mind to grasp4 ,but let us wait patiently for the light that will come--that is even now dawning4 ,all we can dream of loveliness within1 ,all ever hoped for by a will intense1 ,this shall one day be palpable to sense1 ,and earth at last become to heaven akin4 ,these four lines1 from ,robert ,browning's sonnet on ,keely's discoveries1 read like an inspired insight into that ,age of ,harmony1 which interpreters of scripture prophecies anticipate the twentieth century will usher into our world2 recalling ,shakespeare's seeming knowledge1 before ,harvey's discovery even1 of the circulation of the blood4 ,all truth is inspired4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,the ,,key ,,to ,,the ,,problems4 ,,keely',s ,,secrets4 ,causa latet1 vis est notissima4--,proverb4 7,the cause is hidden1 the power is most apparent47 ,electricity is in principle as material as water2 so it appears1 and ,mr4 ,carl ,hering has expressed the fact with much of clearness and force4 ,he says1 ,it is a well-known fact that the quantity of electricity measured in coulombs never is generated1 never is consumed1 and never does grow less1 excepting leakage4 ,the current flowing out of a lamp is exactly the same in quantity as that going into it2 the same is true of motors and of generators1 showing that electricity of itself is neither consumed while doing work nor is it generated4 ,after doing work in a lamp or motor1 it comes out in precisely the same quantity as it entered4 ,a battery is not able to generate quantity or coulombs of electricity2 all it is able to do is to take the quantity which pours in at one pole1 and sends out at the other pole with an increased pressure4 ,electricity1 therefore1 is not merely force 7or a form of energy71 but matter4 ,it is precisely analogous to water in a water circuit4444--,the ,court ,journal4 ,the theory of ,aristotle concerning heat1 viz4 that it is a condition of matter1 together with the dicta of ,locke1 ,davy1 ,rumford1 and ,tyndall1 have been consigned of late by many to the tomb of exploded theories1 and are replaced by those of ,lavoisier and ,black1 which make caloric an actual substance4 ,the ,rev4 ,j4 ,j4 ,smith1 ,m4,a41 ,d4,d41 tells us that the only way the great problem of the universe can ever be scientifically solved is by studying1 and arriving at just conclusions with regard to1 the true nature and character of force4 ,he maintains1 in his paper upon ,the ,unity and ,origin of ,force1 that1 as it is the great organizer of matter1 it must not only be superior to it1 but also must have been prior1 as it existed before organization commenced1 and immanent always4 ,newton1 who scoffed at ,epicurus's idea that gravitation is essential and inherent in matter1 asserted that gravity must be caused by an agent acting1 constantly1 according to certain laws4 ,heat1 gravity1 light1 electricity1 magnetism1 chemical affinities1 are all different phases of the primal force discovered by ,keely1 and all these forces1 it is said1 can be obtained from a single ray of sunlight4 ,the evidence of unity or oneness even between the physical1 vital1 mental1 and spiritual is seen in the light of this law of correlation1 says ,smith4 ,a great portion of our muscles contract and relax in obedience to our wills1 thereby proving that the mental force can be1 and is1 in every such instance actually converted into the muscular or the physical4 ,keely demonstrates the truth of this assertion1 claiming that all forces are indestructible1 immaterial1 and homogeneous entities1 having their origin and unity in one great intelligent personal will force4 ,the ,duke of ,argyll says3--,we know nothing of the ultimate seat of force4 ,science1 in the modern doctrine of conservation of energy1 and the convertibility of forces1 is already getting something like a firm hold of the idea that all kinds of forces are but forms or manifestations of some one central force1 issuing from some one fountain-head of power4 ,it is ,keely's province to prove to materialists--to the world--that this one fountain-head is none other than the ,omnipotent and all-pervading ,will-,force of the ,almighty1 which upholds1 guides1 and governs1 not only our world1 but the entire universe4 ,this important truth is destined to shiver the tottering fabric of materialism into fragments at no distant day4 ,professor ,george ,bush writes3--,the progress of scientific research1 at the present day1 has distinguished itself not less by the wideness of the field over which its triumphs have spread1 than by the soundness and certainty of the inductions by which it is sustained4 ,it is equally indisputable that we are approximating the true philosophy which underlies the enlarged and enlarging spiritual experiences and phenomena of the current age4 ,that this philosophy1 when reached1 will conduct us into the realm of the spiritual as the true region of causes1 and disclose new and unthought-of relations between the world of matter and of mind1 is doubtless a very reasonable anticipation1 and one that even now is widely1 though vaguely1 entertained4 ,the ,egyptians worshipped ,ra1 their name for the sun1 and ,ammon1 the emblem of a mysterious power concealed from human perception4 ,the ,supreme ,being is the grand central spiritual sun1 the source and centre of all life1 whose revelation is traced in imperishable figures of universal harmony on the face of ,cosmos4 ,the outward visible world is but the clothing of the invisible1 wrote ,coleridge4 ,the whole world process1 in its content1 says von ,hartmann1 is only a logical process2 but in its existence a continued act of will4 ,lilly continues1 ,that is what physical law means4 ,reason and ,will are inseparably united in the universe1 as they are in idea4 ,if we will anything1 it is for some reason4 ,in contemplating the structure of the universe1 we cannot resist the conclusion that the whole is founded upon a distinct idea4 ,keely demonstrates the harmony of this distinct idea throughout creation1 and shows us that the sun is the visible effluence and agent1 earthward1 of the ,being without whose prior design and decree there would be no order and no systematic rule on earth1 as well as that in the universal ether we find the link between mind and matter4 ,there is more of heaven than of earth1 in all terrestrial things2 more of spirit than of matter in what are termed material laws4 ,lange1 with prophetic tongue1 says that this age of materialism may prove to be but the stillness before the storm which bursts from unknown gulfs to give a new shape to the world4 ,inch by inch1 step by step1 physical science has marched towards its desired goal--the verge of physical nature1 says ,alcott4 ,when it was thought that the verge was reached1 that the mysteries which lay beyond were for ever barred to mortals by the iron gate of death1 then the discoveries of ,faraday1 ,edison1 and ,crookes pushed further away the chasm which separates the confessedly knowable from the fancied unknowable1 and whole domains previously undreamt of were suddenly exposed to view4 ,not long since1 ,canon ,wilberforce asked ,keely what would become of his discovery and his inventions in case of his death before they became of commercial value to the public4 ,keely replied that he had written thousands of pages1 which he hoped would1 in such an event1 be mastered by some mind capable of pursuing his researches to practical ends2 but in the opinion of the writer1 there is no man living who is fitted for this work4 ,diogenes of ,apollonia identified the reason that regulated the world with the original substance1 air4 ,keely teaches that the original substance is ether1 not air2 and that the world is regulated through this ether by its ,creator4 ,there are many molecules which contain no air--not one molecule that does not contain the one true original substance1 ether4 ,up to #ahhh ,keely was still pursuing the wrong line of research1 still trying to construct an engine which could hold the ether in a rotating circle of etheric force2 still ignorant of the impossibility of ever reaching commercial success on that line4 ,it was the end of the year before he could be brought to entirely abandon his perfect engine2 and to confine himself to researches1 which he had been pursuing in connection with his repeated failures on the commercial line1 to gain more knowledge of the laws which govern the operation of the force that1 like a ,will-o'-the-wisp1 seemed to delight in leading him astray4 ,up to this time his researching devices had been principally of his own construction2 but from the time that he devoted himself to the line of research1 marked out for him to follow1 he was supplied with the best instruments that opticians could make for him after the models or designs which he furnished4 ,if1 from #ahhb to #ahhh1 he walked with giant strides along the borders of the domain that he had entered1 from #ahhh to the present time he has made the same progress beyond its borders4 ,from the hour in which he grasped the key to the problem1 the principle underlying all1 the dawn of a new order of things1 broke upon his vision1 and he was no longer left at the mercy of the genii whom he had aroused4 ,in ,july1 #ahhh1 the ,t4,p4,s4 published the succeeding paper1 which had a wide circulation4 ,,keely',s ,,secrets4 #ahhh4 ,part ,i4 ,science is to know things4--,herodotus4 ,knowledge is developed by experience from innate ideas4--,plato4 ,truth is not attained through reflection1 but through immediate intuition4 ,we neither originate thought nor its form4--,aryan ,teachings4 ,it may be said that if all things come from only one cause or internal source1 acting within itself1 then motion and matter must be fundamentally and essentially one and the same1 and we may look upon matter as being latent force and upon force as being free matter4--,franz ,hartmann1 ,m4,d4 ,john ,worrell ,keely--the discoverer of compound inter-etheric force1 as the result of more than twenty years of persistent effort to apply this force to the operation of machinery has1 at last1 been enabled to produce partial continuity of motion in his engine2 but1 up to this time1 he has not so mastered this subtle force as to control reversions4 ,the development of his various discoveries has been one uninterrupted work of evolution1 reaching1 within the last year1 he thinks1 the sphere of perfect vibratory sympathy1 both theoretically and practically4 ,the proof of this is found in the fact that he now transmits vibrations along a wire1 connected at one end with the vibratory machine which is the source of power1 and at its other end with the engine or cannon1 as the case may be1 which is operated by such vibratory power4 ,until recently1 comparatively speaking1 ,keely stored force1 as he generated it1 in a receiver2 and experiments were made by him in the presence of thousands1 at various times1 for the purpose of testing the operations of this force1 liberated in the presence of his audience and stored up in this small receiver4 ,the editor of the ,scientific ,arena thus describes what took place at one of these exhibitions1 when he was present3--,the confined vapour was passed through one of the small flexible tubes to a steel cylinder on another table1 in which a vertical piston was fitted so that its upper end bore against the underside of a powerful1 weighted lever4 ,the superficial area of this piston was equal to one-half of a square inch1 and it acted as a movable fulcrum placed close to the hinged end of the short arm of this lever1 whose weight alone required a pressure of #aejj pounds to the square inch against the piston to lift it4 ,after testing the pressure by several small weights1 added to that of the lever itself1 in order1 to determine how much power had already been accumulated in the receiver1 the maximum test was made by placing an iron weight of #ehj pounds1 by means of a differential pulley1 on the extreme end of the long arm of the lever4 ,to lift this weight1 without that of the lever supporting it1 would require a pressure against the piston of #ah1ijj pounds to the square inch1 counting the difference in the length of the two arms and the area of the piston1 which we1 as well as several others present1 accurately calculated4 ,when all was ready1 and the crowded gathering had formed as well as possible to see the test1 ,keely turned the valve-wheel leading from the receiver to the flexible tube1 and through it into the steel cylinder beneath the piston1 and simultaneously with the motion of his hand the weighted lever shot up against its stop1 a distance of several inches1 as if the great mass of iron had been only cork4 ,then1 in order to assure ourselves of the full #be1jjj pounds to the square inch claimed1 we added most of our weight to the arm of the lever without forcing the piston back again4 ,after repeating this experiment till all expressed themselves satisfied1 ,keely diverted his etheric gas to the exciting work of firing a cannon1 into which he placed a leaden bullet about an inch in diameter4 ,he conveyed the force from the receiver by the same kind of flexible copper tube1 attaching one end of it to the breech of the gun4 ,when all was again in readiness he gave a quick turn to the inlet valve1 and a report like that of a small cannon followed1 the ball passing through an inch board and flattening itself out to about three inches in diameter1 showing the marvellous power and instantaneous action of this strange vapour4 ,the difficulty encountered by ,keely in his old generator of etheric force grew out of the fact1 in part1 that the vaporic power produced was so humid that he could not1 when he attempted to utilize it1 obtain its theoretical value in work4 ,this difficulty has been entirely overcome by dispensing with the water which he used in liberating etheric force1 by his old generator2 and1 by this departure1 he has attained a success beyond that which was anticipated by himself1 when he abandoned his original line of experiment4 #d ,ignorant1 indeed1 of the nature of ,keely's work must those men be who accuse him of abandoning his base or principle1 each time that he discovers his mistakes3--using them as stepping-stones to approach nearer and still nearer to his goal4 ,reproaching him1 even1 for keeping his own counsel1 until certainty of success rendered it prudent for him to make known that he had changed his field of experiment from positive attraction to negative attraction4 ,equally ignorant are those1 who would wrench by force his secrets from him before the time is ripe for their disclosure4 ,let us suppose that ,faraday1 when he discovered radiant matter in #ahaf1 had formed a ,faraday ,phospho-,genetic ,radiant ,company1 to enable him to experiment3 fully cognizant of all that ,crookes has since discovered1 and had taken for his base in experimenting the principle involved in ,crookes's discovery4 ,not succeeding at first1 we will suppose that the ,company became clamorous for returns1 and demanded that his secret principle should be made public4 ,had he been driven into making it known1 who would have credited what ,crookes is now able to prove8 ,the effect would have been upon the ,faraday ,company the same as if a balloon were punctured just as it was soaring heavenward4 ,the same with the ,keely ,motor ,company1 had ,keely obeyed the order of the ,court in #ahhb1 and made his marvellous secret public4 ,it would have collapsed4 ,therefore1 he has maintained his secret in the interests of the stockholders of the ,keely ,motor ,company with a firmness worthy of a ,christian martyr4 ,the one person to whom alone ,keely then disclosed it thought him under a delusion1 until he had demonstrated its soundness4 ,charles ,b4 ,collier1 ,keely's patent lawyer1 writes as follows1 concerning the difficulties attendant upon the supposed duty of his client's imparting his secrets1 as ordered by the ,court to do1 some time since3-- ,if to-day1 for the first time in your lives1 you saw a harp1 attuned and being played upon1 and the science of music was unknown to you1 you would hardly expect1 without considerable time and study1 to be able to reproduce the harp1 attune its strings in proper relation to each other1 and to play upon it so as to produce the harmonies which you had listened to4 ,mr4 ,keely's work is analogous to the illustration which ,i have presented1 inasmuch as he is dealing with the subject of sound1 or acoustics1 but in a much more involved form than as applied simply for the production of harmonies for the delight of the ear4 ,mr4 ,keely's engine is analogous to the mechanism of the human ear1 in the respect that it is a structure operated upon1 and its motion induced by vibration2 and to the end of securing and attaining1 in and by it1 uniformity or regularity of motion1 there must be perfect unison1 or synchronism1 as between it and his structure which is the prime source of vibration4 ,to attain this perfect unison or synchronism1 has involved unparalleled research and experiment upon his part--experiments that have varied from day to day4 ,no one1 in my opinion1 who had not stood by his side1 as his shadow1 watching every experiment1 could have kept fully abreast of him4 ,to pursue my simile1 ,i may say that his harp 7engine7 is not yet perfectly attuned 7graduated72 when it is so1 it will produce nothing but harmony 7regularity of motion71 and his work will be finished4 ,at such time1 ,i doubt not that he will be able to give to ,mr4 ,boekel1 myself or another1 the scale with which to reconstruct and attune another apparatus so as to produce like results with it2 but to go over the ground that he has gone over1 to explore the wilderness in which he has been the pioneer1 in other words1 the study1 to a full understanding of them1 of his experiments and researches1 as recorded in his writings and illustrated in the beautiful charts which he has produced1 will be a work rather for scientists than for mechanicians or engineers4 ,keely's ,theoretical ,expos is in preparation for the press2 and1 when these volumes are issued1 we may look for a change of attitude towards him in all men who hold themselves ready to abandon1 preconceived notions1 however cherished1 if they be found to contradict truths2 which1 ,herbert ,spencer says1 is the first condition of success in scientific research4 ,the ,rev4 ,j4 ,j4 ,smith1 ,m4,a41 ,d4,d41 tells us that the only way the great problem of the universe can ever be scientifically solved is by studying1 and arriving at just conclusions with regard to the true nature and character of force4 ,this has been ,mr4 ,keely's life study2 and he is able to demonstrate all that he asserts4 ,laurence ,oliphant writes3 ,recent scientific research has proved conclusively that all force is atomic--that electricity consists of files of particles1 and that the interstellar spaces contain substances1 whether it be called ether or astral fluid 7or by any other name71 which is composed of atoms1 because it is not possible to dissever force from its transmitting medium4 ,the whole universe1 therefore1 and all that it contains1 consists of matter in motion1 and is animated by a vital principle which we call ,god4 ,science has further discovered that these atoms are severally encompassed by an ethereal substance which prevents their touching each other1 and to this circumambient1 inter-atomic element they have given the name of dynasphere2 but1 inasmuch as has further been found1 that in these dynaspheres there resides a tremendous potency1 it is evident that they also must contain atoms1 and that these atoms must in their turn be surrounded by dynaspheres1 which again contain atoms1 and so on ad infinitum4 ,matter thus becomes infinite and indestructible1 and the force which pervades it persistent and everlasting4 ,this dynaspheric force1 which is also called etheric1 is conditioned as to its nature on the quality of the atoms which form its transmitting media2 and which are infinite both in variety and in their combinations4 ,they may1 however1 be broadly divided into two categories2 viz4 the sentient and the non-sentient atoms4 ,dynaspheric force1 composed of non-sentient atoms1 is the force that has been already mechanically applied by ,mr4 ,keely to his motor2 and which will probably ere long supersede the agencies now used for locomotive1 projectile1 and other purposes4 ,when the laws which govern it come to be understood1 it will produce materially a great commercial and industrial revolution4444 ,the most remarkable illustration of the stupendous energy of atomic vibratory force is to be found in that singular apparatus in ,philadelphia--which for the last fifteen years has excited in turn the amazement1 the scepticism1 the admiration1 and the ridicule of those who have examined it--called ',keely's ,motor' 444 ,in the practical land of its origin1 it has popularly been esteemed a fraud4 ,i have not examined it personally1 but ,i believe it to be based upon a sound principle of dynamics1 and to be probably the first of a series of discoveries destined to revolutionize all existing mechanical theories1 and many of the principles upon which they are founded4 444 ,those who are sufficiently unprejudiced to connect the bearings of this discovery1 of what must be dynaspheric force1 with phenomena which have hitherto been regarded as supernatural by the ignorant1 will perceive how rapidly we are bridging over the chasm which has divided the seen from the unseen4444 ,in #ahhb a lady1 conversing with ,mr4 ,keely1 said1 ,you have opened the door into the spirit-world4 ,he answered1 ,do you think so8 ,i have sometimes thought ,i might be able to discover the origin of life4 ,at this time ,mr4 ,keely had given no attention whatever to the occult bearing of his discovery2 and it was only after he had pursued his researches1 under the advantages which his small ,liberator afforded him for such experiments1 that he realized the truth of this woman's assertion4 ,it was then1 in #ahhg1 that a bridge of mist formed itself before him1 connecting the laws which govern physical science with the laws which govern spiritual science1 and year by year this bridge of mist has solidified1 until now he is in a position to stand upon it1 and proclaim that its abutments have a solid foundation--one resting in the material and visible world1 and the other in the spiritual and unseen world2 or1 rather1 that no bridge is needed to connect the two worlds1 one law governing both in its needed modifications4 ,the physical thing1 writes a modern scientist1 which energizes and does work in and upon ordinary matter1 is a separate form of matter1 infinitely refined1 and infinitely rapid in its vibrations1 and is thus able to penetrate through all ordinary matter1 and to make everywhere a fountain of motion1 no less real because unseen4 ,it is among the atoms of the crystal and the molecules of living matter2 and1 whether producing locked effects or free1 it is the same cosmic thing1 matter in motion1 which we conceive as material energy1 and with difficulty think of as only a peculiar form of matter in motion4 ,the ,president of the ,british ,association1 ,sir ,henry ,roscoe1 in his address before that body1 said3 ,in nature there is no such thing as great or small2 the structure of the smallest particle1 invisible even to our most searching vision1 may be as complicated as that of any of the heavenly bodies which circle round our sun4 ,as to the indivisibility of the atom1 he asks this question3 ,notwithstanding the properties of these elements have been studied1 and are now known with a degree of precision formerly undreamt of1 have the atoms of our present elements been made to yield8 ,he continues3 ,a negative answer must undoubtedly be given1 for even the highest of terrestrial temperatures1 that of the electric spark1 has failed to shake any one of these atoms in two4 ,this is an error1 for it is well known by those who are fully acquainted with the principle involved in ,keely's inventions that the intense vibratory action which is induced in his ,liberator has accomplished what the retort of the chemist has failed to do1 what the electric spark has left intact1 and what the inconceivably fierce temperature of the sun and of volcanic fires has turned over to us unscathed4 ,the mighty ,genii imprisoned within the molecule1 thus released from the chains and fetters which ,nature forged1 has been for years the tyrant of the one who rashly intruded1 without first paving the way with the gold which he has since been accused of using in experiments with reckless and wanton waste6 ,for more than a score of years has ,keely been fighting a hand-to-hand fight with this ,genii2 often beaten back by it1 paralyzed at times1 even1 by its monstrous blows2 and only now so approaching its subjugation as to make it safe to harness it for the work that is calling for a power mightier than steam1 safer and more uniform in operation than electricity2 a power which1 by its might and beneficence1 will ameliorate the condition of the masses1 and reconcile and solve all that now menaces our race3 as it was never menaced before1 as has been said4 ,the structure of the air molecule1 as believed in by ,keely1 is as follows3--,broken up1 by vibratory action1 he finds it to contain what he calls an atomic triplet4 ,the position of a molecule1 on the point of a fine cambric needle sustains the same relation to the point of the needle that a grain of sand sustains to a field of ten acres4 ,although1 as ,sir ,h4 ,roscoe has said1 ,in nature there is no such thing as great or small1 the human mind cannot conceive such infinitesimal minuteness4 ,we will1 then1 imagine a molecule magnified to the size of a billiard ball1 and the atomic triplet magnified to the size of three marbles1 in the triangular position1 within that molecule1 at its centre2 unless acted upon by electricity1 when the molecule1 the billiard ball1 becomes oblate1 and the three atoms are ranged in a line within1 unless broken up by the mighty force of vibratory action4 ,nature never gives us a vacuum2 consequently1 the space within the molecule not occupied by the atomic triplet must e filled with something4 ,this is where the ,genii--the all-pervading ether--has made its secret abode through untold ons1 during which our world has been in course of preparation for its release1 to fulfil its appointed task in advancing the progress of the human race4 ,step by step1 with a patient perseverance which some day the world will honour1 this man of genius has made his researches1 overcoming the colossal difficulties which have raised up in his path what seemed to be insurmountable barriers to further progress3 but never before has the world's index finger so pointed to an hour when all is making ready for the advent of the new form of force that mankind is waiting for4 ,nature1 always reluctant to yield her secrets1 is listening to the demands made upon her by her master1 necessity4 ,the coal mines of the world cannot long afford the increasing drain made upon them4 ,steam has reached its utmost limits of power1 and does not fulfil the requirements of the age4 ,electricity holds back1 with bated breath1 dependent upon the approach of her sister colleague4 ,air ships are riding at anchor1 as it were1 waiting for the force which is to make aerial navigation something more than a dream4 ,as easily as men communicate with their offices from their homes by means of the telephone1 so will the inhabitants of separate continents talk across the ocean4 ,imagination is palsied when seeking to foresee the grand results of this marvellous discovery when once it is applied to art and mechanics4 ,in taking the throne which it will force steam to abdicate1 dynaspheric force will rule the world with a power so mighty in the interests of civilization1 that no finite mind can conjecture the results4 ,in #agdf1 when ,franklin's attention was drawn to the phenomena of electricity1 little more was known on the subject than ,thales had announced two thousand years before4 ,von ,kleist in ,leyden1 ,collinson in ,london1 and others in as widely-separated cities in ,europe1 were experimenting in the same field of research4 ,what our last century has done toward subduing this tyrant which ,franklin succeeded in bringing down to earth1 from the clouds1 the next century will see surpassed beyond man's wildest conjectures1 should ,keely's utilization of this unknown force of nature bestow upon humanity the costless motive power1 which he anticipates it will4 ,reynolds predicted that those who studied the mysteries of molecular vibration would win the victorious wreaths of successful discovery4 ,after such discoveries as ,mr4 ,keely has made in this field of research1 it matters not to him whether he succeeds commercially or not4 ,his work of discovery commenced when1 as a boy of twelve1 he held the sea-shells to his ear as he walked the shore and noted that no two gave forth the same tone4 ,from the construction of his first crude instrument1 his work of evolution progressed slowly for years2 but within the last five years he has made giant strides towards the ,dark ,tower which is his last fortress to take4 ,when he is ready1 ,dauntless the slug-horn to his lips he will set2 and the world will hear the blast1 and awaken from its slumber into new life4 ,molecular vibration is thus seen to be ,keely's legitimate field of research2 but more than once has he had to tear down portions of the vibratory scaffolding which aided him in the building up of his edifice of philosophy2 therefore1 he is ever ready to admit that some of the present scaffolding may have to be removed4 ,the charge of abandoning his base1 recently brought against him by one of the editors of ,the ,new ,york ,times1 could only have been made by one who is utterly ignorant of the subject upon which he writes4 ,under the heading ,a ,cool ,confession1 this editor asserts that ,keely has given up the ,keely ,motor as a bad job1 and that he admits that he is a bogus inventor and a fraud4 ,this is not true4 ,what ,keely does admit is that1 baffled in applying vibratory force to mechanics1 upon his first and second lines of experimental research1 he was obliged either to confess a commercial failure1 or to try a third departure from his base or principle2 seeking success through another channel of experiment4 ,while experimenting upon this third line1 until his efforts were crowned with success1 he kept his secret from all men2 with the approbation of the one who furnished the money for these experiments4 ,there is a time when silence is golden2 and the charge made by the same editor that ,keely had been receiving money from the ,keely ,motor ,company on false pretences from the time that he abandoned his original plans1 could only have been made by one who knows nothing of the facts of the case3 for years have passed away since the ,keely ,motor ,company broke its contract with him1 and since it has furnished him with any money for his experiments4 ,but let ,keely speak for himself in reference to his work3-- ,in considering the operation of my engine1 the visitor1 in order to have even an approximate conception of its modus operandi1 must discard all thought of engines that are operated upon the principle of pressure and exhaustion1 by the expansion of steam or other analogous gas which impinges upon an abutment1 such as the piston of a steam-engine4 ,my engine has neither piston nor eccentrics1 nor is there one grain of pressure exerted in the engine1 whatever may be the size or capacity of it4 ,my system1 in every part and detail1 both in the developing of this power and in every branch of its utilization1 is based and founded on sympathetic vibration4 ,in no other way would it be possible to awaken or develop this force1 and equally impossible would it be to operate my engine upon any other principle4 ,all that remains to be done is to secure a uniform speed under different velocities and control reversions4 ,that ,i shall accomplish this is absolutely certain4 ,some few years ago1 ,i contemplated using a wire as a connective link between two sympathetic mediums1 to evolve this power as also to operate my machinery--instead of tubular connections as heretofore employed--,i have only recently succeeded in accomplishing successfully such change4 ,this1 however1 is the true system2 and henceforth all my operations will be conducted in this manner--that is to say1 the power will be generated1 my engines run1 my cannon operated1 through a wire4 ,it has been only after years of incessant labour1 and the making of almost innumerable experiments1 involving not only the construction of a great many most peculiar mechanical structures1 and the closest investigation and study of the phenomenal properties of the substance ether1 per se1 produced1 that ,i have been able to dispense with complicated mechanism1 and to obtain1 as ,i claim1 mastery over the subtle and strange force with which ,i am dealing4 ,when my present process of adjustment is completed1 the force1 the mechanism1 and all that pertains to it1 will be fully explained in a theoretical exposition of the subject1 with appropriate diagrams1 which ,i shall publish to the world2 through which medium1 and my patents1 when taken out1 a knowledge of all that is required for its commercial employment will be more easily acquired than is the necessary skill required to enable one to safely operate a steam-engine4 ,the power will be adapted to engines of all sizes and capacities1 as well to an engine capable of propelling the largest ship as to one that will operate a sewing machine4 ,equally well and certain is it that it will be adapted as a projectile force for guns and cannons of all sizes1 from the ordinary shoulder-piece to the heaviest artillery44444 ,when ,keely obtained continuity of motion 7for a time7 in his engine he thought that his last difficulty had been overcome3 but1 up to the present time1 he has not succeeded in governing its speed nor in controlling reversions4 ,he has1 however1 again reduced in size the instrument with which he produces the force4 ,from #ahhb to #ahhd the ,generator was a structure six feet long and correspondingly wide and high2 but1 failing in his attempt to make an automatic arrangement upon which its usefulness in mechanics depended1 ,keely found a new standard for research in an experiment often made by himself1 but never before successful1 which resulted in the production of a machine in #ahhe which he named a ,liberator--not so large as a lady's small round work-table4 ,continuing his labour of evolution ,keely within one year made such astonishing progress1 from experiments with this beautiful piece of vibratory mechanism1 as to combine the production of the power1 and the operation of his cannon1 his engine and his disintegrator in a machine no larger than a dinner plate1 and only three or four inches in thickness4 ,this instrument was completed in #ahhf1 up to which time his experiments had been conducted upon a principle of sympathetic vibration1 for the purpose of liberating a vapoury or etheric product4 ,his later experiments have been confined to another modification of vibratory sympathy2 and the size of the instrument used now1 '#hh1 for the same purposes is no larger than an old-fashioned silver watch1 such as we see in ,museum collections4 ,the raising of a lever with an apparent uplifting expansive force of between #bj1jjj and #cj1jjj pounds to the square inch1 the running of the engine1 the firing of the cannon1 are conducted without one ounce of pressure in any part of the apparatus1 and without the production or presence of what has been known as ,keely's ether4 ,the force is now transmitted along a wire 7of platinum and silver71 and when the lever is lowered there is no exhaustion1 into the atmosphere of the room1 of any up-lifting vapour1 as was always the case when the ether was used in this experiment2 nor is there any vapour impinging upon the piston under the lever to raise it4 ,keely has named this new modification of the one force in nature ,negative ,attraction1 which to the uninitiated does not suggest as much as it would had he called it ,negative ,humbug4 ,the two forms of force which he has been experimenting with1 and the phenomena attending them1 are the very antithesis of each other4 ,keely does not feel the shadow of a doubt as to his eventual success in producing engines of varying capacities2 small enough1 on the one hand1 to operate sewing machines with1 and large enough1 on the other hand1 to propel the largest ships that plough the seas4 ,every fact and feature surrounding the case warrants the belief1 notwithstanding the incredulity of all who have not witnessed the progress of ,mr4 ,keely1 step by step1 that his success will be complete1 and his work stand as the most colossal example of the survival of the fittest1 in the process of inventive evolution4 ,cox says3 ,not one of the great facts which science now accepts as incontrovertible truths but was vehemently denied by the scientists of its time3--declared to be a priori impossible1 its discoverers and supporters denounced as fools or charlatans1 and even investigation of it refused as being a waste of time and thought4 ,history repeats itself1 and ,amiel's definition of science gives the key to the incredulity of scientists in reference to ,mr4 ,keely's discovery2 for if1 as ,amiel has said1 science is a lucid madness occupied with tabulating its own hallucinations1 it is not strange that men of science should refuse to investigate what they consider the hallucinations of others4 ,it is an undisputed fact that too much has been conceded to science1 too little to those sublime laws which make science possible4 ,but the one law which regulates creation1 and to which all other laws are made subservient1 keeping in harmony the systems upon systems of worlds throughout space1 developing sound and colour1 animal and vegetable growth1 the crystallization of minerals1 is the hidden law1 which develops every natural science throughout the universe2 and which both ,kepler and ,newton anticipated would be revealed in our age4 ,you can even trace the poles in sound1 writes ,mrs4 ,f4 ,j4 ,hughes1 in her work upon the ,evolution of ,tones and ,colours4 ,the experiments made by ,mrs4 ,watts ,hughes1 at the annual ,reception of the ,royal ,society1 and the #e,pendulograph writings by ,andrew of ,belfast1 have a bearing upon ,keely's discovery2 illustrating the workings of this hidden law of nature4 ,of the law of periodicity1 ,hartmann writes3 ,its actions have long ago been known to exist in the vibrations producing light and sound1 and it has been recognized in chemistry by experiments tending to prove that all so-called simple elements are only various states of vibration of one primordial element1 manifesting itself in seven principal modes of action1 each of which may be subdivided into seven again4 ,the difference which exists between so-called single substances appears1 therefore1 to be no difference of substance or matter1 but only a difference of the function of matter in the ratio of its atomic vibration4 ,it is by changing the vibrations of cosmic ether that ,mr4 ,keely releases this energy1 and ,dr4 ,kellner in ,austria produces electricity in the same way2 while it is said that a chemist in ,prague produces magnetism2 also ,dr4 ,dupuy1 of ,new ,york1 who has been for years experimenting in this field without meeting with ,keely's progressive successes4 ,horace ,wemyss ,smith1 in commenting upon the fact that1 at the time of ,franklin's discovery1 men in ,france1 in ,belgium1 in ,holland1 and in ,germany were pursuing the same line of experiment1 says that there is something worthy of observation in the progress of science and human genius1 inasmuch as in countries far distant from each other men have fallen into the same tracks1 and have made similar and corresponding discoveries1 at the same period of time1 without the least communication with each other4 ,laurence ,oliphant's recent works give us the clue to an explanation of this fact2 and ,lowe1 in his ,fragments of ,physiology1 condenses the answer in these words3 ,man is not the governor and commander of the created world2 and were it not for superhuman influence constantly flowing into created forms1 the world would perish in a moment4 ,there are men in various parts of the world1 unknown even by name to each other1 who tell us by the signs of the times that the season of harvesting is approaching2 the season for gathering the fruit1 which has been deferred1 century after century1 because mankind is not yet ready1 in the opinion of many1 to share the fruit with one another4 ,it has been said that when ,keely's vibratory force shall have taken the place of steam-engines1 the millions of working men who gain with difficulty their daily bread by the work of their hands1 will find themselves without occupation4 ,the same prediction was made in regard to steam1 but instead we find the city of ,boston giving work to thirty thousand men in one manufactory of boots and shoes by steam1 in place of the three thousand shoemakers who were all that were occupied in this branch of labour in that city when the work was done by hand4 ,dr4 ,kellner's colleague1 ,franz ,hartmann1 ,m4,d41 writing in reference to ,keely's discovery1 says3 ,i have taken great interest in him ever since ,i first heard of him in #ahhb4 ,as gaslight has driven away1 in part1 the smoky petroleum lamp1 and is about to be displaced by electricity1 which in the course of time may be supplanted by magnetism1 and as the power of steam has caused muscular labour to disappear to a certain extent1 and will itself give way before the new vibratory force of ,keely1 likewise the orthodox medical quackery that now prevails will be dethroned by the employment of the finer forces of nature1 such as light1 electricity1 magnetism1 etc4 ,when the time is ripe1 these are of the true scientists who will come to the front to lead as progress leads1 men who know how to wait upon ,god1 viz41 to work while waiting2 and to such the end is1 sooner or later1 victory6 ,god never hurries4 ,he counts the centuries as we count the seconds1 and the nearer we approach to the least comprehension of ,his underlying purpose the more we become like ,tolstoi's labourer1 who knew that the fruit was ripening for him and his fellow-men1 trusting implicitly in the superior wisdom of his master4 ,no man1 whose spiritual eyes have been opened to discern the signs of the times1 can doubt that we are on the eve of revelations which are to usher in the dawn of a brighter day than our race has yet known2 and no prophecy of this brighter day1 foretold by prophets1 apostles1 and inspired poets1 was ever made in truer strains than in these glorious lines of ,elizabeth ,barrett ,browning3-- ,verily many thinkers of this age1 ,aye1 many ,christian teachers1 half in heaven1 ,are wrong in just my sense who understood ,our natural world too insularly1 as if ,no spiritual counterpart completed it1 ,consummating its meaning1 rounding all ,to justice and perfection1 line by line1 ,form by form1 nothing single nor alone2 ,the ,great ,below clenched by the ,great ,above4 ,part ,,ii4 ,one ,phase of ,keely's ,discovery in its ,relations to the ,cure or ,disease4 ,i know medicine is called a science4 ,it is nothing like a science4 ,it is a great humbug6 ,doctors are mere empirics when they are not charlatans4 ,we are as ignorant as men can be4 ,who knows anything in the world about medicine8 ,gentlemen1 you have done me the honour to come here to attend my lectures1 and ,i must tell you now1 frankly1 in the beginning1 that ,i know nothing about medicine1 nor do ,i know anyone who does know anything about it4 ,nature does a great deal1 imagination does a great deal1 doctors do devilish little when they do not do harm4 ,sick people always feel they are neglected1 unless they are well drugged1 les imbciles6 ,professor ,magendie 7before the students of his class in ,the ,allopathic ,college of ,paris74 ,in the year #ahga1 the writer was sent from ,paris to ,schwalbach1 by ,dr4 ,beylard1 and recommended to the care of ,dr4 ,adolph ,genth4 ,she said to the physician1 ,i wish for your opinion and your advice1 if you can give it to me without giving me any medicine4 ,he replied1 ,with all my heart1 madam2 and ,i wish to ,god there were more women like you1 but we should soon lose most of our patients if we did not dose them4 ,this is a terrible excuse for the use of those agencies which ,dr4 ,john ,good says have sent more human beings to their graves than war1 pestilence and famine combined4 ,keely holds the opinion that ,nature works under the one law of ,compensation and ,equilibrium--the law of ,harmony2 and that when disease indicates the disturbance of this law ,nature at once seeks to banish the disease by restoring equilibrium1 ,he seeks to render assistance on the same plan2 replacing grossly material agencies by the finer forces of nature2 as has been so successfully done by ,dr4 ,pancoast and ,dr4 ,babbitt in ,america4 ,nature1 says ,dr4 ,pancoast1 author of ,the ,true ,science of ,light1 works by antagonism in all her operations3 when one of her forces overdoes its work1 disease1 or at least a local disorder1 is the immediate consequence2 now1 if we attack this force1 and overcome it1 the opposite force has a clear field and may re-assert its rights--thus equilibrium is restored1 and ,equilibrium is health4 ,the ,sympathetic ,system1 instead of attacking the stronger force1 sends recruits to the weaker one1 and enables it to recover its powers2 or1 if the disorder be the result of excessive tension of ,nerves or ,ganglia1 a negative remedy may be employed to reduce the tension4 ,thus1 too1 equilibrium is restored4 ,dr4 ,hartmann writes3-- ,mr4 ,keely is perfectly right in saying that 'all disease is a disturbance of the equilibrium between positive and negative forces4' ,in my opinion1 no doctor ever cured any disease4 ,all he can possibly do is to establish conditions under which the patient 7or nature7 may cure himself4 ,if you enter the field of therapeutics and medicine1 we find a decided fermentation of new ideas2 not among the fossil specimens of antediluvian quackery1 but among those who are called irregulars1 because they have the courage to depart from the tracks trodden out by their predecessors4 ,the more intelligent classes of physicians have long ago realized the fact that drugs and medicines are perfectly useless1 excepting in cases where diseases can be traced to some mechanical obstruction1 in some organ that may be reached by mechanical action4 ,in all other cases our best physicians have become agnostics1 leaving nature to have her own way1 and observing the expectative method1 which1 in fact1 is no method of cure at all1 but merely consists in doing no harm to the patient4 ,recently1 however1 light1 electricity1 and magnetism have been employed2 so that even in the medical guild the finer forces of nature are taking the place of grossly material1 and therefore injurious substances4 ,the time is probably near when these finer forces will be employed universally4 ,everybody knows that a note struck upon an instrument will produce sound in a correspondingly attuned instrument in its vicinity4 ,if connected with a tuning fork1 it will produce a corresponding sound in the latter2 and if connected with a thousand such tuning forks1 it will make all the thousand sound1 and produce a noise far greater than the original sound1 without the latter becoming any weaker for it4 ,here1 then1 is an augmentation or multiplication of power4 ,if we had any means to transform sound again into mechanical motion1 we would have a thousand-fold multiplication of mechanical motion4 ,it would be presumptuous to say that it will not be as easy for the scientists of the future to transform sound into mechanical motion1 as it is for the scientist of the present to transform heat into electricity4 ,perhaps ,mr4 ,keely has already solved the problem4 ,there is a fair prospect that in the very near future1 we shall have1 in his ethereal force1 a power far surpassing that of steam or electricity4 ,nor does the idea seem to be ,utopian if we remember that modern science heretofore only knew the law of the conservation of energy2 while to the scientist of the future the law of the augmentation of energy will be unveiled4444 ,as the age which has passed away has been the age of steam1 the coming era will be the age of induction4 ,there will be a universal rising up of lower vibrations into higher ones1 in the realm of motion4 ,mr4 ,keely will1 perhaps1 transform sound into mechanical motion by applying the law of augmentation and multiplication of force4444 ,keely1 writing on brain disturbance1 says1 ,in considering the mental forces as associated with the physical1 ,i find1 by my past researches1 that the convolutions which exist in the cerebral field are entirely governed by the sympathetic conditions that surround them4 ,the question arises1 what are these aggregations and what do they represent1 as being linked with physical impulses8 ,they are simply vibrometric resonators1 thoroughly subservient to sympathetic acoustic impulses given to them by their atomic sympathetic surrounding media1 all the sympathetic impulses that so entirely govern the physical in their many and perfect impulses 7we are now discussing purity of conditions7 are not emanations properly inherent in their own composition4 ,they are only media--the acoustic media--for transferring from their vibratory surroundings the conditions necessary to the pure connective link for vitalizing and bringing into action the varied impulses of the physical4 ,all abnormal discordant aggregations in these resonating convolutions produce differentiation to concordant transmission2 and1 according as these differentiations exist in volume1 so the transmissions are discordantly transferred1 producing antagonism to pure physical action4 ,thus1 in ,motor ,ataxy a differentiation of the minor thirds of the posterior parietal lobule produces the same condition between the retractors and extensors of the leg and foot2 and thus the control of the proper movements is lost through this differentiation4 ,the same truth can be universally applied to any of the cerebral convolutions that are in a state of differential harmony to the mass of immediate cerebral surroundings4 ,taking the cerebral condition of the whole mass as one1 it is subservient to one general head centre1 although as many neutrals are represented as there are convolutions4 ,the introductory minors are controlled by the molecular2 the next progressive third by the atomic2 and the high third by the ,etheric4 ,all these progressive links have their positive1 negative1 and neutral position4 ,when we take into consideration the structural condition of the human brain1 we ought not to be bewildered by the infinite variety of its sympathetic impulses2 inasmuch as it unerringly proves the true philosophy that the mass chords of such structures are governed by vibratory etheric flows--the very material which composes them4 ,there is no structure whatever1 animal1 vegetable1 mineral1 that is not built up from the universal cosmic ether4 ,certain orders of attractive vibration produce certain orders of structure2 thus1 the infinite variety of effects--more especially in the cerebral organs4 ,the bar of iron or the mass of steel1 have1 in each1 all the qualifications necessary1 under certain vibratory impulses1 to evolve all the conditions that govern that animal organism--the brain3 and it is as possible to differentiate the molecular conditions of a mass of metal of any shape so as to produce what you may express as a crazy piece of iron or a crazy piece of steel2 or1 vice vers1 an intelligent condition in the same4 ,i find in my researches1 as to the condition of molecules under vibration1 that discordance cannot exist in the molecule proper2 and that it is the highest and most perfect structural condition that exists2 providing that all the progressive orders are the same4 ,discordance in any mass is the result of differentiated groups1 induced by antagonistic chords1 and the flight or motions of such1 when intensified by sound1 are very tortuous and zig-zag2 but when free of this differentiation are in straight lines4 ,tortuous lines denote discord1 or pain2 straight lines denote harmony1 or pleasure4 ,any differentiated mass can be brought to a condition of harmony1 or equation1 by proper chord media1 and an equated sympathy produced4 ,there is good reason for believing that insanity is simply a condition of differentiation in the mass chords of the cerebral convolutions1 which creates an antagonistic molecular bombardment towards the neutral or attractive centres of such convolutions2 which1 in turn1 produce a morbid irritation in the cortical sensory centres in the substance of ideation2 accompanied1 as a general thing1 by sensory hallucinations1 ushered in by subjective sensations2 such as flashes of light and colour1 or confused sounds and disagreeable odours1 etc41 etc4 ,there is no condition of the human brain that ought not to be sympathetically coincident to that order of atomic flow to which its position1 in the cerebral field1 is fitted4 ,any differentiation in that special organ1 or1 more plainly1 any discordant grouping tends to produce a discordant bombardment--an antagonistic conflict2 which means the same disturbance transferred to the physical1 producing inharmonious disaster to that portion of the physical field which is controlled by that especial convolution4 ,this unstable aggregation may be compared to a knot on a violin string4 ,as long as this knot remains it is impossible to elicit1 from its sympathetic surroundings1 the condition which transfers pure concordance to its resonating body4 ,discordant conditions1 i4e41 differentiation of mass1 produce negatization to coincident action4 ,the question now arises1 ,what condition is it necessary to bring about in order to bring back normality1 or to produce stable equilibrium in the sympathetic centres8 ,the normal brain is like a harp of many strings strung to perfect harmony4 ,the transmitting conditions being perfect1 are ready1 at any impulse1 to induce pure sympathetic assimilation4 ,the different strings represent the different ventricles and convolutions4 ,the differentiations of any one from its true setting is fatal1 to a certain degree1 to the harmony of the whole combination4 ,if the sympathetic condition of any physical organism carries a positive flow of #hj per cent4 on its whole combination1 and a negative one of #bj per cent41 it is the medium of perfect assimilation to one of the same ratio1 if it is distributed under the same conditions to the mass of the other4 ,if two masses of metal1 of any shape whatever1 are brought under perfect assimilation1 to one another1 their unition1 when brought into contact1 will be instant4 ,if we live in a sympathetic field we become sympathetic1 and a tendency from the abnormal to the normal presents itself by an evolution of a purely sympathetic flow towards its attractive centres4 ,it is only under these conditions that differentiation can be broken up1 and a pure equation established4 ,the only condition under which equation can never be established is when a differential disaster has taken place1 of #ff #b_/c against the #ajj pure1 taking the full volume as one4 ,if this #ff #b_/c or even #ajj exists in one organ alone1 and the surrounding ones are normal1 then a condition can be easily brought about to establish the concordant harmony or equation to that organ4 ,it is as rare to find a negative condition of #ff #b_/c against the volume of the whole cerebral mass1 as it is to find a coincident between differentiation2 or1 more plainly1 between two individuals under a state of negative influence4 ,under this new system1 it is as possible to induce negations alike as it is to induce positives alike4 ,pure sympathetic concordants are as antagonistic to negative discordants as the negative is to the positive2 but the vast volume the sympathetic holds over the non-sympathetic1 in ethereal space1 makes it at once the ruling medium and re-adjuster of all opposing conditions if properly brought to bear upon them4 ,until ,keely's ,theoretical ,expos is given to science1 there are few who will fathom the full meaning of these views4 ,his discoveries embrace the manner or way of obtaining the keynote1 or chord of mass1 of mineral1 vegetable1 and animal substances2 therefore1 the construction of instruments1 or machines1 by which this law can be utilized in mechanics1 in arts1 and in restoration of equilibrium in disease1 is only a question of the full understanding of the operation of this law4 ,keely estimates that1 after the introductory impulse is given on the harmonic thirds1 molecular vibration is increased from #bj1jjj per second to #ajj1jjj1jjj4 ,on the enharmonic sixths1 that the vibration of the inter-molecule is increased to #cjj1jjj1jjj4 ,on the diatonic ninths1 that atomic vibration reaches #ijj1jjj1jjj2 on the dominant etheric sixths1 #h1ajj1jjj1jjj2 and on the inter-etheric ninths1 #bd1cjj1jjj1jjj2 all of which can be demonstrated by sound colours4 ,in such fields of research1 ,mr4 ,keely finds little leisure4 ,those who accuse him of dilly-dallying1 of idleness1 of always going to do and never doing1 of visionary plans1 etc41 etc41 know nothing of the infinite patience1 the persistent energy1 which for a quarter of a century has upheld him in his struggle to attain this end4 ,still less1 if possible1 is he understood by those who think he is seeking self-aggrandizement1 fame1 fortune1 or glory4 ,the time is approaching when all who have sought to defame this discoverer and inventor1 all who have stabbed him with unmerited accusations1 all who have denounced him as a bogus inventor1 a fraud1 an impostor1 a charlatan1 a modern ,cagliostro1 will be forced to acknowledge that he has done a giant's work for true science1 even though he should not live to attain commercial success4 ,but history will not forget that1 in the nineteenth century1 the story of ,prometheus has been repeated1 and that the greatest mind of the age1 seeking to scale the heavens to bring down the light of truth for mankind1 met with ,prometheus's reward4 ,note4--,dr4 ,hartmann1 in a report1 or condensed statement1 in reference to ,keely's discovery1 writes as follows3 ,he will never invent a machine by which the equilibrium of the living forces in a disordered brain can be restored4 ,as such a statement would lead the reader of the report to fancy that ,keely expected to invent such an instrument1 it is better to correct the error that ,dr4 ,hartmann has fallen into4 ,keely has never dreamed of inventing such an instrument4 ,he hopes1 however1 to perfect one that he is now at work upon1 which will enable the operator to localize the seat of disturbance in the brain in mental disorders4 ,if he succeeds1 this will greatly simplify the work of re-adjusting opposing conditions2 and will also enable the physician to decide whether the differential disaster has taken place which prevents the possibility of establishing the equation that is necessary to a cure4 ,according to ,keely's theories it is that form of energy known as magnetism--not electricity--which is to be the curative agent of the future1 thus reviving a mode of treatment handed down from the time of the earliest records1 and made known to the ,royal ,society of ,london more than fifty years since by ,professor ,keil1 of ,jena1 who demonstrated the susceptibility of the nervous system to the influence of the natural magnet1 and its efficacy in the cure of certain infirmities4 ,as ,cheston ,morris1 ,m4,d41 has well said in his paper on ,vital ,molecular ,vibrations1 ,we are entering upon a new field in biology1 pathology1 and of course1 therapeutics1 whose limits are at present far beyond our ken4 ,the adaptability of drugs1 says ,dr4 ,henry ,wood1 to heal disease is becoming a matter of doubt1 even among many who have not yet studied deeper causation4 ,materia ,medica lacks the exact elements of a science4 ,the just preponderance1 for good or ill1 of any drug upon the human system is an unsolved problem1 and will so remain4444 ,after centuries of professional research1 in order to perfect the art of healing1 diseases have steadily grown more subtle and more numerous4444 ,only when internal1 divine forces come to be relied upon1 rather than outside reinforcement1 will deterioration cease4 ,said ,plato1 ',you ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul4' ,,chapter ,,viii4 #ahhh4 ,,helpers ,,on ,,the ,,road1 ,,and ,,hinderers4 ,blindfolded and alone we stand1 ,with unknown thresholds on each hand3 ,the darkness deepens as we grope1 ,afraid to fear1 afraid to hope4 ,yet this one thing we learn to know ,each day more surely as we go3 ,that doors are opened1 ways are made1 ,burdens are lifted1 or are laid ,by some great law unseen and still ,unfathomed purpose to fulfil4 ,not as ,i will4 ,the next helper on the road was an ,austrian nobleman1 the ,chevalier ,griez de ,ronse1 who printed a series of papers on ,keely's discoveries in a journal in ,vienna1 then owned by him--,the ,vienna ,weekly ,news4 ,one of these articles mentions that the attention of ,englishmen of science had been drawn to ,keely's claims1 in regard to having imprisoned the ether1 by ,professor ,henri ,hertz's experiments in ether vibrations at the ,bonn ,university4 ,keely1 like the late ,dr4 ,schuster1 says ,the ,vienna ,weekly ,news1 claims on behalf of science the right to prosecute its investigations until a mechanical explanation of all things is attained4 ,the public are still but the children of those who murdered ,socrates1 tolerated the persecution of ,galileo1 and deserted ,columbus4 ,this remark is now illustrated by the imprisonment with felons last month of ,inventor ,keely in ,moyamensing ,prison1 ,philadelphia1 where ,judge ,finletter committed him for contempt of court1 without the shadow of an excuse in the opinions of men who had followed the proceedings against him4 ,under the heading1 ,keely's ,sunday in ,jail1 says a ,philadelphia journal1 ,inventor ,keely spent a quiet ,sunday in ,moyamensing ,prison4 ,the outside iron doors of his cell were thrown open1 when the religious services of the morning began4 ,the imprisoned inventor listened with deep interest4 ,the soft peals of the organ and the melody of the choir1 singing ,nearer1 my ,god1 to ,thee1 floated into the narrow cell4 ,keely sat near the grated door while the minister read selections from the ,scriptures and preached his sermon4 ,while the inventor was resting in his cell1 during the afternoon1 a number of persons made inquiries at the ,untried ,department4 ,they were all told that no one could be admitted on ,sunday1 but a young man with a pallid face lingered4 ,he told the gate-keeper that he was an inventor himself1 and had been waiting for eight years for a patent from ,washington2 adding that1 when he read of ,keely's commitment1 he was reminded of ,galileo who was thrown in a dungeon because he said1 ,the world moves4 ,the following day ,keely was released by order of the ,judges of the ,supreme ,court4 ,his imprisonment exalted him1 instead of degrading him as the unjust judge hoped to do2 drawing the sympathies to him of all men who know what it is to be persecuted for righteousness' sake2 of all men1 in all parts of the world1 who are truth-loving1 justice-loving men4 ,the ,keely ,motor ,company should learn a lesson in this experience4 ,tyndall said1 long since1 that the community that severs itself from great discoveries1 that merely runs after the practical application without reference to the sources of a discovery1 would by-and-by find itself at the end of its tether4 ,this has been verified in the fate of the ,keely ,motor ,company1 which was organized for the purpose of reaping financial benefit from ,keely's grand discovery of an unknown force before his work of evolution1 in obtaining mechanical results1 had fairly commenced4 ,this company has thrown upon the discoverer's shoulders the burden of its stock-jobbing operations1 until ,keely is looked upon by men of science1 as well as by men ignorant of the ,a ,b ,c of science1 as a man working for personal ends2 instead of1 as he should be regarded1 a ,prometheus seeking to give to his fellow-men a costless motive force2 and who1 whether he succeeds financially or not1 is entitled to the admiration of all who believe1 with ,browning1 that effort1 not success1 makes man great4 ,if the ,keely ,motor ,company managers would profit by this lesson1 they will in future seek to find1 among scientific men of world-wide renown1 some one man1 broad enough in mind to care nothing for the ridicule of the ignorant1 who will investigate the nature of ,keely's discoveries1 as demonstrated by his experiments1 instead of inviting reporters to witness the demonstrations1 in their efforts to boom the stock of their company1 by a reporter's accounts of the marvels he has witnessed4 ,for years ,keely had nothing to show1 beyond the generation of the force1 the production of a #cj lb4 vacuum and the discharge of a gun4 ,when once his giant mind had grasped the knowledge1 which again by seeming chance was imparted to him1 he made colossal strides across that unknown tract1 the boundaries of which others are now but beginning to explore4 ,colonel ,le ,mat was no false prophet1 ,le ,figaro was no untrustworthy herald1 when the announcement was made by this ,french inventor to ,monsieur ,chevreul1 and by this ,french journal to the public on the #ast day of ,september1 #ahhh1 that the chain which holds the aerial ship to the earth would be broken asunder by ,keely's discovery4 ,the nineteenth century holds in its strong arms the pledge1 that sooner or later the aerial navy1 so long waited for1 will traverse the trackless high roads of space from ,continent to ,continent4 ,it has been supposed by many1 ,dr4 ,franz ,hartmann among the number1 that it requires ,keely himself1 or another person constituted like him1 to set his machinery in motion4 ,therefore1 it has been reasoned that the commercial success of an engine is only possible in case ,keely is himself the engineer2 or if another man possessing the same seemingly abnormal power could be the engineer4 ,for this reason1 says ,dr4 ,hartmann1 it is impossible for ,keely to instruct any one in his method1 so as to enable that one to do what he does4 ,there has been ground in the past for such a statement1 it is true1 but not now4 ,keely asserts that when his system is completed1 the knowledge of all that is needed for its commercial employment will be more easily acquired than is the necessary skill demanded to enable one to safely operate a steam-engine4 ,when ,dr4 ,hartmann's opinion was made known to ,keely1 he replied1 ,dr4 ,hartmann's whole conception1 in regard to other men being unable to control the operations of my inventions on the sympathetic attractive system1 is as incorrect as would be the same conception in reference to operating an electric battery by anyone but its inventor4 ,let anyone imagine the years on years of research that would have been necessary before ,gilbert 7who1 after ,thales1 discovered electricity7 could have perfected a system which would have enabled men to accomplish all that is accomplished in our age1 with electricity as a motive power4 ,keely's labours would be better understood by those who accuse him of always promising1 and never performing1 under such a conception4 ,the inventor must be sanguine of success2 he must day by day think that he is on the eve of perfecting his invention1 in order to keep up his courage to persevere to the end2 otherwise1 how could he work1 year after year1 in the face of obstacle after obstacle that seems1 each one1 to be insurmountable8 ,after ,keely's imprisonment when1 among the men who knew that he was incapable of fraud1 there was one so incensed by ,keely's repeated failures to perfect his engine that he had said he hoped to live to see ,keely rotting in a gutter1 ,mr4 ,r4 ,harte wrote3 ,and now that it has been proved in a hundred ways and before thousands of persons competent to judge of the merits of ,keely's claims1 that he has really discovered previously unknown forces in nature1 studied them1 mastered some of their laws1 invented and is perfecting researching apparatus that will make his discoveries of practical application in numerous ways--now that he has actually done this1 how does the world treat him8 ,does ,congress come forward with a grant to enable him to complete his marvellous work8 ,do men of science hail him as a great discoverer1 or hold out the hand of fellowship8 ,do people do honour to the man whose sole entreaty to them will be to receive from his hands a gift a thousand times more precious to them than steam engine or dynamo8 ,it is a literal fact that if ,keely fell exhausted to-day1 in the terrible struggle he has so long maintained1 his failure to establish his claims would be received with a shout of malignant delight from nearly every lecture-hall1 pulpit1 counting-house and newspaper office in the so-called civilized world4 ,the world has hardly ever recognized its benefactors until it has become time to raise a statue to their memory1 'in order to beautify the town4' ,jealousy1 stupidity1 the malignity which is born of conscious inferiority1 are at this moment putting in ,keely's road every impediment which law and injustice can manufacture4 ,two hundred years ago he would have been burned1 a century since he would have probably been mobbed to death2 but thank ,god we are too civilized1 too humane now to burn or mob to death those who make great discoveries1 who wish to benefit their fellow-men1 or whose ideas are in advance of their age--we only break their hearts with slander1 ridicule1 and neglect1 and when that fails to drive them to suicide1 we bring to bear upon them the ponderous pressure of the law1 and heap upon them the 'peine forte et dure' of injunctions1 and orders1 and suits1 to crush them out of a world they have had the impertinence to try to improve1 and the folly to imagine they could save from suffering1 without paying in their own persons the inevitable penalty4 ,had it not been for the obligations incurred by ,keely1 in accepting the aid of the ,keely ,motor ,company--in other words1 had scientists1 instead of speculators1 furnished him with the means necessary to carry on his work of evolution1 the secrets which he has so carefully guarded would now have been public property1 so little does he care personally for financial results4 ,as it is1 those who have witnessed his beautiful experiments in acoustics and sympathetic vibration were often too ignorant to comprehend their meaning1 and1 consequently1 even after expressing gratification to him1 went away from his workshop to denounce him as a ,cagliostro2 while others1 competent to judge1 have refused to witness the production of the ether1 as ,sir ,william ,thomson and ,lord ,raleigh refused1 when they were in ,america a few years since4 ,the company here mentioned has been a thorn in the inventor's side ever since it was organized4 ,it has been 'bulled and beared' by greedy speculators1 in whose varying interests the ,american newspapers for years have been worked1 the results of which the inventor has had to bear4 ,for many years the ,company has contributed nothing towards ,keely's expenses or support1 and in the opinion of many lawyers it is virtually dead4 ,how far it is entitled to his gratitude may be gathered from the fact1 as stated1 that 'when ,mr4 ,keely abandoned his old generator of etheric force1 baffled in his attempts to wrest from nature one of her most carefully guarded secrets1 harassed by his connection with the ,keely ,motor ,company1 some of the officers and stockholders of which had instituted law proceedings against him1 which threatened him with the indignity of imprisonment1 he destroyed many of his marvellous models1 and determined that1 if taken to prison1 it should be his dead body and not himself4 ,those who argue1 if ,keely had really obtained knowledge which contributes towards making man master of the material world1 that science would hail the glad tidings with great joy1 know but little of modern science and its votaries4 ,an ,anglican bishop never ignored a dissenting preacher with more dignified grace than the professor of orthodox science ignores the heterodox genius who has the audacity to wander beyond the limitations which 'received opinion' has placed upon the possibilities of nature4 ,the fact is that men of science have persistently ignored1 and know absolutely nothing about1 the great department of nature into which ,keely penetrated years ago1 and in which he has now made himself at home4 ,not long ago a ,fellow of the ,royal ,society of ,edinburgh1 ,major ,ricarde-,seaver1 went to ,philadelphia to convince himself as to the nature of ,keely's discovery4 ,he returned1 saying that ,keely was working with1 and had the apparent command over forces1 the nature1 or even the very existence1 of which was absolutely unknown to him1 and1 so far as he is aware1 to modern science4 ,beyond disintegration lies dispersion1 and ,keely can just as easily disperse the atoms of matter as disintegrate its molecules4 ,disperse them into what8 ,well1--into ether1 apparently2 into the hypothetical substratum which modern scientists have postulated1 and about whose nature they know absolutely nothing but what they invent themselves1 but which to ,keely is not hypothesis1 but a fact as real as his own shoes2 and which ether1 indeed1 seems to be 'the protoplasm of all things4' ,as to the 'law of gravity1' it appears in the light of ,keely's experiments1 but one manifestation of a law of very much wider application--a law which provides for the reversion of the process of attraction in the shape of a process of repulsion4 ,while ,major ,ricarde-,seaver1 ,f4,r4,s41 #f was in ,philadelphia1 ,keely1 by means of a belt and certain appliances which he wore upon his person1 moved single-handed1 a #ejj horse-power vibratory engine from one part of his shop to another4 ,there was not a scratch on the floor1 and astounded engineers declared that they could not have moved it without a derrick1 the operation of which would have required the removal of the roof of the shop4 ,of course it is but a step in advance of this to construct a machine which1 when polarized with a 'negative attraction1' will rise from the earth and move under the influence of an etheric current at the rate of #ejj miles an hour1 in any given direction4 ,this is1 in fact1 ,keely's 'air ship4' ,when the history of his discoveries and inventions come to be written there will be no more pathetic story in the annals of genius than that of ,john ,worrell ,keely4 ,the world hereafter will find it hard to believe that in the last quarter of the #aith century a man with an insight into the secret workings of nature1 and a knowledge of her subtler forces1 which1 whenever it is utilized1 will relieve mankind from much of the grinding toil that now makes bitter the existence of the vast majority1 that such a man should have been left unaided1 because in all the ranks of science there was not found one man capable of understanding his colossal work--because in all the ranks of religion there was not found one man able to realize the enlarged conception of ,deity immanent in ,keely's great thoughts--because in all the ranks of commerce1 of speculation1 of literature1 of art1 there was not found one man large enough1 generous enough1 unselfish enough1 to furnish money for a purpose that did not promise an immediate dividend4 ,again in #ahhh1 more than ever was ,keely held up to ridicule by all those men who possess the instinct of the brute to hound down its prey1 and his supporters came in for their share of abuse4 ,among this class1 or of it1 were men so ignorant of ,keely's claims1 and of the object of his researches1 that they represented him as a seeker of the impossible1 a perpetual motion crank1 throwing upon his character other odium which the speculating managers of ,the ,keely ,motor ,company were justly responsible for4 ,one of these communications alone is enough to show the quality of the weapons used against him4 ,it appeared in ,the ,new ,york ,daily ,tribune4 ,,the ,,keely ,,motor ,,craze4 ,a ,donkey-,cabbage ,race4 ,,how ,,much ,,longer ,,will ,,the ,,clever ,,juggler ,,be ,,able ,,to ,,delude ,,his ,,victims8 ,to the ,editor of ,the ,tribune4 ,sir1--,the success with which ,keely has deluded his victims by appealing to their credulity with a mystery1 and to their cupidity with a promise of all the kingdoms of the earth1 which would not be of greater value than the monopoly of infinite power without cost1 which he dangles before their astonished vision1 makes him and his antics subjects of unusual interest4 ,his last performance appears to be an issue of #e1jjj1jjj dols4 of new stock representing a new discovery veiled in mystery1 which is to far outstrip his former one1 on which #e1jjj1jjj dols4 of stock was issued and is now held by his dupes4 ,two of these new millions are to go to the old holders as a compensation to them for their disappointment in not realizing perpetual motion under the old discovery2 two more to go to ,keely to be sold to the public2 and the remaining one million is in the treasury to be sold for the benefit of ,keely and the others1 half and half4 ,for fifteen years the donkey has been ridden by ,keely with the cabbage on a pole held just in front of his hungry mouth1 and now the donkey is told that the cabbage after all is only sham1 but that the new cabbage is real1 and if he will only consent to run fast enough and far enough he certainly will reach it and grow fat4 ,it would seem that the donkey ought to pause and consider before he begins another fifteen-year race after perpetual motion1 and it is here proposed to assist him in his reflections by a few facts4 ,more than fifteen years ago ,keely made himself known to the public by exhibiting an apparatus in which a great pressure was manifested1 which1 he said1 resulted from the discovery by him of a new force the nature of which was his secret4 ,several people1 as usual1 were astonished at the show1 and bought and paid for shares in the patent which was promised4 ,to give colour to the pretence1 ,keely applied for a patent before #ahgf1 but did not assign to the purchasers their shares2 whereupon some of them protested against the issue of the patent unless their shares were recognized in the grant4 ,the ,patent ,office replied to these protests that it could not recognize the rights claimed unless there was a written assignment filed in the office1 which the claimants did not have4 ,the ,commissioner1 however1 called upon ,keely to furnish a working model of his invention1 which1 of course1 he could not do1 and his application was rejected4 ,the specification and drawings of this apparatus show a very silly form of the common perpetual motion machine1 of which there are thousands4 ,it was open to the public for some years1 when1 under a new rule of the office1 it1 along with all other rejected applications1 was withdrawn from inspection2 but it is in the office1 together with the protests of those who had paid ,keely for a share in it4 ,i examined it years ago1 and informed ,mr4 ,lamson1 and others of ,keely's stockholders1 of it4 ,mr4 ,lamson told me that he had charged ,keely with deception1 because he had always said that he never had applied for a patent1 and that ,keely explained it by saying that he had purposely concealed his invention from the ,patent ,office in that application to which he had made oath4 ,keely1 however1 finding the perpetual motion trick profitable1 extended his operations and became well known to many influential people by his exhibitions4 ,in the winter of #ahge-gf he produced two metallic spheres1 one about thirty inches in diameter1 hung like an ordinary terrestrial globe1 which1 he said1 would revolve with a force equal to two horse-power1 and would continue to run when once started as long as the ,centennial ,exhibition should be open1 and until the thing was worn out by friction4 ,in starting it ,keely used to have a blackboard in the room1 on which he would write a few figures in chalk in the presence of his dupes1 and would say that at a certain time the globe would start--and it did1 and would revolve as long as the lookers-on remained to see it4 ,keely pretended to explain this phenomenon by a string of unintelligible jargon2 but the point of it all was that he said the thing ran in consequence of its internal mechanical arrangement--or1 in other words1 that by combining pieces of metal in a certain way power was generated without any other expense than that required to construct the apparatus4 ,naturally he refused to show the interior construction which did the miracle2 but if his statements were true1 it existed inside of that globe1 and could be produced indefinitely with the result of producing an indefinite amount of horse-power without current expense4 ,the stock about this time rose to a great price--about #fjj per cent4--as it well might if this ball was an honest ghost4 ,some of the stockholders had sense enough to see that if ,keely's story were true1 nothing more could be desired1 for it must at once supersede coal and all other means of producing power1 and its novelty could not be doubted4 ,it was in effect1 all the kingdoms of the earth1 which ,satan once offered4 ,but1 on the other hand1 if ,keely's story were not true1 then he was simply an impostor who had been defrauding the stockholders out of their money2 and they demanded of ,keely that he should proceed at once to patent this miraculous machine1 which could create power by a peculiar-shaped hole in a sphere of iron4 ,of course ,keely refused to comply with this reasonable request1 and many of his stockholders sold out and left him2 since which time the stock has gradually declined down to the present time1 when its value is admitted to be nothing4 ,in view of these facts the curious question is why the donkey goes on any further4 ,the revolving ball is a fact known to hundreds of the stockholders4 ,it is either a real cabbage capable of feeding the donkey with a perpetual feast1 like the widow's cruse of oil1 or it is only a sham such as any good mechanic could construct and operate as ,keely did4 ,why doesn't the donkey balk and insist on biting into the cabbage8 ,if it is real the ,keely stock is worth untold millions4 ,it would put an end to steam engines and electric batteries for ever4 ,one of those balls in the corner of a room would make all the heat and light which could be used1 and have power to sell2 and all that would be needed would be to learn ,keely's cabalistic signs on the blackboard in order to make it start1 and to stop it when it had done enough4 ,but if the ball is only a trick1 then1 of course1 ,keely could be sent to prison1 and his victims could close their accounts and be sure that they would lose no more by him4 ,without going any further into the history of this remarkable delusion1 which is full of similar tricks too numerous to mention now1 it seems clear that these facts ought to be used to bring to an end in one way or the other the ,keely craze4 ,edward ,n4 ,dickerson4 ,new ,york1 ,nov4 #cj1 #ahhh4 ,it is difficult to understand how anyone could concoct and put together such a tissue of fabrications as this1 when the sole foundation for such a tissue lay in the fact that it was at this juncture that ,keely made the announcement that he had proved the uselessness of building engines to employ the ether as a motive power2 which could only be used as the medium for the power which he had discovered1 namely1 a condition of sympathetic vibration1 associated both positively and negatively with the polar stream4 ,the statement made of the issue of new stock is absolutely untrue4 ,the revolving globe was never created to be the source of power1 and the representation of the manner in which the globe was made to revolve1 and that ,keely affirmed he could produce with it an indefinite amount of horse power without current expense1 is denied4 ,the suggestion that ,keely could be sent to prison was welcomed by those who eventually acted upon it1 with the result that ,judge ,finletter committed ,keely to ,moyamensing ,prison1 for contempt of court1 but not for fraud4 ,mr4 ,keely1 at that time1 wrote of those who called him a perpetual motion seeker3--,i console myself by thinking that if they were not ignorant of the grand truths which ,i am devoting my life to develop into a system1 they could never bring forward such an absurd charge4 ,perpetual motion is against nature1 and it is only by following nature's laws that ,i can ever hope to reach the goal ,i am aiming to reach4 ,the ,supreme ,court reversed and set aside the order of the court committing ,keely for contempt1 and released him from custody1 upon the writ of habeas corpus taken out on his behalf1 within three days of his commitment4 ,the ,chief ,justice1 in delivering his opinion1 made some remarks which fully vindicated ,mr4 ,keely's character4 ,after alluding to the proper procedure which ought to have been taken in the court below1 the ,judge continued3-- ,instead of so proceeding1 a commission of experts was appointed to examine the defendant's machine1 and the order of ,april #gth was made1 by which the defendant1 in advance of any issue1 was not only required to exhibit his machine1 but also to operate it and explain the mode of its construction and operation1 although it clearly appeared that it would require considerable expense to clean the machine1 put it together and operate it4 ,the defendant appears to have been willing to exhibit it1 and in point of fact did so4 ,that he might have been compelled to do so at a proper stage of the case is conceded4 ,but to make an order not only to exhibit it1 but to operate it1 the practical effect of which was to wring from him his defence in advance of any issue joined1 was an improvident and excessive exercise of ,chancery powers4 ,we are of opinion that the order was improvidently made4 ,it follows that the learned court had no power to enforce it by attachment4 ,the relator is discharged4 ,it was in this year1 #ahhh1 that a woman1 interested in all branches of science1 who had proved to her own satisfaction the value to humanity1 as well as to science1 of ,keely's discoveries1 was deprived of legal and maternal rights on account of the delusions that she was very generally believed to be under4 ,a journalist1 wishing to obtain information concerning ,keely's work1 called upon this woman1 by appointment1 and at the close of the interview said1-- ,may ,i venture to ask you if it is true that you have furnished ,mr4 ,keely with large sums of money as rumour declares2 and that you have invested largely in the stock8 ,were ,i not glad of the opportunity to answer this question in justice to ,mr4 ,keely1 ,i might have said that this is a subject which is of no interest to the public2 but ,i have heard the amount estimated as nearly #ajj1jjjl4 too often not to be willing to have the truth made known4 ,what ,i have given to ,mr4 ,keely has been saved by economies in my expenses2 and1 if not given to him1 would have been given to others2 as ,i believe in those who have the most doing all that lies in their power for those who have less4 ,in regard to investments in ,keely ,motor stock1 ,i have bought no stock excepting to give away4 ,there is one other question ,i should like to ask you1 said our representative1 ,is ,mr4 ,keely a spiritualist8 ,i use the word in its ordinary sense4 ,does he claim that he has bridged the gulf between the finite and the infinite8 ,when ,mr4 ,keely first commenced his wonderful investigations he would have scouted the idea of being in any way whatever associated with so-called spiritualism1 but of recent years1 and especially during the last few months1 he has made such startling progress that he now admits--as ,i told him a long time ago he would come to admit--that if not in actual experiment1 at least in theory he has passed into the world of spirit4 ,the interview being ended1 our representative took his departure1 after expressing his thanks for the information so willingly given4 ,how far this lady's anticipations of the inventor's success will be realized1 or how far her confidence in his integrity is justified1 we must leave our readers to judge for themselves4 ,the whole subject is enveloped in much mystery1 but it is full of interest1 and if half that is narrated of ,mr4 ,keely be true1 he is indeed a wonderful man6--,the ,tatler4 ,,chapter ,,ix4 #ahhi-ahij4 ,,keely ,,supported ,,by ,,distinguished ,,men ,,of ,,science4 ,,aerial ,,navigation4 ,is not ether infinitely more rare and more subtle than air1 and exceedingly more elastic and more active8 ,does it not easily penetrate all bodies8 ,and is it not by its elastic force diffused through the universe8--,sir ,isaac ,newton4 ,in #ahhi a series of short articles were written1 which1 for the first time1 made known to the public that ,keely had theories which he was able to sustain by mechanical demonstration3 and once more an attempt was made to have men of science acquaint themselves with the theories1 and witness the demonstrations4 ,capitalists also were appealed to1 to convince themselves of the existence of an unknown force1 and of ,mr4 ,keely's honesty in his efforts to control it for commercial purposes2 money being required to enable him to complete his researches for science1 and to protect him from those who were harassing him in such a way as to impede his progress at every step4 ,the appeal to capitalists might as well have been made to stone walls2 but among the men of scientific and philosophical attainments who were invited1 the late ,professor ,joseph ,leidy1 ,m4,d41 of the ,pennsylvania ,university1 and ,james ,m4 ,willcox1 ,ph4,d41 author of ,rational ,philosophy1 and other works1 accepted the invitation and attended a series of ,keely's researching experiments4 ,for years ,mr4 ,keely's experiments were confined to the production of the force2 the raising of a lever2 the firing of a cannon2 and the showing of a vacuum greater than had ever been produced4 ,since #ahhh he has pursued his researches on a line which enabled him to show uninterrupted progress year after year3 so that now he never repeats his experiments2 but1 discarding or improving his researching instruments1 after he has gained the results which his theories lead him to expect1 he continues his investigations1 thereafter1 from the solid basis which he has attained by those researches4 ,the result of the attention given by ,professor ,leidy and ,dr4 ,willcox is best set down in their own words3-- ,april #hth1 #ahij4 ,after having had the opportunity of witnessing a series of experiments made by ,mr4 ,john ,keely1 illustrative of a reputed new motor power1 it has appeared to me that he has fairly demonstrated the discovery of a force previously unknown to science4 ,i have no theory to account for the phenomena observed1 but ,i believe ,mr4 ,keely to be honest in his attempt to explain them4 ,his demonstrations appear to indicate great mechanical power1 which1 when applied to appropriate machinery1 must supersede all ordinary appliances4 ,joseph ,leidy4 ,philadelphia1 ,april #hth1 #ahij4 ,after having witnessed1 on several occasions and under favourable circumstances1 ,mr4 ,keely's experiments in what he terms sympathetic vibration1 ,i am satisfied that he has made new and important demonstrations in physical science4 ,he has made manifest the existence of natural forces that cannot be explained by any known physical laws1 and has shown that he possesses over them a very considerable control4 ,james ,m4 ,willcox4 ,shortly after these announcements were made public1 with the consent of the writers1 ,anglo-,austria contained two papers on the subject1 from which1 principally1 the article on ,etheric ,philosophy is taken4 ,s4 ,zolver ,preston1 in his ,physics of the ,ether1 says3 ,a quantity of matter representing a total mass of only one grain1 and possessing the normal velocity of the ether particles1 that of a wave of light1 encloses a state of energy represented by upward of one thousand millions of foot tons4 ,or the mass of one single grain contains an energy not less than that possessed by a mass of #gj1jjj tons1 moving at the speed of a cannon ball 7#abjj feet per second72 or1 otherwise1 a quantity of matter1 representing a mass of one grain1 endued with the velocity of the ether particles1 encloses an amount of energy which1 if entirely utilized1 would be competent to project a weight of #ajj tons to a height of one mile and nine-tenths of a mile4 ,etheric philosophy has a scientific basis in fact2 and in the light of ,keely's progressive demonstrations1 his views are no longer abnormal to the scientific mind which is willing to admit the possibility of a discovery in which it has had no part4 ,to discover an unknown power is one thing2 to subjugate it is quite another thing4 ,the one may be stumbled over2 the other can only be attained after laborious investigation4 ,no one who has followed ,keely in his dead work1 during the last ten years1 can doubt that he has been1 and still is1 dealing with the same force which1 as ,professor ,hertz has disclosed to us1 is already imprisoned1 without our knowledge1 in electro-magnetic engines4 ,if thus1 unknowingly1 it has been made the servant of man1 in machinery not especially constructed for its use1 may it not also have been imprisoned by one who is adapting his inventions to its special requirements8 ,keely demonstrates1 with what he calls vibratory machinery1 that all corpuscules of matter may be subdivided by a certain order of vibration1 thus showing up new elements2 and having demonstrated what he asserts1 by releasing the various orders of ether from the suspension in which it is always held in our atmosphere1 he has answered the sceptical demand ,give us some bread4 ,it has been said that as men penetrate deeper and deeper into a knowledge of the wonderful laws which govern the universe they may find mysterious forces which remain still undiscovered4 ,keely's discoveries promise to burst upon the world of science as the one mighty and complete revelation of the universe4 ,there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in the materialistic science of our age1 or in our philosophy4 ,all we have cognizance of around us are results1 the causes of which are supersensuous4 ,of the nature which we behold around us1 the cause is supernatural4 ,the ,reverend ,albert ,h4 ,plumb1 of ,roxbury1 ,mass41 who has followed ,mr4 ,keely's efforts1 to obtain control of the unknown force which he discovered more than twenty years ago1 up to his present successful demonstration before scientists1 says3 ,neither theological science nor any department of physical science1 as it lies in the divine mind1 is exactly expressed in any human system2 yet no knowledge is to be decried nor despised1 least of all in the highest realms of thought4 ,the agnostic makes the mistake of confounding exhaustive knowledge with positive knowledge in declaring both unattainable4 ,we can know positively that a thing is1 if not how or why it is4 ,as ,gladstone says1 ',our hands can lay hold of truths which our arms cannot embrace4 ,we can apprehend what we cannot comprehend4' ,if ,keely should die1 ,i fear no one could understand his writings4 ,every day we read of distinguished men dying4 ,the other day a man carried with him into the grave his secret for the cheap production of aluminium4 ,no one man entrusted by ,providence with high interests has a right to allow a possibility of their sinking back1 perhaps for ages1 into the void of the unknown4 ,why not confine attention strictly to making the discovery practically intelligible to others1 and thus securing to mankind the first steps by which the new force is evoked and controlled1 and leave to later leisure the subtler relations of this power to the divine mind and to life8 ,for years ,mr4 ,keely did confine attention to efforts to prove his discovery by practical methods1 without making any advance2 and it was not until he was led into the spiritual or philosophical bearings of his discovery that he himself gained practically intelligible ideas of its nature4 ,to ,dr4 ,macvicar's ,sketch of a ,philosophy1 from which ,mrs4 ,moore compiled ,ether the ,true ,protoplasm1 and to ,mrs4 ,hughes' book on the evolution of tones and colours1 ,mr4 ,keely is indebted for the pregnant germs which1 falling from their writings upon his mind1 took him from the line of experiment which he was pursuing1 into the only line of research which can lead to scientific and commercial success4 ,the hour in which he reaches one he reaches both2 nor can one be gained without the other being gained4 ,this should teach us that1 though the heart of man deviseth his way1 the ,lord directeth his steps4 ,god never hurries1 and ,he chooses ,his own instruments1 employing them after a manner that is inscrutable to us1 in our weak impatience for results4 ,admitting the truth of all that ,dr4 ,plumb has said1 but understanding fully the impossibility of directing ,mr4 ,keely's steps1 until he himself gains more control of the force that he has discovered1 we must wait upon the ,lord1 who is revealing to him the deep mysteries of ,creation4 ,in the meantime1 those in whom narrowness of mind has not caused stubbornness will hold themselves in readiness to prove all things and hold fast to the truth4 ,we do not easily believe what is beyond our own knowledge1 but faith in the claims of ,keely as a discoverer1 if not as an inventor1 is steadily increasing4 ,the following from a foreign publication about the ,keely ,motor will be of interest to all who have watched the progress of that enterprise4 ,the correspondent writes3--,in the following brief article ,i purpose placing the latest aspect of ,mr4 ,keely1 perhaps the best abused man in ,america1 and his investigations before the readers of ,anglo-,austria2 continuing1-- ,under the heading of ',the ,keely ,motor ,again1' ,invention1 of ,london1 on ,october #aith1 printed a communication1 mentioning the leading scientist of ,america1 ,dr4 ,leidy1 of the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 as supporting ,mr4 ,keely's claims as a discoverer of an unknown force1 as follows3--,dr4 ,leidy having expressed the wish that ,professor ,barker should again visit ,mr4 ,keely and witness the experiments which had convinced himself that ,keely had discovered a new force1 has received the following letter3-- #iji1 ,walnut ,street1 ,philadelphia1 ,october #d1 #ahhi4 ,dr4 ,leidy4 ,sir1--,referring to our conversation of a few days since1 and the suggestion of another visit to the workshop of ,mr4 ,keely1 by ,professor ,barker1 ,i would say that ,i have presented the matter to ,mr4 ,keely and he acquiesces in what ,i stated to you4 ,that is to say1 if ,dr4 ,barker desires to visit ,mr4 ,keely's workshops again1 and will make this known to him in writing or through yourself1 for the purpose of further observation and of having confirmed or removed from his mind1 as the case may be1 the conclusions or impressions arrived at by him1 and published in the columns of the ,ledger1 of this city1 in #ahgh2 and on condition that he will1 if his further observations satisfy him that he did injustice to ,mr4 ,keely1 forthwith publish that fact through the same channel1 the ,ledger3 he being1 of course1 at full liberty to confirm by further publication his previous condemnation1 if satisfied with the correctness of that conclusion2 then ,dr4 ,barker will be cordially received by ,mr4 ,keely1 and a series of experiments will be conducted for him at an early day1 say1 ,saturday1 #ab inst4 ,and in the event of the engagement being made1 ,i shall request the pleasure of your presence1 and that of ,dr4 ,mc,cook4 ,i leave the matter in your hands for such action as you in your wise discretion may think proper to take4 ,very truly yours1 ,charles ,b4 ,collier4 ,nothing could be fairer than ,mr4 ,keely's proposal1 and the result of ,professor ,barker's visit will be watched for with the keenest interest by all scientists on both sides of the ,atlantic4 #g ,professor ,barker1 after due consideration1 concluded not to accept the invitation1 and declined it on ,october #aath1 suggesting ,professor ,goodspeed1 his associate in physics1 as one who would probably be disposed to witness the series of experiments about to be given2 showing the neutralizing or overcoming of gravity and the separation of metallic plates by vibration4 ,after the date upon which these latter experiments were to have been made1 and which ,i may mention1 en passant1 had been repeatedly made in the laboratory of ,mr4 ,keely1 this cablegram was sent from ,london to ,philadelphia3-- ',ask ,dr4 ,leidy's permission to announce here his conviction that ,keely has discovered a new force4' ,the answer was returned as follows3-- ,having had the opportunity of seeing ,mr4 ,john ,keely's experiments1 it has appeared to me that he has command of some unknown force of most wonderful mechanical power4 ,joseph ,leidy4 ,invention1 in commenting upon the communication1 says3 ,we wish to make it quite clear that we do not identify ourselves with any of the opinions which are expressed in this communication4 ,it is certainly desirable that the motor should be thoroughly tested1 and particularly that all the secrecy1 which has hitherto been practised in connection with it1 should be abandoned4 ,there can be no reason why this invention1 if invention it be1 should not be published to the world as long as it is fully protected by patents4 ,we agree1 however1 so far1 that ,professor ,barker's report1 if his visit be paid1 will be of considerable interest4 ,these remarks of our ,english contemporary are based upon quite wrong premises4 ,the motor cannot be tested nor patented until it is completed4 ,mr4 ,keely's work is one of experimental research4 ,his machine for the production and liberation of the power is in daily operation4 ,he has made many failures in constructing his commercial engine1 but each failure has brought him nearer to perfection4 ,when he has succeeded in building an engine in which he can regulate the speed1 control reversions and govern its operations1 as completely as the steam engine is now governed1 then he will be ready to test its action publicly1 take out patents for the same1 and make known to the world the nature of his discovery4 ,up to the present time ,mr4 ,keely's inventions have been principally devices1 enabling him to experiment with the force which he has discovered and to obtain control over it4 ,for years he was impeded by the frequency of the explosions which took place1 breaking his ribs1 paralyzing his left side for six weeks at one time1 and frequently bursting iron tubes as if they were pipe stems4 ,little by little he learned the laws which governed the unknown force1 and now he never has an explosion4 ,mr4 ,keely has not preserved any secrecy with regard to his experiments1 but on the contrary he has lost much time in exhibiting the production of this force to those who desire to see it4 ,for instance1 some years ago he stopped his work on the graduating of his engine to take his liberator to pieces1 in order to show its interior construction to ,sir ,william ,thompson and ,lord ,raleigh3 these gentlemen1 misled by ,professor ,barker's assertion1 that ,keely was deceiving his dupes with compressed air1 refused to witness his experiments4 ,this was in #ahhd4 ,there is no secrecy to be abandoned1 therefore4 ,the question to be settled was not one of secrecy1 but whether ,mr4 ,keely should continue his experimental research1 unimpeded by exhibitions1 until he should succeed in perfecting a commercial engine2 or whether he should first convince scientists that he is not a modern ,cagliostro as he has been called1 and that he is a discoverer of an unknown force4 ,the ground taken by those who urged the latter course was that the interests of the ,keely ,motor ,company would thus be better served2 reasoning that1 when scientists have been convinced that ,mr4 ,keely's researches are in a field comparatively unknown to them1 the cries of execration would be drowned in the applause which would resound throughout the world as the result of his stupendous labours became better known4 ,for this end several scientists were invited to witness the present stage of experiment1 which ,mr4 ,keely had reached in his efforts to provide his provisional engine with a governor1 and ,dr4 ,leidy was one of the number who1 after witnessing the experiments on ,may #bhth1 #ahhi1 confessed himself convinced that ,keely was dealing with some unknown force4 ,when we call to mind ,watt's persevering efforts during thirty years1 before he succeeded in his attempt to invent a governor for the steam engine1 we can afford to be more patient with ,mr4 ,keely than we have been4 ,taking into consideration the marvellous advance which ,mr4 ,keely has made in the past five years in perfecting his liberator1 we should not be surprised to hear at any moment that he has also perfected his commercial engine1 the so-called ,keely ,motor1 thus overcoming his sole remaining obstacle to financial success4 ,those who talk of testing the motor1 or of patenting it in its present condition1 are not aware of the exertions which have been made by ,mr4 ,keely to bring the motor to its present stage of development2 nor that1 although the motor now seems to be approaching perfection1 the work of evolution will not be completed until it is in a patentable form4 ,in #agei ,james ,watt made his first model of a steam carriage4 ,in #aghd he took out a patent4 ,in #ahjc the first engine was built1 but it was not until #ahbd that the experiment of running a locomotive from ,liverpool to ,stockport was made4 ,until ,mr4 ,keely's commercial engine is perfected and patented1 now that scientists are beginning to support him as the discoverer of an unknown force1 ridicule should give way to sympathy2 for we know that nature never reveals one of her tyrant forces without at the same time showing how this force is to be transformed into the slave of man1 and that complete success is only a question of time4--,anglo-,austria1 ,march1 #ahij4 ,,some ,,recent ,,experiments4 #h ,copy of a ,letter addressed to ,professor ,dewar of the ,royal ,institution of ,great ,britain4 ,dear ,professor ,dewar1--,as ,i have already informed you1 ,i carried out your wishes in reference to ,professor ,rowland of the ,john ,hopkins ,university1 as far as extending to him an invitation to witness some of ,mr4 ,keely's experiments in sympathetic vibration was concerned4 ,professor ,rowland was not able to witness any demonstration whatever1 on account of an accident which happened to the disintegrator1 and he could not fail to have formed an unfavourable opinion of ,mr4 ,keely from all that transpired on that occasion4 ,i next renewed the invitation to ,professor ,barker1 which had already been extended to him by ,professor ,leidy1 both of these gentlemen being ,professors in the ,pennsylvania ,university4 ,professor ,barker was not able to be present4 ,the series of experiments which have been given for scientists1 mechanical engineers1 and others since my return1 closed on the #abth4 ,the steady progress from week to week1 since the accident to the disintegrator was repaired1 has given beautiful evidence of the wisdom of the plan adopted by ,mr4 ,keely in the winter of #ahhh-hi1 which led him to turn his attention to a class of experiments of quite a different nature from those which1 up to that time1 had been made for commercial ends2 experiments which have not failed to convince all who attended the entire series that ,mr4 ,keely is dealing with an unknown force1 the laws governing which he is still in partial ignorance concerning4 ,he admits now that he cannot construct a patentable engine to use this force till he has mastered the principle2 and a fund1 with the approval of scientists1 has been appropriated for this end1 upon the condition that he will waste no more time upon what is known as the ,keely ,motor ,engine until he has demonstrated his ability to control reversions and in all points to govern the revolutions4 ,his last engine was built to exhibit the practical nature of his discovery to capitalists1 the managers of ,the ,keely ,motor ,company--which company died a natural death years since--hoping thereby to raise the price of its stock1 and in this way to furnish ,mr4 ,keely with the funds that he needed4 ,but the exhibition of this engine was premature and did not succeed4 ,there will be no further need for such exhibitions in future1 for it is1 as it always has been1 in the interest of stock-holders that the stock should not rise until the system is completed1 when it will rise to remain raised4 ,from this time the interests of stock-holders will not be sacrificed to the interest of stock-jobbers4 ,the experiments conducted on ,saturday last surpassed preceding ones in the purity of the demonstrations1 the instruments being in better condition4 ,in demonstrating what seems to be the overcoming of gravity for aerial navigation1 ,mr4 ,keely used a model of an air-ship1 weighing about eight pounds1 which1 when the differentiated wire of silver and platinum was attached to it1 communicating with the sympathetic transmitter1 rose1 descended1 or remained stationary midway1 the motion as gentle as that of thistledown floating in the air4 ,the experiment illustrating chord of mass sympathy was repeated1 using a glass chamber1 forty inches in height1 filled with water1 standing on a slab of glass4 ,three metal spheres1 weighing about six ounces each1 rested on the glass floor of the chamber4 ,the chord of mass of these spheres was ,b flat first octave1 ,e flat second octave1 and ,b flat third octave4 ,upon sounding the note ,b flat on the sympathetic transmitter1 the sphere having that chord of mass rose slowly to the top of the chamber2 the positive end of the wire having been attached1 which connected the covered jar with the transmitter4 ,the same result followed the sound of the note in sympathy with the chord of mass of the other spheres1 all of which descended as gently as they rose1 upon changing the positive to the negative4 ,j4 ,m4 ,willcox1 ,ph4,d41 who was present1 remarked1--,this experiment proves the truth of a fundamental law in scholastic philosophy1 viz41 that when one body attracts or seeks another body1 it is not that the effect is the sum of effects produced by parts of one body upon parts of another1 one aggregate of effects1 but the result of the operation of one whole upon another whole4 ,the experiments on the #abth closed with the disintegration of water1 twelve drops of which we saw dropped1 drop by drop1 into the small sphere attached to the disintegrator after exhausting the air by suction4 ,a pressure of over #bj1jjj pounds to the square inch was shown to the satisfaction of all present1 and when ,mr4 ,willcox accepted ,mr4 ,keely's invitation to take a seat on the arm of the lever1 adding his #bfj pounds to the weight1 applause broke forth4 ,mr4 ,keely showed control of the ether1 inter-atomic subdivision1 by graduating the escape of the residue1 as he allowed it to discharge itself with a noise like the rushing of steam to an expulsion as gentle as the breathings of an infant4 ,the three subdivisions acted simultaneously1 showing instantaneous association and disassociation4 ,the sympathetic globe was operated upon1 #abj revolutions a second1 ceasing the instant that the wire was detached4 ,i regret to say that ,professor ,ira ,remsen was prevented1 ,i fear by ,professor ,rowland1 from witnessing any one of this series of experiments as he intended doing2 nor have ,i been able to get the opinion of any physicist in whom ,i felt any confidence2 but ,mr4 ,keely is satisfied to have the support of such men as ,j4 ,m4 ,willcox1 ,ph4,d41 and ,professor ,leidy1 ,,ll4,d4 ,dr4 ,leidy was awarded the ,lyell ,medal in #ahhd1 when in ,london1 and the ,cuvier ,prize in #ahhh1 from the ,academy of ,sciences in ,france4 ,he is known in ,america not only as possessing the broadest of minds and the gentlest of natures1 but as holding in his heart that love for1 and reverence of1 truth and justice which alone can confer the power of forming a correct and a just judgment4 ,i would like to have you make known in ,england that ,mr4 ,keely is indebted to ,macvicar's ,sketch of a ,philosophy for turning his attention1 in #ahhd1 to researches on the structure of ether1 and to ,mrs4 ,f4 ,j4 ,hughes 7not ,mrs4 ,watts ,hughes71 for the suggestions in her work on ,harmonies of ,tones and ,colours ,developed by ,evolution1 which led him into the line of experiment that will enable him to show on a disc the various colours of sound1 each note having its colour1 and to demonstrate in various ways ,mrs4 ,hughes' own words that the same laws which develop musical harmonies develop the universe1 etc41 etc4 ,on the #ajth of ,june1 #ahij1 the ,rev4 ,john ,andrew1 of ,belfast1 whose pendulographs illustrate the ratios which rule in the domain of atmospheric vibrations1 in which audible music has been located by the great numberer1 wrote3 ,i think that now1 at last1 ,keely's labours are about to be honourably recognized by the world of science4 ,may he live to rejoice in his triumphs4 ,mr4 ,andrew1 who was the friend of the late ,dr4 ,macvicar1 was instrumental in bringing ,a ,sketch of a ,philosophy to ,mrs4 ,moore's notice1 and has maintained great interest in ,keely's researches since he first heard of them4 ,miss ,mary ,green1 a governess in the family of ,lord ,wimborne1 was another instrument used to make known to ,keely the important nature of the energy he had liberated from the suspension in which it is always held in our atmosphere4 ,about this time ,professor ,james ,dewar1 who had been following ,keely's claims as a discoverer since #ahhd1 wrote3 ,if ,mr4 ,keely succeeds in making his discovery practically useful1 as it is said that he is demonstrating to scientists his ability to do--if this information be true1 it is strange to contrast the past history of science with the present4 ,fancy the discoverer of electricity having succeeded in inventing the modern dynamo machine6 ,such a fact would mean the concentration of hundreds of years of scientific discovery and invention into the single life of one man4 ,such a result would be simply marvellous4 ,at this time a number of the leading journals in various parts of the ,united ,states announced that1 although ,keely's methods and his failures had combined to engender distrust and arouse ridicule1 it could no longer be denied that he had discovered what no other man has discovered4 ,still penny-a-liners continued to employ those weapons of small souls and narrow minds1 sneers and ridicule and calumny1 which ,lavater's allegorical vignette so well depicts3 ,a hand holding a lighted torch is stung by a wasp1 and the gnats that swarm around it are consumed in its flame4 ,underneath are these lines3-- ,and although it singes the wings of the gnats1 ,destroys their heads and all their little brains1 ,light is still light2 ,and although ,i am stung by the angriest wasp1 ,i will not yield4 ,every defender of the truth1 at whom shafts of ridicule are levelled1 should recall these words4 ,never1 for one moment1 has ,keely turned aside from his work to answer his assailants4 ,it is not to be wondered at that the magical nature of his demonstrations1 more inexplicable than any feats of legerdemain1 should have brought upon him the suspicion of fraudulent representation1 concerning the production of the force and its manipulation2 but his persistency alone in seeking to unravel the mysteries of nature1 ought to have brought around him sooner men who1 like the revered and great ,leidy1 were able to appreciate his researches in sympathetic vibration1 the laws of which govern everything in creation1 from the movements of the planets1 down to the movements of atoms4 ,from the time in which it was made known to ,keely that the same principle underlies harmonies and the motion of heavenly bodies1 as announced by ,pythagoras1 his grasping intellect conceived the idea that planetary bodies have a nerve-system1 subject to conditions which govern it and keep it under control1 just as our human mechanism is controlled by the law which governs its operation4 ,in ,keely's theories all is mechanical in nature4 ,a molecule of steel1 a molecule of gas1 a molecule of brain matter are all of the one primeval substance--the ,ether4 ,,aerial ,,navigation4 ,the instrument devised by ,mr4 ,keely for bringing the air-ship under control in its ascent and descent1 consists of a row of bars1 like the keys of a piano1 representing the enharmonic and the diatonic conditions4 ,these bars range from #j to #ajj4 ,at #ej ,mr4 ,keely thinks the progress of the vessel ought to be about #ejj miles an hour4 ,at #ajj gravity resumes its control4 ,if pushed to that speed it would descend like a rifle-ball to the earth4 ,there is no force known so safe to use as the polar flow if1 as ,mr4 ,keely thinks1 that1 when the conditions are once set up1 they remain for ever1 with perpetual molecular action as the result1 until the machinery wears out4 ,in the event of meeting a cyclone1 the course of the vessel1 he teaches1 can be guided so as to ascend above the cyclone by simply dampening a certain proportion of these vibratory bars4 ,the instrument for guiding the ship has nothing to do with the propelling of it1 which is a distinct feature of itself1 acting by molecular bombardment2 moving the molecules in the same order as in the suspension process1 but transversely4 ,after the molecular mass of the vessel is sensitized1 or made concordant with the celestial and terrestrial streams1 the control of it in all particulars is easy and simple4 ,in ascending the positive force is used1 or the celestial1 as ,keely has named it1 and in descending the negative or terrestrial4 ,passing through a cyclone the air-ship would not be affected by it4 ,the breaking up of cyclones will open a field for future research1 if any way can be discovered for obtaining the chord of mass of the cyclone4 ,to differentiate the chord of its thirds would destroy it2 but to those who know nothing of the underlying principle1 on which ,keely has based his system1 all such assertions are the merest rubbish4 ,for a few months following the announcement of ,professor ,leidy's and ,dr4 ,willcox's opinions1 ,mr4 ,keely continued his researches under favourable circumstances2 but1 in the autumn of #ahij1 he was again threatened with suits-at-law and harassed by demands to give exhibitions in order to raise the price of stock4 ,a subscription was started to raise funds for the prosecution4 ,these threats made it necessary to make public the history of ,keely's connection with an organization which was supposed by many to have been formed for speculative purposes1 before the stock of the company possessed any value other than prospective2 but to which company1 notwithstanding1 the world is indebted for supplying ,mr4 ,keely with the means to continue his work1 at a time when it was impossible for him to gain the recognition of science or the aid of capitalists4 ,the discovery would in all probability have been lost1 but for the help which this organization gave1 at a time when ,keely needed help2 he had made a discovery1 and these shrewd business men1 totally ignorant of physics1 knew enough to comprehend its financial importance4 ,never doubting that ,keely would be able to master the difficulties at once1 in the way of its subjugation1 and not realizing the width of the gulf that lies between discovery and invention1 they expected him to leap it with one bound2 and when he failed to do so they threw upon him all the odium which befell the enterprise4 ,keely1 who had twice destroyed his researching instruments1 when harassed and threatened by the managers of the company1 first in #ahhb1 and again in #ahhg1 was now placed by their threatened proceedings in a position where he had to choose between continuing his researches with the end in view of completing his system2 or diverting his course and resuming his efforts to perfect an engine1 to continue exhibitions for the purpose of raising the stock of the company4 ,at this juncture an attempt was made to have circulated among the stock-holders a narrative setting forth facts to show that their interests would be better served by a continuance of the researches that had led to the results attained within the last two years2 and which were of so important a character as to justify ,keely in saying that he had learned more of the law1 governing the operation of the force he was dealing with1 in that time1 than in the many preceding years during which he had been scarcely doing more than liberating the ether4 ,the effort to have the narrative circulated failed2 and1 as a last resort1 the history of the company was made public in a pamphlet1 entitled ,the ,keely ,motor ,bubble2 which contained the ,minority ,report of ,mr4 ,john ,lorimer1 made1 in #ahha1 when he was a member of the ,board of ,directors of the now defunct ,keely ,motor ,company2 giving a masterly analysis of the situation at that time4 ,mr4 ,lorimer's faith in1 and loyalty to1 ,mr4 ,keely1 has never been questioned4 ,he is probably the best and most disinterested adviser that ,mr4 ,keely has ever had2 among those who are interested solely in the commercial aspect of the discovery4 ,,chapter ,x4 #ahha-ahia4 ,,the ,,keely ,,motor ,,bubble4 ,,macvicar',s ,,logical ,,analysis4 ,for it is well known that bodies act upon one another by the attraction of gravity1 magnetism1 and electricity2 and these instances show the tenour and course of ,nature and make it not improbable that there may be more attractive powers than these4 ,for ,nature is very consonant and comfortable to herself4--,sir ,isaac ,newton4 ,the ,scotch author1 ,macvicar1 from whose ,sketch of a ,philosophy has been compiled ,ether the ,true ,protoplasm1 published this year in the ,new ,york ,home ,journal1 says in his ,enquiry into ,human ,nature1 written in #aheb1 ,modern science is certainly on the way to the discovery that1 so far as is cognizable by us1 throughout the whole universe the same laws are at work and regulate all things4 ,the mcanique cleste of mind is still waiting its ,newton to disclose them to us4 ,looking upon the discoverer of etheric force as the ,newton1 whose coming was forecast by ,macvicar1 it is satisfactory to see that ,keely1 in his field of research1 eventually adopted the methods which his forerunner advocated nearly forty years ago2 but not until after many years of blind grappling with the mechanical difficulties which he encountered1 in his efforts to control the unknown ,genii1 which he himself declares that he stumbled upon in quite another field of research4 ,keely was experimenting in #ahge on what he called a hydro-pneumatic-pulsating-vacuo engine1 when1 accidentally1 the first evolution of disintegration was made4 ,the focalization of this quadruple force1 acting on one general centre of concentration1 produced partial molecular subdivision1 resulting in a pressure of some three thousand pounds per square inch4 ,mr4 ,keely was himself amazed at this evidence of the energy which he had evoked1 and at once turned his attention to researching its nature1 with the result that he came to the conclusion that he had partially resolved the gaseous element of water by crude molecular dissociation4 ,this was his first step1 and the necessary introductory one1 towards the elimination of ether2 but at that time1 to use his own words1 he had not the remotest idea of the etheric element proper4 ,since then he has constructed innumerable machines to subdivide or dissociate the molecular2 but it was not until he had instituted certain acoustic vibratory conditions that he began to realize the magnitude of the element that he is now controlling with his vibratory disintegrator4 ,yet1 even this instrument was only the stepping-stone towards polar-sympathetic-negative-attraction4 ,in #ahgh ,mr4 ,keely conceived and constructed an instrument which he called a vibratory lift1 and1 while experimenting on the improvised multiplication by this medium1 he had occasion to put a piece of marble1 weighing twenty-six pounds1 on a steel bar to hold it in place1 when then and there his first discovery of the disintegration of mineral substance took place4 ,from that time progressive research of the most arduous nature has brought him to his present standard in vibratory physics4 ,in the winter of #ahha-hb1 when threatened with imprisonment by the managers of the ,keely ,motor ,company for not disclosing his secret to them1 which then would have been like pricking a bubble1 he destroyed his vibratory lift and other instruments that he had been years in perfecting4 ,at this time so hopeless was ,keely1 that his plans were made to destroy himself1 after destroying his devices4 ,at this critical juncture he received unexpected aid4 ,again1 in #ahhh1 before he was taken to a felon's cell in ,moyamensing ,prison by decree of ,judge ,finletter for alleged contempt of court1 he broke up his vibratory microscope1 his sympathetic transmitter1 and some devices1 which have taken much of his time since to reconstruct4 ,it would seem to be incomprehensible that a man who believes he has been specially endowed by ,providence to convey great truths to the world1 should have destroyed instruments which were the result of the labour of many years of research2 but ,schopenhauer tells us that genius possesses an abnormally developed nervous and cerebral system that brings with it hyper-sensibility1 which in union with intensity of will-energy1 that is also characteristic of genius1 occasions quick changes of mood and extravagant outbursts4 ,schopenhauer also explains why it is that men of genius are ignored by the age in which they appear3--,the genius comes into his age like a comet into the paths of the planets1 to whose well-regulated and comprehensible order its entirely eccentric course is foreign4 ,accordingly he cannot go hand in hand with the existing regular progress to the culture of the age1 but flings his works far out on the way in front 7as the dying ,emperor flung his spear among the enemy71 which time has first to overtake4 ,the achievement of the man of genius transcends not only the power of achievement of others1 but also their power of apprehension2 therefore they do not become directly conscious of him4 ,the man of talent is like the marksman who hits a mark the others cannot hit2 the man of genius is like the marksman who hits a mark that the sight of others cannot even reach4 ,in one sense this truth applies to all men1 for1 says ,cicero1 no man is understood excepting by his equals or his superiors4 ,admitting all that has been said of the difficulties attendant upon the comprehension of a genius by the age in which he lives1 it does not require genius to understand the blunders which1 perpetrated by the managers of the prematurely organized ,keely ,motor ,company1 have placed ,mr4 ,keely1 as well as themselves1 in false positions with the public2 leaving him since the winter of #ahhj-ha to bear the whole burden of the infamy brought about by their having offered stock for investment which could possess no tangible existence in the shape of property until the laws governing the unknown force that he was handling had been studied out and applied to mechanics in a patentable machine4 ,to those informed that this company ceased to hold annual meetings as far back as #ahha it will be a matter of surprise to hear that1 sitting up in its coffin1 seven or eight years after its burial1 it called another annual meeting1 and that now its managers are again applying the thumb-screw1 as in past years2 pressing their claims and threatening a suit for obtaining money under false pretences1 unless ,mr4 ,keely renounces his plan of progressive research1 and gives his time to the construction of engines for the ,keely ,motor ,company4 ,this requirement1 as was said in #ahha1 of a similar effort1 is as sensible1 under existing conditions1 as it would be to require ,keely to devote his time to growing figs on thorn trees4 ,it is from the ,minority ,report to the ,stockholders of the ,keely ,motor ,company from the ,board of ,directors 7made by a member of that board in #ahha1 ,john ,h4 ,lorimer71 that the material is gleaned for disclosing facts which it is due to ,mr4 ,keely should now1 since this last attempt to intimidate him1 be given to the public4 ,the stock of that company is not lessened in value by the mismanagement of its officers and directors2 for ,mr4 ,keely's moral obligations to its stockholders are as sacred to him as if the company had not long since forfeited its charter4 ,when ,mr4 ,keely became financially independent of the company last ,march1 speculation in the stock of that company received its death blow1 and the ,keely ,motor ,bubble burst1 leaving to the stockholders all that ever had any tangible existence in the shape of property in a more valuable position than it had ever been before4 ,mr4 ,lorimer is a gentleman of ,scotch birth1 who was elected a director of the ,keely ,motor ,company in #ahha1 and who resigned in #ahhb1 because he was unable to carry the enterprise1 and unwilling to fall in with the policy of the old directors4 ,before resigning1 he set himself to studying the position of affairs with a view to forming for the ,board a definite plan of action which ordinary business principles would justify4 ,this course resulted in a thoroughly business-like letter to ,mr4 ,keely in which1 under nine heads1 ,mr4 ,lorimer set down the conclusions he had reached as to the cause of the difficulties that had culminated in a threatened law suit1 and ,mr4 ,keely was ordered to ask that a special meeting of the ,board should be called at once1 to consider any proposition he should see fit to make towards settling the question whether he should proceed with the company's work or be permitted to defer it1 as he so much desired1 until he had fully developed the adaptations of his power already known to him or hereafter possible of discovery by him4 ,mr4 ,lorimer added3--,and now1 in conclusion1 ,i may say to you that the above deductions from the history of your motor are the result of patient and laborious inquiry on my part1 and ,i am truly at a loss to understand how1 or in what manner1 other than that herein suggested1 you can honourably vindicate your position2 and as no one ,i have met connected with the enterprise1 or personally acquainted with you1 hesitates for an instant in crediting you with the most unswerving integrity1 ,i have no hesitation in offering the above suggestions for your consideration2 and ,i trust you will so far adopt them as to enable the active portion of your friends to bring the organization rapidly into harmonious accord with you in the development of what all seem to think is the greatest wonder of our civilization1 the early completion of which will lift you to the highest pinnacle of fame as a scientist1 and make them co-dispensers with you of the ,god-given wealth of which you hold the key4 ,the date is #ajth of ,february1 #ahha4 ,this letter was followed by another dated ,february #aath1 in which ,mr4 ,lorimer submitted certain conclusions1 arrived at after meeting in ,new ,york with several members of the ,board of ,directors1 one of which reads3--,it seems to be generally understood that without your hearty co-operation and good will1 the company cannot realize value upon any existing contracts1 or any they may hereafter make with you4 ,at this time ,mr4 ,lorimer states that he had the opportunity presented of studying1 semi-officially1 the very peculiar man whose genius held his friends so spell-bound that they lost their power 7if such they possessed7 to adapt business methods to the enterprise4 ,to meet him socially in his shop1 ,mr4 ,lorimer writes1 after his day's work1 was1 ,i think1 invariably to be impressed with his earnestness1 honesty of purpose1 and above all1 with confidence in his knowledge of the plane of science he was working in 7acoustics71 and1 at the same time to be impressed with the folly of basing calculations for the government of the business details of the organization upon the statements made by him while contemplating the possible result of his researches4 ,with the hopeful spirit of an inventor1 ,mr4 ,keely always anticipated almost immediate mechanical success1 up to the hour in which he abandoned the automatic arrangement that was necessary to make his generator patentable4 ,from that time his line of perspective extended1 and he began to realize that he had been too sanguine in the past4 ,he had been like a man grappling in the dark with a foe1 the form of which had not even presented itself to his imagination2 but when1 in #ahhd1 ,macvicar's work on the structure of ether came like a torch to reveal the face of his antagonist1 what wonder that he1 with the enthusiasm of ,paracelsus1 felt his 444 fluttering pulse give evidence that ,god ,means good to me1 will make my cause ,his own2 and1 as in #ahha1 again rashly bound himself anew1 by fresh promises1 made to those who had the power to give or to withhold the sinews needed in the warfare he was waging8 ,to return to the report4 ,during the negotiations which followed1 facts in the history of the company were developed which convinced ,mr4 ,lorimer that ,mr4 ,keely was totally unable to measure time1 or define his plans1 because of the ever-changing results attained by him1 in researching the laws governing the force he was trying to harness4 ,at this time the treasurer of the company was proposing to bring over from ,new ,york to ,philadelphia a number of capitalists to witness an exhibition of the production of the force1 in order to dispose of #ejj shares at #be4jj dollars a share4 ,to this plan ,mr4 ,lorimer objected1 writing to the treasurer1 ,i fear that you would be putting yourself in a false position with the friends you might induce to take stock at the figures named1 and ,mr4 ,keely himself at first refused to give the exhibition1 but upon the application of the thumb-screw1 kept in readiness1 it took place4 ,at this time ,mr4 ,lorimer wrote to the president of the company1 ,if ,keely gives us the benefit of his discoveries1 it will require all our energies to guide our enterprise2 and1 on the other hand1 if he dies or is forestalled1 it will need all our care and attention to take care of our reputations4444 ,the fact that the ,board has some delicate and important work to perform1 brings us to the question1 ,are we properly organized to perform our part8 ,if we are1 let us show it by our acts1 and1 if not1 let us act like men1 worthy the important trust before us4 ,if ,i am overestimating the character and importance of this work1 you can show it to me2 and per contra1 if ,i am correct1 you can and will accept the responsibilities of the position you hold1 no matter how unpleasant1 no matter how irksome1 if understood by you and honourably supported by us4 ,mr4 ,lorimer then prepared this summary1 or analysis of the situation4 ,,summary4 #bfth ,july1 #ahha4 ,first4--,the existence of a discovery or invention which from evidences of its adaptability 7when complete7 to the industrial arts and sciences1 may be esteemed the most valuable discovery of civilization in modern or in ancient times1 inasmuch as it revolutionizes all known methods of generating power4 ,second4--,the retention by the discoverer and inventor of all the secrets whereby these discoveries can be utilized by the public1 thus making their future existence1 so far as the ,keely ,motor ,company is concerned1 depend entirely upon his life and goodwill4 ,third4--,the existence of a corporated company1 organized for the purpose of furnishing funds for the development and completion of the discovery1 and for the final control of certain specified inventions1 in certain specified localities4 ,fourth4--,the contracts under which the above-mentioned control of certain inventions is vested in the ,keely ,motor ,company1 being mere evidences of intention1 have no real value until the inventor has received his patents and verified the contracts by transfer of the same to the company4 ,fifth4--,if any conflict should arise between the company and the inventor1 in which the latter felt justified in withholding the transfer1 the existing contracts might be a good foundation to build litigation upon but not good for investment in4 ,sixth4--,the uncertainty of the future of the enterprise1 as thus indicated1 must of necessity invite speculative management2 and while speculation under some circumstances is legitimate and laudable1 under other conditions it may become illegitimate and reprehensible4 ,seventh4-- ,the existence of a speculative management in ,keely ,motor affairs has1 of necessity1 developed two interests--one which holds that the completion of the discovery in all its possible grandeur should ever be the sole object of its management1 and the other1 believing that on account of the human uncertainty of the completion of the invention1 they are in duty bound to make quick recoveries on their investments1 so that they may be safe financially1 in the event of a failure by ,keely to perfect his inventions4 ,it is not necessary to pursue this summary farther1 as the manner in which ,mr4 ,lorimer has set down the facts already given1 makes clear the nature of the conflicting interests that brought about the antagonism which he attempted to subdue1 bringing such a spirit of fairness and justice into his efforts as must have crowned them with success1 supported as he was by ,mr4 ,keely1 had it not been that those who advocated following a policy which1 at best1 aimed no farther than at the recouping of losses to themselves1 were in the majority4 ,it was at this time that ,mr4 ,keely manifested his willingness to assume1 on the one hand1 all the responsibility of the proper development of his discovery2 or1 on the other hand1 all the disgrace accompanying failure by his offer to purchase a controlling interest in the stock1 fifty-one thousand shares of which1 in order to prevent speculation1 he agreed to lock up for five years1 and to give the company a bond restraining him from negotiating or parting with a single share of it in that time1 the stock to be paid for as soon as certain deferred payments had been made to him4 ,this proposition of ,mr4 ,keely to the ,board of ,directors1 ,october #beth1 #ahha 7and laid upon the table by a large majority as unworthy of consideration71 was made from his earnest desire to control the presentation of his life's work to the world in a just and honourable way2 having recognized1 with ,mr4 ,lorimer1 the utter impossibility of reconciling the numerous interests created by mistakes of himself and the mismanagement of the ,board1 unless he could thus obtain the power to deliver an unencumbered enterprise to the world4 ,in the opinion of ,mr4 ,lorimer1 during the negotiations which he conducted between the management and ,mr4 ,keely1 the latter was the only one who had manifested any consistency or strength of purpose1 so far as the facts gave evidence1 which were brought before him1 of the history of the company4 ,when the validity of the contracts made with ,mr4 ,keely while he was president1 or director of the company1 were disputed1 he was called upon to resign1 which he did2 and yet no steps were taken to ascertain the value of the existing contracts1 which had all been made with him while he was both president and director1 and which were therefore illegal4 ,proceedings in equity were commenced against ,mr4 ,keely1 by the ,committee of the ,board of ,directors having the matter in charge1 late in the year #ahha1 while ,mr4 ,lorimer's report was still in the hands of the printer4 ,the spectacle of a ,board of thirteen ,directors1 composed of business men1 writes ,mr4 ,lorimer1 claiming that they have been foiled in their business calculations by a man whose mind has been so thoroughly absorbed in researching the problems presented by his wonderful discoveries that he could not possibly compare with any of them in business tact1 is truly a phenomenon which is not easy of explanation on any hypothesis1 but the one that their visions of prospective wealth have been so overpowering as to undo their prudence2 and then having in due process of time discovered their error1 it certainly is an edifying spectacle to see them now trying to throw all the blame on one poor mortal wholly absorbed in his inventions1 and by these efforts disturbing that mental equilibrium of both the inventor and themselves1 which is absolutely necessary to ultimate success4 ,when boys1 in early summer1 pick unripe fruit and eat it1 because of their unwillingness to await the ripening thereof1 they sometimes suffer acutely for their haste4 ,yet no one ever thinks of punishing the tree because of their sufferings2 nor is it deemed necessary to justice to preserve the fruit of the tree1 when ripe1 for the sole use of the impatient ones as a recompense for their early sufferings6 ,so it has been with the ,keely ,motor ,company2 undue haste to gather the golden fruit that was to come from it1 has led to a great deal of suffering financially among a few impatient believers4 ,still it does not seem to me to be wise to curse the inventor1 or his inventions because he has not given us the fruit when we expected it would be ripe4444 ,the effort to force ,keely to divulge his secrets failed1 for at that time he had nothing of a practical nature to divulge1 and though possessing no business qualifications1 he was too shrewd to cut off any of his resources for supplies1 necessary to enable him to persevere in his efforts to attain some practical result1 as he surely would have done1 had he said1 ,i know very little more than you know of the laws governing the force ,i have discovered4 ,i can only control their operation by experimental research1 and the more time that is wasted in building engines1 until ,i have made myself acquainted with these laws1 the longer will you have to wait for your golden fruit4 ,mr4 ,keely was no more able at that time to give the faintest idea of the present stage of his researches than ,professor ,leidy or ,dr4 ,wilcox could now1 after witnessing the experiments in sympathetic attraction1 write out a clear formulation of its governing law1 and an inductive substantiation of it4 ,even were it possible1 no reader could understand it because the discovery made by ,mr4 ,keely is not in accordance with any of the facts known to science4 ,mr4 ,keely's experiments in disintegrating water prove that incalculable amounts of latent force exist in the molecular spaces2 but in the opinion of scientists1 molecular aggregation is attended with dissipation of energy1 not with absorption of energy4 ,if the men of science are right1 then there must be an absolute creation of energy1 for only by admitting its absorption in aggregation1 could molecular dissociation supply the force witnessed4 ,keely1 of course1 denies any creation of energy1 claiming only that he can produce an indefinite supply by the expenditure of an infinitesimally small amount of energy4 ,every new discovery necessitates a new nomenclature4 ,the vocabulary coined by ,mr4 ,keely1 to meet his requirements in formulating his hypotheses into theories as he progresses1 conveys as little meaning to those who read his writings1 as the word electricity conveyed #bjj years ago4 ,professor ,crookes remarked that reading ,mr4 ,keely's writings was like reading ,persian without a dictionary4 ,another learned professor said that they seemed to him to be composed in an unknown tongue1 so profoundly unintelligible had he found the extracts sent to him4 ,one must be familiar with ,mr4 ,keely's instruments and their operation1 in order to comprehend even the nature of his researches4 ,an author of philosophical works1 who was present at some experiments illustrative of varying chords of mass1 and whose theories had not been in unison with those of ,mr4 ,keely on that subject1 sat for some time after the demonstration with his eyes fixed upon the floor1 wearing as serious an expression of countenance as if he were looking on the grave of his most cherished views4 ,the first remark that he made was1 ,what would ,jules ,verne say if he were here8 ,the rotation of the needle of a compass1 the compass placed on a glass slab and connected with the transmitter by a wire1 #abj revolutions in a second1 had the same effect upon the scientists present1 one of awe2 so completely were they transfixed and unable to form a conjecture as to the mysterious influence from any known law of science4 ,there was only one professor present1 a very young man1 who ventured the whispered suggestion of concealed mechanism under the pedestal2 and as ,mr4 ,keely soon after had occasion to wheel the pedestal across the room1 showing that it was not stationary1 and could have no concealed connection within or without1 the young professor took up another line of conjecture4 ,as ,macvicar says1 it has grown to be the fashion1 to a marvellous extent1 to give predominance in education to physical and mathematical studies over moral and mental4 ,hence a very general and growing prepossession in favour of material nature4 ,astronomy1 natural philosophy1 chemistry1 natural history1 geology1 these and the like are in our day held to be everything4 ,he continues3-- ,now1 all these branches of study1 however various in detail1 agree in this1 that they exclude the conception of a true self-directive power from the field of thought4 ,they offer for consideration nothing but figures1 movements1 and laws4 ,and thus they tend to form the popular mind to the habit of looking for figures1 movements1 and laws everywhere1 and for rejecting all other conceptions as intruders4 ,but of all such other conceptions1 there is nothing so difficult and so intractable1 under physical modes of investigation1 as self-directive power4 ,it therefore runs a great risk of being rejected1 and thus the mind1 from its first training1 having been in physics1 carrying out here1 as it usually does everywhere1 its first love into all its after thoughts1 shuts up the student surreptitiously with materialism as his philosophy4 ,thus it is easy to see how materialism should come to be a current opinion1 when the popular education runs all in favour of physical pursuits4 ,but if philosophy must yield to the demands of the logical faculty for an extreme simplicity1 unity1 identity1 at the fountain-head of nature1 it were more logical to regard those phenomena and laws named physical1 such as the laws of motion1 elasticity1 gravitation1 etc41 as manifestations1 when existing under certain limiting conditions1 of substances or beings which have also in them1 when not so limited1 and when existing under certain conditions1 ability to manifest self-directive power4 ,that every body is compounded1 constituted1 or made up of molecules1 is universally agreed4 ,every body is therefore a fit subject for analysis4 ,but when any body is submitted to analysis in reference to its mere corporeity or bodily nature1 that is1 its extension and impenetrability1 what do we ultimately arrive at8 ,do we not1 in reference to the attribute of extension1 arrive at particles1 of which the physical limit is that they have at least ceased to be extended1 and are but mere points in space8 ,and as to the attribute of impenetrability1 what do we in the last analysis arrive at1 but the idea of a substance that can resist the intrusion into its place of other similar substances1 and1 therefore1 ultimately1 a centre of force4 ,and thus1 under a logical analysis1 which must be admitted to be legitimate1 it may be maintained that a body or chemical element resolves itself into a system of centres of force balancing each other at certain distances1 and thus rendering the whole molecule or mass extended1 as body is known to be4 ,the elements of body1 therefore1 are things of which these attributes are to be affirmed in the first instance1 that they possess unextended substance and extensive power4 ,but1 if so1 do they not touch upon the confines of the spiritual world to say the least8 asks ,macvicar2 and the ,newton whom he anticipated would give a mcanique cleste to mankind1 solves the problem1 answers the question by his discovery of the cerebellic stream or will-flow4 ,body and spirit1 one at the fountain-head1 when rising into existence1 form1 as it were1 the first breath of creation2 for1 as ,sir ,wm4 ,thompson says3 ,life proceeds from life and from nothing else4 ,they are the opposite poles of being and constitute the two principles by the harmonious interweaving of which the beautiful system of creation is constituted1 and its economy worked out4 ,such a view1 far from being contrary to the canons of science1 is even the necessary complement of science4 ,that unity1 which is the last word of science1 must always include two objects1 existing in contrast after all4 ,the law of couples1 of opposites1 of reciprocal action between two contrasted yet homogeneous and harmonizing elements1 each of which opens a field for the other1 and brings it into action1 is of universal extent4 ,in the organic world1 also1 no less than in the purely physical and chemical1 all is framed according to the same law of couples4 ,in the sphere of sensibility1 in like manner1 everything turns on the antagonism of pleasure and pain1 and in the moral sphere of good and evil4 ,nor is the world of pure intellect exempt from this law1 but on the contrary displays its influence everywhere4 ,hence faith and sight1 identity and difference1 finite and infinite1 objective and subjective1 space and time1 cause and effect1 the world of realities and the world of ideas4 ,in a word1 every system of thought and of things1 when complete1 present as its basis two co-ordinate elements1 the reciprocals of each other2 or one parted into two reciprocally1 and by the harmonious antagonism of both the beautiful web of nature is woven4 ,if we are to be consistent1 mind and matter ought always to be viewed as distinct1 and the opposite poles of being2 inertia1 or unvarying submissiveness to the laws of motion being the characteristic of the one2 self-directive power the characteristic of the other4 ,the universal analogy of science sanctioned ,macvicar in the characteristic he thus arrived at as that of animated nature1 for if inertia1 or the obedience to pressures and impulses from without1 be the characteristic of matter1 then that which is needed as the other term to complete the couple is just what has been insisted on1 viz41 self-directive power1 the power to cause pressures and impulses4 ,here is shown the symmetrical relation in which this power1 when viewed as the characteristic of the whole animal kingdom 7which plainly points to man1 and culminates in human nature71 places the animal in relation with the vegetable and the mineral kingdoms4 ,of minerals or crystals1 the characteristic is simply self-imposing or self-concreting power4 ,they are1 so to speak1 merely insoluble seeds without an embryo4 ,to this1 self-developing power is added in plants1 and forms their acknowledged characteristic4 ,while of animals the characteristic1 according to the view here advanced 7the same seed-producing1 self-developing1 powers continuing7 is self-directive power superadded4 ,this relationship between these three kingdoms of nature is as homogeneous and symmetrical as is necessary to appear to be legitimate1 and is a true expression of the order of nature4 ,granting these two principles1 the inert and the self-directive1 the necessary and the free1 we obtain the materials for a universe1 without disputing the fact of human liberty and bringing into suspicion even the possibility either of morality or immorality4 ,if man be really free as well as under law1 in this union of body and spirit1 then in human nature heaven and earth truly embrace each other2 and no reason appears why1 as the ages roll on1 our own free thought may not have the run of the universe4444 ,what study then can be more replete with interest1 what researches can possess more of fascination1 than those which ,mr4 ,keely's discoveries are preparing the way for8 ,the discoveries of ,mr4 ,keely 7demonstrated--as he is now prepared to demonstrate them7 cannot be disputed1 though his system may be called in question4 ,with the humility of genius1 he calls his theories hypotheses1 and his hypotheses conjectures4 ,the solidity of the principles1 as laid down by himself1 cannot be decided upon by others until he has brought to light the whole system that grows out of them4 ,but it is time the public should know that the odium thrown upon him by the ,keely ,motor ,company1 he does not deserve4 ,it is time that the ,press should cease its sneers1 its cry of ,crucify him1 crucify him6 morally speaking1 and extend to him that discriminating appreciation of his work and encouragement which the ,new ,york ,home ,journal1 ,truth1 ,detroit ,tribune1 ,chicago ,herald1 ,toledo ,blade1 ,atlanta ,constitution1 ,the ,statesman1 and ,vienna ,news have been the first to do4 ,let the ,press contrast the past history of science with the present position of ,keely1 as ,professor ,dewar has done4 ,only such a man who knows from experience the labour1 the difficulties1 the uncertainties1 attendant upon researching unknown laws of nature is able to appreciate all that is now being concentrated in the single life of one man4 ,it is time that capitalists should step from their ranks to protect ,keely from the selfish policy of the managers of a speculative company1 which has long since forfeited all claims upon him1 to continue mechanical work for it1 even admitting that it ever possessed that right2 and1 more than all else1 it is time that science should send her delegates to confer with the broad-minded men who have had the courage to give testimony1 without which ,keely could not have stood where1 this year1 he stands for the first time1 fearless of threats1 pursuing his researches on his own line1 to acquire that knowledge of the laws governing his discoveries by which alone he can gain sufficient control of machinery to insure financial success4 ,meanwhile1 are there no men who are able to feel an interest 7without reference to commercial results7 in a discovery which sweeps away the dbris of materialism as chaff is swept before a whirlwind8--giving indisputable proof that1 as ,st4 ,paul teaches1 we are the offspring of ,god2 or1 as ,aratus wrote1 from whom he quoted3-- ,from ,god we must originate1 ,not any time we break the spell ,that binds us to the ineffable4 ,indeed1 we all are evermore ,having to do with ,god3 for we ,his very kind and offspring be3 ,and to ,his offspring the benign ,fails not to give benignant sign4 ,from ,new ,york ,truth1 #crd ,july1 #ahij4 ,i think it is safe1 for even the most conservative and pig-headed of scientists1 to admit that ,keely1 the contemned1 the scoffed at1 the derided1 the man whom every picayune peddler called charlatan because he could not harness the hitherto undiscovered forces of ether in less time than one might hitch up a mule1 is the most original and the most straightforward of inventors1 and that in his own good time he will give to the world a power that will throw steam and electricity into disuse1 open the realms of air as a public highway for man1 and send great ships careering over ocean with a power developed by sound4 ,his theory of etheric vibration is now conclusively established1 and it is only a question of time and material that delays its use as a servant to man4 ,the fact is patent1 so that he who runs may read1 but the ox must have the yoke1 the horse the collar1 the engine the cylinder1 and the dynamo the coil1 ere they can work their wonders4 ,while ,keely was hampered by mere tradesmen1 who only looked to the immediate recoupment of their outlay1 men more anxious for dividends than discoveries1 he could do little save turn showman1 and exhibit his partial control of the harmonies of nature as springs catch woodcocks1 and was forced to open his crude contrivances to divert the eternal will of the cosmos to work-a-day uses1 that he might coax from the greed and credulity of mere mammon-worshippers the sorely grudged means to continue his exploration of the infinite4 ,his genius was prisoned in a test tube1 and only let out to play monkey tricks before muddle-headed merchants1 who could see the effect1 but not the means1 and so the greatest discovery of the age was turned into a raree show1 and the eternal music of the spheres was set1 figuratively speaking1 to play tunes to attract custom like a barrel organ before a dime museum4 ,,chapter ,,xi4 ,,vibratory ,,sympathetic ,,polar ,,flows4--,,keely',s ,,contributions ,,to ,,science4 ,evermore brave feet in all the ages ,climb the heights that hide the coming day1-- ,evermore they cry1 these seers and sages1 ,from their cloud1 ',our doctrines make no way4' ,all too high they stand above the nations1 ,shouting forth their trumpet-calls sublime1 ,shouting downwards their interpretations ,of the wondrous secrets born of ,time4 444 ,who can say what secrets the now unread 'fairy tales of science' may have to tell to those who live in this later age8--,the ,globe4 ,the question has often been asked1 ,how much energy does ,keely expend in the production of the force he is handling8 or again1 ,can ,keely show that a foot-pound of vibratory sympathy can be more easily developed from the resources of nature1 than a foot-pound of good honest work8 ,in the economy of nature profit and loss must balance in mechanical conditions2 but ,keely is not dealing with mechanical physics4 ,there is an immense difference between vibratory physics1 in which field ,keely is researching1 and mechanical physics4 ,the consumption of coal to expand water for the production of steam power1 in the operation of engines1 cannot be compared to a force which is yielded in sympathetic vibration or by sympathetic flows4 ,in mechanical physics1 no matter what the nature of the force may be1 its production must necessarily be accompanied by a corresponding expenditure of force in some form or other4 ,the amount of force covered by a human volition cannot be measured1 yet it produces the wonderful effects that are exhibited on the human frame in its overt actions4 ,something like this is the difference between sympathetical and mechanical force4 ,the force of will cannot be multiplied by mechanical means1 making it give pound for pound4 ,this would annihilate both the mental and the physical1 were it possible4 ,in his researches1 ,mr4 ,keely1 who is dealing entirely with ,,vibratory ,,sympathetic and ,,polar flows1 is hopeless in regard to convincing the scientific world of the value of his discoveries until he has compelled its attention by commercial success4 ,to the question1 ,what does the supply cost in dollars and cents1 per horse-power developed8 he answers1 ,it costs nothing more after the machinery is made1 than the vibratory concordant impulse which associates it with the polar stream4 ,the twanging of a taut string1 the agitation of a tuning-fork1 as associated with the resonating condition of the sympathetic transmitter1 is all that is necessary to induce the connective link1 and to produce this costless motive power4 ,as long as the transmitter is in sympathy with the sympathetic current of the triune polar stream1 the action of the sympathetic instrument or engine continues4 ,again1 mechanical conservation of energy is one thing2 sympathetic conservation is another1 and we cannot expect ,keely will reveal what he has discovered concerning the forces that he is dealing with until he has himself acquired that full knowledge of their action which will protect the rights of those who are interested in the dollars and cents part of the enterprise4 ,macvicar said that if extreme vicissitudes of belief on the part of men of science are evidences of uncertainty1 it may be affirmed that of all kinds of knowledge none is more uncertain than science2 but slow as mankind is in the progress of discoveries bearing upon unknown laws of nature1 men of science are still slower in recognizing truths after they have been discovered and demonstrated4 ,two centuries elapsed between the discoveries of ,pythagoras and their revival by ,copernicus4 ,tycho ,brahe opposed the ,pythagorean system until his death2 ,galileo1 adopting it and demonstrating it in all its purity1 suffered for his support of it at the hands of bigots4 ,and so history now repeats itself4 ,were it possible to convince scientists en masse of the grandeur of ,keely's work1 they would protect him from the interruptions and law-suits which have so retarded his progress that now it looks very much as though he would never be permitted to complete his system4 ,the world is full of inventors1 but there is but one man able to unfold1 to this age and generation1 the wonderful mysteries attendant upon vibratory physics1 while there are thousands who1 when a mastery of the principle has been gained1 can invent machinery to apply it to commercial uses4 ,macvicar asks1 ,who that goes so far as to make a question of all1 or almost all1 the data of common sense can legitimately refrain from making it a question whether the laws of phenomena which men of science discover may not be laws of thinking1 merely imposed upon nature as her laws8 ,nay1 who can refrain from admitting with ,kant that they can be nothing more8 ,as a suggestion to those interested in psychological researches ,i will mention that ,keely has copied nature in all his instruments from the ,vibrophone1 which is fashioned after the human ear1 up to the ,disintegrator1 in which the neutral centre represents the human heart4 ,with the system which ,keely is unfolding to us we may well say1 with ,buckle1 ,a vast and splendid career lies before us1 which it will take many ages to complete4 ,as we surpass our fathers1 so will our children surpass us4 ,waging against the forces of nature what has too often been a precarious1 unsteady1 and unskilled warfare1 we have never yet put forth the whole of our strength1 and have never united all our faculties against our common foe4 ,we have1 therefore1 been often worsted1 and have sustained many and grievous reverses4 ,but1 even so1 such is the elasticity of the human mind1 such is the energy of that immortal and godlike principle which lives within us1 that we are baffled without being discouraged1 our very defeats quickening our resources1 and we may hope that our descendants1 benefiting by our failures1 will profit by our example1 and that for them is reserved that last and decisive stage of the great conflict between man and nature1 in which advancing from success to success1 fresh trophies will be constantly won2 every struggle issuing in a conquest1 and every battle ending in a victory4 ,the force discovered by ,keely--no1 the force revealed to him--will rule the earth with an influence mighty in the interests of humanity4 ,the completion of his system for science and commerce will usher in the dawning of a new era4 ,while our leading men of science are everywhere occupying themselves with the mysteries of electro-magnetic radiation1 with the action of the ether1 with the structure of the molecule1 the instruments with which they are researching are1 in comparison with those which ,keely has invented1 for his researches1 like the rudest implements of the savage1 compared to those developed by modern civilization4 ,a discussion has recently been carried on in one of our ,reviews1 as to whether the energy which feeds the magnet comes from the atmosphere1 from gravity1 from solar rays1 or from earth currents4 ,nothing is more simple than ,keely's explanation1 as proved by his demonstrations4 ,the energy of the magnet comes from the polar stream2 and1 though the introductory impulse is so slight that it cannot be weighed any more than can the flow of the mind1 yet1 if kept up for years1 it could not be computed by billions of tons in its effect4 ,the magnet that lifts pounds to-day1 if the load of the armature is gradually increased day by day1 will lift double the amount in time4 ,whence comes this energy8 ,keely teaches that it comes from sympathetic association with one of the triune currents of the polar stream1 and that its energy will increase as long as sympathetic flows last1 which is through eternity4 ,the physicist tells you that you cannot make something out of nothing2 that in the economy of nature profit and loss must balance2 that no matter what the nature of the force may be1 its production must necessarily be accompanied by a corresponding expenditure of force in some form or other1 etc41 etc4 ,but1 in the prodigality of nature1 this energy flows1 without measure and without price1 from the great storehouse of the ,infinite ,will4 ,from the sympathetic portion of the etheric field1 all visible aggregations of matter emanate1 and on the same order that molecular masses of all living organisms are vitalized by the sympathetic flow from the brain4 ,our most learned men1 said ,buckle1 know not what magnetism is1 nor electricity1 nor gravity1 nor cohesion1 nor force4 ,keely shows us1 by mechanical means1 what magnetism is4 ,by neutralizing or overcoming gravity1 he proves to us that he understands its nature2 electricity he declares to be a certain form of atomic vibration2 and1 in the disintegration of quartz1 he demonstrates that cohesive force1 like gravity1 is an ever-existing force1 holding together all molecular masses by the infinite velocity of its vibrations2 which1 were these vibrations to cease for one instant1 would fall apart1 molecules and atoms1 and return to the ether in which they originated4 ,,keely',s ,,contributions ,,to ,,science4 #i ,an infinitely subtle substance1 out of which all other substances are constituted1 in varying forms1 passes back again into simplicity4 ,the same principle underlies the harmonies of music and the motion of heavenly bodies4--,pythagoras4 ,one of the most arduous problems is that of energies acting at distances4 ,are they real8 ,of all those that appear incontrollable1 one only remains1 gravitation4 ,will it escape us also8 ,the laws of its action incline us to think so4 ,the nature of electricity is another problem which recalls us to the condition of electric and magnetic forces through space4 ,behind this question arises the most important problem of all1 that of the nature and properties of the substance which fills space1--the ether1--its structure1 its motion1 its limits1 if it possesses any4 ,we find this subject of research1 day by day1 predominating over all others4 ,it seems as though a knowledge of ether should not only reveal to us the nature of that imponderable substance1 but will unveil to us the essence of matter itself and of its inherent properties1 weight and inertia4 ,soon the question set by modern physics will be1 ,are not all things due to conditions of ether8 ,that is the ultimate end of our science2 these are the most exalted summits to which we can hope to attain4 ,shall we ever reach them8 ,will it be soon8 ,we cannot answer4--,prof4 ,henri ,hertz1 in ,la ,revue ,scientifique1 ,october #bf1 #ahhh4 ,in the long delay attendant upon the application to mechanics of the unknown force which ,john ,ernest ,worrell ,keely has discovered in the field of vibration1 the question is often heard1 ,what has ,keely done8 with the remark1 ,he has never done anything2 he is always promising to do something1 but he never keeps his promises4 ,let us see what ,keely1 in his researches1 has done for science2 although1 as yet1 he has done nothing for commerce4 ,we are quick to forget the experiences of history1 which show what a length of time has invariably elapsed between the discovery of a new force and its use in mechanics4 ,watt commenced his experiments on the elastic force of steam in #agfd1 obtaining about forty pounds total pressure per square inch4 7,it has been stated that it was thirty years before he succeeded in perfecting his safety-valve1 or governor1 which made it possible to use steam without running great risks47 ,fifty years later1 in #ahad1 the first steam locomotive was built2 but it was not until #ahbe that the locomotive was used for traffic--travelling at a speed of from six to eight miles in an hour4 ,keely commenced his experiments with ether in the winter of #ahgb-gc1 showing a pressure of two thousand pounds per square inch4 ,it does not look now as though half a century would elapse before ,keely's discovery will supersede steam in travel and traffic4 ,in experimenting with ether1 he has shown1 from time to time1 since #ahgc1 a pressure of from twenty thousand to thirty-two thousand pounds per square inch2 but he was occupied many years in his researches before he obtained sufficient control over the ether to prevent the explosions which made wrecks of his machines1 bursting iron and steel pipes1 twelve inches in circumference1 as if they were straws4 ,he has now arrived at a stage in his experimental research in which he can1 without danger of explosions1 exhibit to scientists such manifestations of an unknown force as to place him before the world where he would have stood many years ago1 had it not been for the calumnious attacks of those men of science who found it easier to denounce him than to account for the phenomena which they witnessed in his workshop4 ,professor ,ira ,remsen1 in his ,theoretical ,chemistry1 writes1 ,as regards the cause of the phenomena of the motion of the heavenly bodies1 we have no conception at the present day4 ,it is true we say that these phenomena are caused by the attraction of gravitation2 but1 after all1 we do not know what pulls these bodies together4 ,let us see what ,keely knows on this subject8 #ast4 ,after a lifetime of research into the laws governing vibrations1 which develop this force1 ,keely is able to demonstrate partial control of the power that he has discovered1--a power which he believes to be the governing medium of the universe1 throughout animate and inanimate nature1 controlling the advance and recession of the solar and planetary masses1 and reigning in the mineral1 the vegetable1 and the animal kingdom1 according to the laws that rule its action in each1 as undeviatingly as it governs the motions of the earth itself1 and of all the heavenly bodies in space4 ,keely calls this power1 which he is endeavouring to apply in mechanics for the benefit of mankind1 sympathetic negative attraction1--it being necessary to use the word attraction1 as no other word has yet been coined to take its place4 #bnd4 ,he has determined and written out a system of the vibratory conditions governing the aggregation of all molecular masses1 as to their relation sympathetically one to the other1 stating the conditions to be brought about in order to induce antagonism or repellent action1 disintegration1 etc42 but he has not yet been able to control the operation of his ,disintegrator so as to use it with safety to the operator1 for mining purposes1 etc4 #crd4 ,he has proved by demonstration that the subdivision of matter under different orders of progressive vibration evolves by such subdivision entirely new and distinct elements1 too multiple to enumerate4 ,he has systematized the proper vibratory chords1 progressively1 from the introductory molecular to the inter-etheric1 embracing seven distinct orders of triple subdivision4 ,he has elaborated a system of inducing sympathetic negative attraction on metallic masses1 with great range of motion1 and instant depolarization of the same1 by vibratory change of their neutral centres4 ,keely controls the transmission of these sympathetic streams by a medium of high molecular density1 viz41 drawn wires of differentiated metals1 gold1 silver1 platinum1 ,german silver1 etc4 ,in some recent experiments he took apart1 for inspection of its interior construction1 the instrument which he has invented for the production of the force1 cutting the wires with which he had operated in sympathetic attraction and propulsion1 and distributing the fragments to those who were present1 among whom was ,professor ,leidy1 to whom the ,geological ,society of ,london has awarded the ,lyell ,medal1 and the ,academy of ,sciences of ,france the ,cuvier ,prize4 #dth4 ,keely has discovered that all sympathetic streams1 cerebellic1 gravital1 magnetic1 and electric1 are composed of triple flows2 this fact governing all the terrestrial and celestial orders of positive and negative radiation4 ,in gravity it would be more correct to speak of triple connective links1 as there is no flow of gravity4 #eth4 ,keely has discovered and was the first to demonstrate that electricity has never been handled2 that it is in principle as material as is water2 that it is not merely a force or a form of energy1--that it is matter2 and that what we call electricity1 and have diverted for commercial use in electric lighting1 is but one of the triune currents1 harmonic1 enharmonic1 and diatonic1 which are united in pure electricity2 that the enharmonic current seems to be sympathetically and mysteriously associated with the dominant current2 and that the dominant current can no more be brought under control than can the lightning itself4 ,the diversion of the dominant current would mean destruction to any mechanical medium used for that purpose1 and death to the operator4 ,the intense heat evolved by the electric stream ,keely attributes to the velocity of the triple subdivision at the point of dispersion1 as each triple seeks its medium of affinity4 ,sudden unition induces the same effect2 but demonstration shows that the concentration of this triple force is as free of percussion as is the breath of an infant against the atmosphere2 for the three currents flow together as in one stream1 in the mildest sympathetic way1 while their discharge after concentration is1 in comparison to their accumulation1 as the tornado's force to the waft of the butterfly's wing4 ,the enharmonic current of this triple stream1 ,keely thinks1 carries with it the power of propulsion that induces disturbance of negative equilibrium2 which disturbance is essential to the co-ordination of its flow1 in completing the1 triune stream of electricity4 ,when this fluid is discharged from the clouds1 each triplet or third seeks its terrestrial concordant1 there to remain until that supreme law which governs disturbance of equilibrium again induces sympathetic concordant concentration1 continuing to pass through its evolutions1 positively and negatively1 until the solar forces are expended4 ,my researches have proved to me1 writes ,keely1 the subtle and pure conditions of the power of negative attraction and positive propulsion4 #fth4 ,these same researches have enabled ,keely to pronounce definitely as to the nature of what is recognized as gravity1 an ever-existing1 eternal force1 coexistent with the compound etheric1 or high luminous1 entering into all forms of aggregated matter at their birth4 ,keely thinks that gravity is the source from which all visible matter springs1 and that the sympathetic or neutral centre of such aggregation becomes at birth a connective concordant link to all neutral centres that have preceded it and to all that may succeed it1 and that disturbance of equilibrium1 like gravity1 is an ever-existing force4 ,his researches in the vibratory subdivision of matter have revealed to him some of the mysteries of the hidden sympathetic world1 teaching that the visible world1 as ,coleridge wrote1 is but the clothing of the invisible world2 that true philosophy1 as ,professor ,george ,bush said1 when reached will conduct us into the realm of the spiritual as the true region of causes1 disclosing new and unthought-of relations between the world of matter and of mind4 ,professor ,thurston writes1 in the ,january number of the ,north ,american ,review1 ,we are continually expecting to see a limit reached by the discoverer1 and by the inventor1 and are as constantly finding that we are simply on a frontier which is being steadily pushed further and further out into the infinite unknown4 ,the border-land is still ahead of us1 constantly enlarging as we move on4 ,the more we gain1 the more is seen to be achievable4 ,all planetary masses ,keely calls terrestrial1 showing in his writings that the beauty of the celestial concordant chords of sympathy forming the harmonious connective link1 in what may be denominated the music of the spheres1 is seen in the alternate oscillating range of motion between the planetary systems2 for at a certain range of the greater distance1 harmony is established1 and the attractive forces are brought into action1 under the command1 ,thus far shalt thou go1 and no further4 ,then in the return towards the neutral centres1 when at the nearest point to each other1 the opposite or propulsive force is brought into play2 and thus near shalt thou come1 and no nearer2 advancing and receding under the celestial law of etheric compensation and restoration1 as originally established by the ,great ,creator4 #gth4 ,keely has constructed instruments by which he is endeavouring to determine the nature of the triune action of the polar terrestrial stream1 or envelope1 as regards its vibratory philosophy4 ,he is seeking to demonstrate its sympathetic association with the celestial stream1 or luminiferous track1--the compound etheric field1 from which all planetary masses spring4 ,he considers the electric stream to be one of the triune sympathetic streams which help to build up1 in their order of triple concentration1 the high vitality of the polar stream1 or1 more correctly1 the magnetic-electric terrestrial envelope1 without which all living organisms would cease to exist4 ,he classes the cohesive force of molecular masses as the dominant order of the electric stream1 the molecule owing its negative attractive quality to the magnetic element4 ,in ,keely's beautiful experiments in antagonizing the polar stream1 recently given before men of science1 he has copied in his instruments the conditions which ,nature has established in all her terrestrial ranges1--conditions necessary in order to equate a state of sympathetic disturbance for the revitalization of what is continually being displaced by negative dispersion4 ,these mechanical conditions are principally differential vibratory settings on molecular aggregations of the metallic masses of gold1 silver1 and platinum4 #hth4 ,he has discovered that the range of molecular motion in all quiescent masses is equal to one-third of their diameters1 and that all extended range is induced by sound-force1 set at chords of the thirds which are antagonistic to the combined chords of the mass of the neutral centres that they represent1 no two masses being alike1 and that at a certain increased range of molecular motion1 induced by the proper acoustic force1 the molecules become repellent1 and that when the sympathetic centres are influenced by a vibration concordant to the one that exists in themselves1 the molecules become attractive2 that the repellent condition seems to take place at a distance of about ten of the diameters of the molecules1 this distance representing the neutral line of their attractive force1 or the dividing line between the attractive and the repellent4 ,beyond this line1 perfect triple separation takes place2 inside of it1 perfect attractive association is the result4 ,the force which ,mr4 ,keely uses in running machinery is the sympathetic attractive1--the force which1 according to his theories1 draws the planets together2 while in his system of arial navigation1 should he live to perfect it1 he will use a negation of this force1--the same that regulates the motion of the planets in their recession from each other4 ,it is the sympathetic attractive force which keeps the planets subservient to a certain range of motion1 between their oscillations4 ,if this condition were broken up1 the rotation of planets would cease2 if destroyed at a given point of recession1 all planets would become wanderers1 like the comets2 if destroyed at another given point1 assimilation would take place1 as two bullets fired through the air1 meeting1 would fuse into one mass4 ,nature has established her sympathetic concordants from the birth of the neutral centres of the planets1 in a manner known only to the ,infinite ,one4 ,this is gravity4 ,the music of the spheres is a reality4 ,the finer the power the greater the force4 ,thus1 the inaudible atomic1 etheric1 and inter-etheric sounds1 which control and direct the harmony of the movements of the celestial universe1 are the most powerful of all sounds4 ,if our faculty of hearing were a hundred billions of times intensified1 we might be able to hear the streams of light as plainly as we now hear the sighings of the wind4 ,again1 to answer the often-asked question1 ,what has ,keely done8 #ith4 ,he has broken joints of his fingers and thumbs1 he has broken his ribs1 he has had his left side paralyzed for weeks1 he has lost the sight of one eye for months1 in his hand-to-hand fight with the genii that he has encountered1 and cannot completely subdue until he has effected the condition of polarization and depolarization which is necessary for the control of rotation and reversions in his commercial engine4 ,an illness of nine weeks followed his abandonment of water in disintegrating2 and he was obliged to return to its use1 to avoid the percussion that was induced by the rapid vibration of the atmospheric air4 ,to illustrate3 if a bullet is fired at a man through a vessel of water a foot thick1 the bullet is flattened out without injuring the man2 while if nothing intervenes the man is killed4 ,the question naturally arises1 ,are not the forces with which ,keely is dealing of too subtle a nature to be harnessed to do the daily work of the world8 ,even were it so1 the fascination attendant upon his researches would prevent him from abandoning them2 but his faith in his ability to accomplish all that he has undertaken to do for the ,keely ,motor ,company and for others is equalled only by the persistent energy which1 in the face of gigantic obstacles1 of cruel obloquy1 of baffled endeavours1 leads him to persevere to the end4 ,he believes that the successful result is as positive as are the continued revolutions of our globe1 under the great law which governs all ,nature's highest1 grandest1 and most sensitive operations4 ,and when has ,nature ever revealed a force save to permit man to subjugate it for the progress of our race8 ,another question often heard is1 ,why does not ,keely make known his discoveries8 #ajth4 ,he has written three treatises to explain his system1 the titles of which are as follows3-- ,i4 ,theoretical ,expos or ,philosophical ,analysis of ,vibro-,molecular1 ,vibro-,atomic1 and ,sympathetic ,vibro-,etheric ,forces1 as applied to induce ,mechanical ,rotation by ,negative ,sympathetic ,attraction4 ,,ii4 ,explanatory ,analysis of ,vibro-,acoustic ,mechanism in all its ,different ,groupings or ,combinations to induce ,propulsion and ,attraction 7sympathetically7 by the ,power of ,sound-,force2 as also the ,different ,conditions of ,intensity1 both ,positive and ,negative1 on the ,progressive ,octaves to ,ozonic ,liberation and ,luminosity4 ,,iii4 ,the ,determining ,principle of ,matter1 or the ,connective ,link between the ,finite and the ,infinite1 progressively considered from the ,crude ,molecular to the ,compound ,inter-,etheric2 showing the ,control of ,spirit over ,matter in all the ,variations of ,mass-,chords and ,molecular ,groupings1 both ,physical and ,mechanical4 ,if these treatises were read from the first page to the last1 by men of science1 they would not at present be any better understood than were ,gilbert's writings in his age1 author of ,de ,magnete4 ,newton was indebted to ,gilbert for his discovery of the so-called law of gravitation4 ,keely defines gravity as transmittive inter-etheric force under immense etheric vibration1 and electricity as a certain form of atomic vibration4 ,when ,gilbert1 court-physician to ,queen ,elizabeth1 announced his discovery of electricity1 he was asked by his compeers of what use it was4 ,no one dreamed then of it as a motive power4 ,he replied1 ,of what use is a baby8 ,it may develop into a man or a woman1 and1 although we cannot make any use of electricity now1 the world may in time find out uses for it4 ,just as little understood would ,keely's writings be now on sympathetic negative attraction as were ,gilbert's writings then on electricity and magnetism4 ,men found no sense in the words electric and electricity1 although derived from the ,greek root for amber4 ,the same fault is found with ,keely for coining new words which no one understands4 ,every branch of science1 every doctrine of extensive application1 has had its alphabet1 its rudiments1 its grammar3 at each fresh step in the path of discovery the researcher has had to work out by experiment the unknown laws which govern his discovery4 ,to attempt to introduce the world--even scientists--to any new system without previous preparation would be like giving a ,persian book to a man to read who knew nothing of the language4 ,as has been said1 we do not expect a complicated problem in the higher mathematical analysis to be solved by one who is ignorant of the elementary rules of arithmetic4 ,just as useless would it be to expect every scientist to comprehend the laws of etheric physics and etheric philosophy after having witnessed ,keely's experiments4 ,the requirement of every demonstration is that it shall give sufficient proof of the truth that it asserts4 ,a demonstration which does less than this cannot be relied upon1 and no demonstration ever made has done more4 ,the success of a demonstration is in proportion as the means applied are adequate or inadequate4 ,as different principles exist in various forms of matter1 it is quite impossible to demonstrate every truth by the same means or the same principles4 ,it is only the prejudice of ignorance which exacts that every demonstration shall be given by a prescribed canon of science2 as if the science of the present were thoroughly conversant with every principle that exists in nature4 ,yet physicists exact this1 though they must know its inadequacy4 ,mr4 ,keely does not expect more from scientists than that they should withhold their defamatory opinions of him until they have witnessed his demonstrations and acquainted themselves with his theories4 ,yet1 notwithstanding ,professor ,crooke's psychical researches and ,professor ,rcker's experiments in molecular vibration1 demonstrating that molecules seem to have a mental attribute1 a sort of expression of free will1 physicists still look upon the human organism as little more than a machine1 taking small interest in experiments which evince the dominion of spirit over matter4 ,keely's researches in this province have shown him that it is neither the electric nor the magnetic flow1 but the etheric1 which sends its current along our nerves2 that the electric and magnetic flows bear but an infinitely small ratio to the etheric flow1 both as to velocity and tenuity2 that true coincidents can exist between any mediums1--cartilage to steel1 steel to wood1 wood to stone1 and stone to cartilage2 that the same influence1 sympathetic association1 which governs all the solids holds the same control over all liquids1 and again from liquid to solid1 embracing the three kingdoms1 animal1 vegetable1 and mineral2 that the action of mind over matter thoroughly substantiates the incontrovertible laws of sympathetic etheric influence2 that the only true medium which exists in nature is the sympathetic flow emanating from the normal human brain1 governing correctly the graduating and setting-up of the true sympathetic vibratory positions in machinery1 necessary to commercial success2 that these flows come in on the order of the fifth and seventh positions of atomic subdivision1 compound inter-etheric sympathy a resultant of this subdivision2 that if metallic mediums are brought under the influence of this sympathetic flow they become organisms which carry the same influence with them that the human brain does over living physical positions1 and that the composition of metallic and that of physical organisms are one and the same thing1 although the molecular arrangement of the physical may be entirely opposite to the metallic on their aggregations2 that the harmonious chords induced by sympathetic positive vibration permeate the molecules in each1 notwithstanding1 and bring about the perfect equation of any differentiation that may exist--in one the same as in the other--and thus they become one and the same medium for sympathetic transmission2 that the etheric1 or will-flow1 is of a tenuity coincident to the condition governing the seventh subdivision of matter1 a condition of subtlety that readily and instantaneously permeates all forms of aggregated matter1 from air to solid hammered steel1 the velocity of the permeation being the same with the one as with the other2 that the tenuity of the etheric flow is so infinitely fine that a magnifying glass1 the power of which would enlarge the smallest grain of sand to the size of the sun1 brought to bear upon it would not make its structure visible to us2 and that1 light traversing space at the speed of two hundred thousand miles per second1 a distance requiring light a thousand centuries to reach would be traversed by the etheric flow in an indefinite fragment of a second4 #aath4 ,keely has given such proof of genius as should bring all scientists who approach him into that attitude of mind which would lead them to receive without prejudice the evidence of the truth of the claims he offers4 ,genius has been defined as an extraordinary power of synthetic creation4 ,another definition of the man of genius is1 the man who unceasingly cultivates and perfects such great natural aptitudes and facilities as he has been endowed with at his birth4 ,no man has ever lived on this earth who1 according to these qualifications1 so deserved to be known and acknowledged as a man of genius as ,john ,worrell ,keely4 ,history will determine whether he is a man of genius or a charlatan1 as some scientists still persist in calling him4 ,it is easier1 as has been said1 to accuse a man of fraud than to account for unknown phenomena4 ,a system of doctrine can be legitimately refuted only upon its own principles1 viz41 by disproving its facts and invalidating the principles deduced from them4 ,abercrombie said that the necessary caution which preserves us from credulity should not be allowed to engender scepticism1--that both of these extremes are equally unworthy of a mind which devotes itself with candour to the discovery of truth4 ,we must not decide that a thing is impossible1 says ,lebrun1 because of the common belief that it cannot exist2 for the opinion of man cannot set limits to the operations of ,nature1 nor to the power of the ,almighty4 ,he who attempts to hold up to contempt a scientific subject of which he is profoundly ignorant has but small pretensions to the character of a philosopher4 ,galileo said1 after pronouncing his abjuration1 ,e pur si muove 7,but it does move74 ,what signified to him the opinion of men1 when ,nature confirmed his discovery8 ,of what value were their prejudices or their wisdom in opposition to her immutable laws8 ,kedzie1 speculating upon the nature of force1 writes1 ,molecules and masses act precisely as they are acted on2 they are governed by the iron instead of the golden rule4 ,they do unto others as others have done unto them4 ,whence comes this energy8 ,not from atoms1 but from the ,creator1 in the beginning4 ,the ,duke of ,argyll says1 ,we know nothing of the ultimate seat of force4 ,science1 in the modern doctrine of the conservation of energy and the convertibility of forces1 is already getting something like a firm hold of the idea that all kinds of forces are but forms or manifestations of some one central force1 arising from one fountain-head of power4 #abth4 ,keely's researches have taught him that this one fountain-head is none other than the omnipotent and all-pervading ,will-,force of the ,almighty1 which creates1 upholds1 guides1 and governs the universe4 ,the whole world-process1 says ,von ,hartmann1 in its context is only a logical process2 but in its existence it is a continued act of will4 ,lilly says1 ,this is what physical law means4 ,reason and will are inseparably united in the universe as they are in idea4 ,if we will anything1 it is for some reason4 ,in contemplating the structure of the universe1 we cannot resist the conclusion that the whole is founded upon a distinct idea4 ,keely holds to the harmony of this distinct idea throughout creation1 and he demonstrates by vibratory machinery that all forces are indestructible1 immaterial1 homogeneous entities1 having their origin and unity in one great intelligent personal will-force4 ,were it not for this will-force eternally flowing into all created forms1 the entire universe would disappear4 ,as the workman employs his instrument to accomplish his designs1 so ,omnipotence may be said1 in all reverence1 to regulate ,his systems of worlds through and by the vibratory ether which ,he has created to serve ,his purpose4 ,well did ,hertz reason when he wrote1 ,soon the question set by modern physics will be1 ',are not all things due to conditions of ether8' ,he had never heard of the toiler on this side of the ,atlantic1 when1 after his own discovery1 in #ahhh1 that ether was imprisoned and used in every electro-magnetic engine1 without this fact having been even so much as suspected by a single scientist1 he wrote1 in the ,revue ,scientifique1 ,we have gained a greater height than ever1 and we possess a solid basis which will facilitate the ascent1 in the research of new truths4 ,the road which is open to us is not too steep1 and the next resting-point does not appear inaccessible4 ,moreover1 the crowds of researchers are full of ardour4 ,we must therefore welcome with confidence all the efforts that are being made in this direction4 ,keely has found no resting-point in his researches of a lifetime2 and1 instead of being welcomed with confidence by his fellow-researchers in science1 he has suffered at their hands more than will ever be known by his detractors4 ,keely's discoveries would have died with him1 through the calumnies of these same scientists1 as far as demonstration was concerned1 had not a company been formed1 in the early days of his inventions1 which for many years furnished him with the necessary funds1 expecting almost immediate financial success4 ,the sneers of men of science crying ,charlatan1 the ridicule of the public press1 and the denunciations of the ignorant have been mighty factors in debasing the value of the shares of the company4 ,the courage1 faith1 and contributing capacity of nearly all the stockholders have given out2 and it is fortunate that now ,mr4 ,keely's work of evolution has at last reached the point where he is able to convince those scientists of his integrity whose minds are broad enough to conform to what ,herbert ,spencer has said is the first condition of success in scientific research1--viz4 an honest receptivity1 and willingness to abandon all preconceived notions1 however cherished1 if they be found to contradict the truth4 ,keely may be said to have spent years of his valuable time in giving exhibitions whereby to raise the funds needed for his scientific researches4 ,again and again has he taken apart his various machines1 to show their interior construction to the sceptical2 and what this means1 in the attendant delay1 will be better understood when he has made known how slight a thing1 by the laws of sympathetic association1 may retard his progress for days1 even for weeks4 ,take1 for example1 his last experience with his preliminary commercial engine1 to which1 before he had completed his graduation1 he was induced1 in ,november #ahhi1 to apply a brake1 to show what resistance the vibratory current could bear under powerful friction4 ,a force sufficient to stop a train of cars1 it was estimated1 did not interfere with its running2 but under additional strain a thud was heard1 and the shaft of the engine was twisted4 ,the engine should not have been submitted to such a test until after the differentiation had been equated1 and perfect control in reversions established4 ,and yet1 so often has ,keely made what seemed to be disasters an advantage in the end1 it is possible that the interruption and delay may enable him to produce a perfect engine sooner than he would have done on this model4 ,the world will never know how many mechanical difficulties ,keely has conquered before attaining his present degree of success1 in which he thinks he has mastered all that pertains to the principle of the force that he is dealing with1 so far as necessary for commercial purposes1 the difficulties that he still has to contend with being merely the minor ones of mechanical detail4 ,the fact that so much of ,mr4 ,keely's success1 in conducting his experiments when giving exhibitions1 depends upon the complete perfection of his instruments1 is one of the strongest arguments that could be advanced in proof of the genuineness of his claims4 ,has any one ever heard of a performer in legerdemain who1 after assembling an audience to witness his tricks1 announced that something was wrong with his conjuring apparatus and that he was unable to exhibit his dexterity8 ,feats of legerdemain can be performed1 night after night1 year in and year out1 without any hitch on the part of the operator2 but all who are conversant with the failures attendant upon a certain order of experiments1 as for instance in the liquefying of oxygen gas1 will be able to appreciate the uncertainty which characterizes the action of ,mr4 ,keely's instruments at times4 ,it is only by progressive experimental research that knowledge of the laws governing ,nature's operations can be gained1 and a system evolved to perpetuate such knowledge4 ,the hypothesis of to-day must be discarded to-morrow1 if further research proves its fallacy4 ,is it not1 then1 another strong argument in favour of ,keely's integrity that1 confessing ignorance of the laws that govern the force he has discovered1 he has plodded on through all these years1 experimenting upon its nature1 with instruments of his own invention1 which from their delicate and imperfect construction are uncertain in their operations1 until he has so improved the defective machine as to make it a stepping-stone1 by which he ascends to perfection8 ,take the imperfect comparison of a ladder3 no workman can attain the summit in one effort2 he must mount step by step4 ,to quote from ,keely's writings1 ,the mathematics of vibratory etheric science1 both pure and applied1 require long and arduous research4 ,it seems to me that no man's life is long enough to cover more than the introductory branch4 ,the theory of elliptic functions1 the calculus of probabilities1 are but pygmies in comparison to a science which requires the utmost tension of the human mind to grasp4 ,but let us wait patiently for the light that will come1 that is even now dawning4 #aj ,on the #bhth of ,may1 #ahhi1 ,mr4 ,keely's workshop was visited by several men interested to see and judge for themselves of the nature of his researches4 ,among them were ,professor ,leidy1 of the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 and ,james ,m4 ,willcox1 author of ,elemental ,philosophy4 ,after seeing the experiments in acoustics1 and the production1 storage1 and discharge of the ether1 ,mr4 ,willcox remarked that no one who had witnessed all that they had seen in the line of associative vibration1 under the same advantages1 could assert any fraud on the part of ,keely without convicting himself of the rankest folly4 ,these gentlemen met ,mr4 ,keely with their minds open to conviction1 though with strong prejudices against the discovery of any unknown force4 ,they treated him as if he were all that he is1 keeping out of sight whatever doubts they may have had of the genuineness of his claims as a discoverer2 and1 in the end1 all who were present expressed their appreciation of his courtesy in answering the questions asked1 and their admiration of what he has accomplished on his unknown path4 ,in doing this1 they were simply doing justice to him and to themselves1--to that self-respect which leads men to respect the rights of others1 and to do unto others as they would be done by4 ,had they questioned ,keely's integrity1 or betrayed doubts of his honesty of purpose1 he would at once have assumed the defensive1 and would have informed them that he has no wish to conduct experiments for scientists who are ready to give their opinions of his theories before having heard them propounded1 or of his experiments before witnessing them4 ,when ,keely's system of sympathetic vibration is made known 7sympathetic seeking ,mr4 ,willcox would call it71 it will be seen how sensitive ,mr4 ,keely's instruments are to the vibrations caused by street-noises1 to vibrations of air from talking in the operating room1 to touch even1 as well as why it is that1 although he is willing to take apart and explain the construction of his instruments in the presence of investigators1 he objects to having them handled by others than himself1 after they have been harmonized1 or sensitized1 or graduated4 ,mr4 ,keely is his own worst enemy4 ,when suspected of fraud he acts as if he were a fraud2 and in breaking up his vibratory microscope and other instruments which he had been years in perfecting1 at the time he was committed to prison in #ahhh1 he laid himself open to the suspicion that his instruments are but devices with which he cunningly deceives his patrons4 ,yet these same instruments he has1 since their reconstruction1 dissected and explained to those who approached him in the proper spirit4 ,it is only when he has been subjected to insulting suspicions by arrogant scientists that he refuses to explain his theories1 and to demonstrate their truth1 as far as it is in his power to do so4 ,keely may be on the right track1 after all1 remarked an ,english scientist1 after ,prof4 ,hertz had made known his researches on the structure of ether2 for if we have imprisoned the ether without knowing it1 why may not ,keely know what he has got a hold of8 ,norman ,lockyer1 in his ,chemistry of the ,sun1 confirms ,keely's theories when he writes1 ,the law which connects radiation with absorption and at once enables us to read the riddle set by the sun and stars is1 then1 simply the law of 'sympathetic vibration4' ,it is remarkable1 says ,horace ,w4 ,smith1 that in countries far distant from each other1 different men have fallen into the same tracks of science1 and have made similar and correspondent discoveries1 at the same period of time1 without the least communication with each other4 ,so has it been in all periods of progress and in all branches of science1 from the discoveries of ,euclid and ,archimedes down to those of ,galileo and ,descartes and ,bacon1 and1 in later days1 of ,gilbert and ,newton and ,leibnitz1 then ,franklin and ,collison and ,von ,kliest and ,muschenbrck2 and now ,keely and ,hertz and ,depuy and ,rcker and ,lockyer are examples4 ,never has a discovery leading to a new system been begun and perfected by the same individual so far as ,keely is doing2 but1 as ,morley has said1 the representative of a larger age must excel in genius all predecessors4 ,the application of his discovery to the service of humanity is the aim and end of ,keely's efforts2 his success means vastly more than the most sanguine to-day venture to predict1 promising a true millennial introduction into the unseen universe1 and the glorious life that every man1 ,christian or sceptic1 optimist or pessimist1 would gladly hope for and believe possible4 7,thurston47 ,not the least among the ultimate blessings to our race which ,keely's discovery foreshadows is the deeper insight that it will bestow into the healing power of the finer forces of nature1 embracing cures of brain and nerve disorders that are now classed with incurable diseases4 ,only a partial answer has been given to the question1 ,what has ,keely done for science8 ,but enough has been said to convey some idea of the subtle nature of the force he is dealing with1 and of the cause of the delays which have again and again disappointed the inventor1 as well as the too sanguine hopes of immediate commercial success which have animated the officers and stockholders of ,the ,keely ,motor ,company4 ,keely has no secret to wrest from him4 ,instead of ,keely's ,secret1 it should be called ,nature's ,secret2 for the problem has still to be worked out1 the solution of which will make it ,keely's ,secret2 and until this problem is fully solved to the inventor's satisfaction for commercial application1 ,keely has no secret that he is not willing to disclose1 as far as it is in his power to do so4 ,,chapter ,,xii4 #ahia4 ,,vibratory ,,physics4--,,true ,,science4 ,we seem to be approaching a theory as to the construction of ether4 ,hertz has produced vibrations1 vibrating more than one hundred million times per second4 ,he made use of the principle of resonance4 ,you all understand how1 by a succession of well-timed small impulses1 a large vibration may be set up4--,prof4 ,fitzgerald4 ,dr4 ,schimmel1 in his lecture on ,the ,unity of ,nature's ,forces1 says3--,the ,greek philosophers1 ,leucippus1 ,anaxagoras1 ,democritus1 and ,aristotle1 base their philosophies on the existence of an ether and atoms4 ,according to ,spiller's system1 both ether and atoms are material4 ,the atoms are indivisible4 ,chemistry1 being based on the correctness of this statement1 forces us to accept it4 ,but we are not forced to accept it if it is proved to be false4 ,keely has now reached a stage in his researches at which he is able to demonstrate the truth of the hypotheses which he is formulating into a system2 and consequently the stage where he can demonstrate whether theories1 that have prevailed concerning the cause of physical phenomena1 are sound or without basis in fact4 ,until this stage was reached it would have been as useless to make ,mr4 ,keely's theories known1 as it would be to publish a treatise to prove that two and two make five4 ,scientific men reject all theories in physics in which there is not an equal proportion of science and mathematics1 excluding all questions of pure metaphysics4 ,they are right2 for1 until the world had undergone a state of preparation for another revelation of truth1 the man who demonstrated all that ,keely is now prepared to demonstrate would have been burned alive as a wizard4 ,to use the words of ,babcock1 one of ,keely's staunchest adherents1 in #ahhj3--,this discoverer has entered a new world1 and although an unexplored region of untold wealth lies beyond1 he is treading firmly its border1 which daily widens as with ever-increasing interest he pursues his explorations4 ,he has passed the dreary realm where scientists are groping4 ,his researches are made in the open field of elemental force1 where gravity1 inertia1 cohesion1 momentum1 are disturbed in their haunts and diverted to use2 where1 from unity of origin1 emanates infinite energy in diversified forms1 and1 to this statement ,i would add--where he is able to look from nature up to nature's ,god1 understanding and explaining1 as no man before ever understood and explained1 how simple is the mysterious way in which ,god works ,his wonders to perform4 ,mr4 ,babcock continues3--,human comprehension is inadequate to grasp the possibilities of this discovery for power1 for increased prosperity1 and for peace4 ,it includes all that relates mechanically to travel1 manufacture1 mining1 engineering1 and warfare4 ,up to within two years1 ,keely1 this discoverer of unknown laws of nature1 has been left partially to the mercy of men who were interested only in mechanical possibilities4 ,in the autumn of #ahhh1 he was led into a line of research which made the mechanical question one of secondary interest2 and yet the present results are such as to prove that on this line alone can he ever hope to attain commercial success4 ,the course then adopted has also been the means of placing his discoveries before the world1 endorsed in such a manner as to command attention to his views and theories4 ,it has been said that if extreme vicissitudes of belief on the part of men of science are evidences of uncertainty1 it may be affirmed that of all kinds of knowledge none is more uncertain than science4 ,the only hope for science is more science1 says ,drummond4 ,keely now bestows the only hope for science--more science4 ,he accounts for the non-recognition by scientists of his claims1 in these words3 ,the system of arranging introductory etheric impulses by compound chords set by differential harmonies1 is one that the world of science has never recognized1 simply because the struggles of physicists1 combating with the solution of the conditions governing the fourth order of matter1 have been in a direction thoroughly antagonistic1 and opposite to a right one4 ,it is true that luminosity has been induced by chemical antagonism1 and1 in my mind1 this ought to have been a stepping-stone towards a more perfect condition than was accepted by them2 but independent of what might be necessary to its analysis1 the bare truth remains that the conditions were isolated--robbed of their most vital essentials--by not having the medium of etheric vibration associated with them4 ,in order to subdivide the atoms in the atomic triplet1 the molecular ether1 liberated from the molecule1 is absolutely necessary to effect the rupture of the atoms2 and so on1 progressively1 in each order of ether1 molecular1 inter-molecular1 atomic1 inter-atomic1 etheric1 inter-etheric1 the ether liberated in each successive division is essential to the next subdivision4 ,the keynote of ,mr4 ,keely's researches is that the movements of elastic elements are rhythmical1 and before he had reached his present stage in producing vibrations1 on the principle of resonance1 he has had problems to solve which needed the full measure of inspiration or apperception that he has received4 ,hertz has produced vibrations about one metre long1 vibrating more than one hundred million times a second4 ,keely has produced1 using an atmospheric medium alone1 #eai1fee1fcc vibrations per second2 but1 interposing pure hydrogen gas between soap films and using it as a medium of acceleration1 he asserts that on the enharmonic third a rate of vibration may be induced which could not be set down in figures1 and could only be represented in sound colours4 ,he has invented instruments which demonstrate in many variations the colours of sound1 registering the number of necessary vibrations to produce each variation4 ,the transmissive sympathetic chord of ,b flat1 third octave1 when passing into inaudibility1 would induce billions of billions of vibrations1 represented by sound colour on a screen illuminated from a solar ray4 ,but this experiment is one of infinite difficulty1 from the almost utter impossibility of holding the hydrogen between the two films long enough to conduct the experiment4 ,keely made over #abjj trials before succeeding once in inducing the intense blue field necessary1 covering a space of six weeks1 four hours at a time daily2 and should he ever succeed in his present efforts to produce a film that will stand1 he anticipates being able to register the range of motion in all metallic mediums4 ,on this subject ,keely writes3--,the highest range of vibration ,i ever induced was in the one experiment that ,i made in liberating ozone by molecular percussion1 which induced luminosity1 and registered a percussive molecular force of #aaj1jjj lbs4 per square inch1 as registered on a lever constructed for the purpose4 ,the vibrations induced by this experiment reached over #gjj1jjj1jjj per second1 unshipping the apparatus1 thus making it insecure for a repetition of the experiments4 ,the decarbonized steel compressors of said apparatus moved as if composed of putty4 ,volume of sphere1 #ae cubic inches2 weight of surrounding metal1 #caf lbs4 ,recently some questions1 propounded to ,mr4 ,keely by a scientist1 elicited answers which the man of science admitted were clear and definite1 but no physicist could accept ,keely's assertion that incalculable amounts of latent force exist in the molecular spaces1 for the simple reason that science asserts that molecular aggregation is attended with dissipation of energy instead of its absorption4 ,the questions asked were3-- ,i4 ,in disintegrating water1 how many foot-pounds of energy have you to expend in order to produce or induce the vibratory energy in your acoustical apparatus8 ,answer4--,no foot-pounds at all4 ,the force necessary to excite disintegration when the instrument is sensitized1 both in sensitization and developments1 would not be sufficient to wind up a watch4 ,,ii4 ,what is the amount of energy that you get out of that initial amount of water1 say twelve drops1 when decomposed into ether8 ,answer4--,from twelve drops of water a force can be developed that will fill a chamber of seven pint volume no less than six times with a pressure of ten tons to the square inch4 ,,iii4 ,in other words1 if you put so many pounds of energy into vibratory motion1 how many foot-pounds do you get out of this8 ,answer4--,all molecular masses of metal represent in their interstitial molecular spaces incalculable amounts of latent force1 which1 if awakened and brought into intense vibratory action by the medium of sympathetic liberation1 would result in thousands of billions more power in foot-pounds than that necessary to awaken it4 ,the resultant development of any and all forces is only accomplished by conditions that awaken the latent energy they have carried with them during molecular aggregation4 ,if the latent force that exists in a pound of water could be sympathetically evolved or liberated up to the seventh subdivision or compound inter-etheric1 and could be stored free of rotation1 it would be in my estimation sufficient to run the power of the world for a century4 ,this statement gives another of ,keely's discoveries to the world1 viz41 that molecular dissociation does not create energy1 as men have asserted ,keely has claimed1 but supplies it in unlimited quantities1 as the product of the latent energy accumulated in molecular aggregation4 ,this is to the physicist as if ,keely had asserted that two and two make a billion1 but as a man of science1 who is held to be the scientific equal of any man in the world1 has come forward to make known that1 in his opinion1 ,keely has fairly demonstrated the discovery of a force previously unknown to science1 the discoverer at lasts feels at liberty to make public the nature of his discoveries4 ,until ,dr4 ,joseph ,leidy had taken this stand1 ,mr4 ,keely could not1 without jeopardizing his interests1 and the interests of the ,keely ,motor ,company1 have made known in what particulars his system conflicts with the systems upheld by the age in which we live4 ,after the warning given in the history of ,huxley's ,bathybius1 we may feel quite sure that if ,keely had failed to demonstrate the genuineness of his claims by actual experiment1 no scientist would have risked the world-wide reputation of a lifetime by endorsement of the discovery of an unknown force1 as ,professor ,leidy has done1 while ,keely himself was under such a cloud that1 to advocate his integrity and uphold the importance of his discovery1 has hitherto been enough to awaken doubts as to the sanity of his upholders4 ,among many others who have written of it from the standpoint of ,keely's accountability for the mistakes of the managers of the ,keely ,motor ,company--men who made no pretence of caring for anything but dividends--was one who asserted1 in the ,new ,york ,tribune1 that it was a remarkable delusion1 full of tricks too numerous to mention1 the exposure of which ought to be made to bring the ,keely craze to an end4 ,in the same journal an editorial states that ,mr4 ,keely appears to have no mechanical ingenuity1 his strong point being his ability as a collector4 ,he has one of the largest and best arranged collections of other people's money to be found in the ,united ,states4 ,having1 a number of years ago1 during a fit of temporary insanity1 constructed a machine which1 if any power on earth could start it1 would explode and pierce the startled dome of heaven with flying fragments of cog-wheels and cranks1 he now sits down calmly1 and allows this same mechanical nightmare to make his living for him4 ,this is genius2 this is ,john ,w4 ,keely2 he toils not1 neither does he spin1 but he has got an hysterical collection of crooked pipes and lob-sided wheels tied up in his back room that extract the reluctant dollar from the pocket of avarice without fail4 ,this is a specimen of the nature of the ridicule which was encountered by ,keely's upholders1 as well as by himself4 ,until ,professor ,leidy and ,dr4 ,willcox came to the front1 in ,march1 #ahij1 ,mr4 ,keely had no influential supporters1 and not one scientist could be found who was ready to encounter the wasps4 ,such is the position of all defenders of the truth in all ages2 but the torch being held aloft1 in such hands as have now seized it1 the opportunity is given to see what ,keely proclaims as truth4 ,we know that science denies the divisibility of atoms1 but ,keely affirms and demonstrates that all corpuscules of matter may be divided and subdivided by a certain order of vibration4 ,during all these years in which he has given exhibitions of the operation of his generators1 liberators1 and disintegrators1 in turn1 each being an improvement1 successively1 on the preceding one1 no one has attempted to give to the public any theory1 or even so much as a sensible conjecture1 of the origin of the force4 ,when ,mr4 ,keely was asked1 by a woman in #ahhd1 if it were not possible that he had dissociated hydrogen gas1 and that his unknown force came from that dissociation1 he replied that he thought it might be2 but he made no assertion that he had4 ,this conjecture was repeated to an ,english scientist1 who replied that he was willing to make a bet of #aj1jjjl4 that hydrogen is a simple element4 ,the same scientist says now that he should answer such a question with more caution1 and say that he had never known hydrogen to be dissociated4 ,theory and ,formula of ,aqueous ,disintegration4 ,the peculiar conditions as associated with the gaseous elements of which water is composed1 as regards the differential volume and gravity of its gases1 make it a ready and fit subject of vibratory research4 ,in submitting water to the influence of vibratory transmission1 even on simple thirds1 the high action induced on the hydrogen as contrasted with the one on the oxygen 7under the same vibratory stream71 causes the antagonism between these elements that induces dissociation4 ,the differential antagonistic range of motion1 so favouring the antagonistic thirds as to become thoroughly repellent4 ,the gaseous element thus induced and registered1 shows thousands of times much greater force as regards tenuity and volume than that induced by the chemical disintegration of heat1 on the same medium4 ,in all molecular dissociation or disintegration of both simple or compound elements1 whether gaseous or solid1 a stream of vibratory antagonistic thirds1 sixths1 or ninths1 on their chord mass will compel progressive subdivisions4 ,in the disintegration of water the instrument is set on thirds1 sixths1 and ninths1 to get the best effects4 ,these triple conditions are focalized on the neutral centre of said instrument so as to induce perfect harmony or concordance to the chord-note of the mass-chord of the instrument's full combination2 after which the diatonic and the enharmonic scale located at the top of the instrument1 or ring1 is thoroughly harmonized with the scale of ninths which is placed at the base of the vibratory transmitter with the telephone head4 ,the next step is to disturb the harmony on the concentrative thirds1 between the transmitter and disintegrator4 ,this is done by rotating the syren so as to induce a sympathetic communication along the nodal transmitter1 or wire1 that associates the two instruments4 ,when the note of the syren becomes concordant to the neutral centre of the disintegrator1 the highest order of sympathetic communication is established4 ,it is now necessary to operate the transferable vibratory negatizer1 or negative accelerator1 which is seated in the centre of the diatonic and enharmonic ring1 at the top of disintegrator1 and complete disintegration will follow 7from the antagonisms induced on the concordants by said adjunct71 in triple progression1 thus3--,first1 thirds3 ,molecular dissociation resolving the water into a gaseous compound of hydrogen and oxygen4 ,second1 sixths3 resolving the hydrogen and oxygen into a new element by second order of dissociation1 producing what ,i call1 low atomic ether4 ,third1 ninths3 ,the low atomic ether resolved into a new element1 which ,i denominate high or second atomic harmonic4 ,all these transmissions being simultaneous on the disturbance of sympathetic equilibrium by said negative accelerator4 ,example3--,taking the chord mass of the disintegrator ,b flat1 or any chord mass that may be represented by the combined association of all the mechanical parts of its structure 7no two structures being alike in their chord masses71 taking ,b flat1 the resonators of said structure are set at ,b flat first octave1 ,b flat third octave1 and ,b flat ninth octave1 by drawing out the caps of resonators until the harmony of thirds1 sixths1 and ninths are reached2 which a simple movement of the fingers on the diatonic scale1 at the head1 will determine by the tremulous action which is highly sensible to the touch1 on said caps4 ,the caps are then rigidly fixed in their different positions by set screws4 ,the focalization to the neutral centre is then established by dampening the steel rods1 on the scale at the back1 representing the thirds1 sixths1 and ninths1 drawing a piece of small gum tube over them1 which establishes harmony to the chord mass of the instrument4 ,concordance is thus effected between the disintegrator and the ninths of the scale at base of transmitters with telephonic head4 ,this scale has a permanent sympathetic one1 set on the ninth of any mass chord that may be represented1 on any and all the multiple variations of mechanical combinations4 ,in fact1 permanently set for universal accommodation4 ,the next step is to establish pure harmony between the transmitter and the disintegrator1 which is done by spinning the syren disk1 then waiting until the sympathetic note is reached1 as the syren chord1 decreasing in velocity1 descends the scale4 ,at this juncture1 the negative accelerator must be immediately and rapidly rotated1 inducing high disturbance of equilibrium between the transmitter and the disintegrator by triple negative evolution1 with the result that a force of from five to ten1 fifteen1 twenty1 and thirty thousand pounds to the square inch is evolved by the focalization of this triple negative stream on the disintegrating cell1 or chamber1 whether there be one1 two1 three1 five1 or ten drops of water enclosed within it4 ,graduation of ,machines4 ,mr4 ,keely gives a few introductory words concerning the necessary graduating of his instruments1 for effecting conditions necessary to ensure perfect sympathetic transmission1 which will serve to show how great are the difficulties that have been attendant upon getting his machines into a condition to control and equate the differentiation in molecular masses1 requiring greater skill than in researching the force of a sunbeam4 ,he writes3--,the differentiation in molecular metallic masses1 or grouping1 is brought about in their manipulations in manufacturing them for commercial uses2 in the forging of a piece of metal1 in the drawing of a length of wire1 and in the casting of a molten mass to any requisite form4 ,the nearest approach to molecular uniformity in metallic masses is in the wire drawn for commercial uses1 gold and platina being the nearest to freedom from differentiation4 ,but even these wires1 when tested by a certain condition of the first order of intensified molecular vibration for a transferring medium between centres of neutrality1 ,i find to be entirely inadequate for the transfer of concordant unition1 as between one and the other1 on account of nodal interferences4 ,we can appreciate the difficulty of converting such a medium to a uniform molecular link1 by knowing that it can be accomplished only after removing all nodal interference1 by inducing between the nodal waves a condition in which they become subservient to the inter-sympathetic vibratory molecular link of such structure or wire4 ,therefore1 it is necessary to submit the wire to a system of graduation in order to find what the combined chords of these nodal interferences represent when focalized to one general centre4 ,then the differentiation between these nodal waves and the inter-molecular link must be equated1 by what ,i call a process of vibratory induction1 so as to induce pure concordance between one and the other4 ,to elaborate on this system of graduation1 for effecting conditions necessary to ensure perfect and unadulterated transmission1 would make up a book that would take days to read and months to study4 ,the graduating of a perfectly constructed instrument1 to a condition to transmit sympathetically1 is no standard whatever for any other one that may be built1 nor ever will be1 because no concordant conditions of compound molecular aggregation can ever exist in visible groupings4 ,if it were even possible to make their parts perfectly accurate one to the other1 in regard to atmospheric displacement and weight1 their resonating qualities would still have a high rate of sympathetic variation in their molecular groupings alone4 ,if one thousand million of coins1 each one representing a certain standard value1 and all struck from the same die1 were sympathetically graduated under a vibratory subdivision of #aej1jjj1 the most amazing variation would present itself1 as between each individual coin throughout the number1 in regard to their molecular grouping and resonance4444 ,it will be realized in the future what immense difficulties have been encountered by ,mr4 ,keely in perfecting his system of graduation1 and in constructing devices for the guidance of artificers and mechanicians1 whereby those who are not as abnormally endowed as he is for his work1 can bring a proper vibratory action into play to induce positive sympathetic transmission2 as will also be realized the stupidity of the men who still seek to confine his researches to perfecting the so-called ,keely motor1 before his system is sufficiently developed to enable others to follow it up1 should his physical strength give out4 ,his system of graduating research1 when completed1 will enable men to take up the work1 not from the standard of an already completed structure that is true in its operation1 though a perfect duplicate as to size and gravity be made1 for each successively constructed machine requires a knowledge of its own conditions of sensitivity1 as regards its mass chords4 ,keely writes3-- ,that tuning forks can be so constructed as to show coincident or concordant association with each other1 is but a very weak illustration of the fact which governs pure acoustic assimilation4 ,the best only approach a condition of about a fortieth1 as regards pure attractive and propulsive receptiveness4 ,by differentiating them to concordant thirds1 they induce a condition of molecular bombardment between themselves1 by alternate changes of long and short waves of sympathy4 ,bells rung in vacuo liberate the same number of corpuscules1 at the same velocity as those surrounded by a normal atmosphere2 and hence the same acoustic force attending them1 but they are inaudible from the fact that1 in vacuo1 the molecular volume is reduced4 ,every gaseous molecule is a resonator of itself1 and is sensitive to any and all sounds induced1 whether accordant or discordant4 ,answers to ,questions4 ,the positive vibrations are the radiating or propulsive2 the negative vibrations are the ones that are attracted towards the neutral centre4 ,the action of the magnetic flow is dual in its evolutions1 both attractive and propulsive4 ,the sound vibrations of themselves have no power whatever to induce dissociation1 even in its lowest form4 ,certain differential1 dual1 triple and quadruple1 chords give introductory impulses which excite an action on molecular masses1 liquid and gaseous1 that increase their range of molecular motion and put them in that receptive state for sympathetic vibratory interchange which favours molecular disintegration2 then1 as ,i have shown1 the diatonic enharmonic is brought into play1 which further increases the molecular range of motion beyond fifty per cent4 of their diameters1 when molecular separation takes place1 giving the tenuous substance that is necessary to induce progressive subdivision4 ,this molecular gaseous substance1 during its evolution1 assumes a condition of high rotation in the sphere or tube in which it has been generated1 and becomes itself the medium1 with the proper exciters1 for further progressive dissociation4 ,the exciters include an illuminated revolving prism1 condenser1 and coloured lenses1 with a capped glass tube strong enough to carry a pressure of at least one thousand pounds per square inch4 ,to one of these caps a sectional wire of platinum and silver is attached2 the other cap is attached to the tube1 so screwed to the chamber as to allow it to lead to the neutral centre of said chamber4 ,mineral ,disintegration4 ,i have been repeatedly urged to repeat my disintegrations of quartz rock2 but it has been utterly out of my power to do so4 ,the mechanical device with which ,i conducted those experiments was destroyed at the time of the proceedings against me4 ,its graduation occupied over four years1 after which it was operated successfully4 ,it had been originally constructed as an instrument for overcoming gravity2 a perfect1 graduated scale of that device was accurately registered1 a copy of which ,i kept2 ,i have since built three successive disintegrators set up from that scale1 but they did not operate4 ,this peculiar feature remained a paradox to me until ,i had solved the conditions governing the chords of multiple masses2 when this problem ceased to be paradoxical in its character4 ,as ,i have said1 there are no two compound aggregated forms of visible matter that are1 or ever can be1 so duplicated as to show pure sympathetic concordance one to the other4 ,hence the necessity of my system of graduation1 and of a compound device that will enable anyone to correct the variations that exist in compound molecular structures2 or in other words to graduate such1 so as to bring them to a successful operation4444 ,keely4 ,disturbance of ,magnetic ,needle4 ,if ,keely's theories are correct1 science will in time classify all the important modifications of the one force in nature as sympathetic streams1 each stream composed of triple flows4 ,mr4 ,keely maintains that the static condition which the magnetic needle assumes1 when undisturbed by any extraneous force outside of its own sympathetic one1 proves conclusively that the power of the dominant third1 of the triple combination of the magnetic terrestrial envelope1 is the controlling one of this sympathetic triplet1 and the one towards which all the others co-ordinate4 ,all the dominant conditions of nature represent the focal centres towards which like surrounding ones become sympathetically subservient4 ,the rapid rotation of the magnetic needle of a compass which ,mr4 ,keely shows in his experiments1 rests entirely on the alternating of the dominant alone1 which is effected by a triple condition of vibration that is antagonistic to its harmonious flow as associated with its other attendants4 ,a rapid change of polarity is induced1 and rapid rotation necessarily follows4 ,quoting from ,keely's writings1--,the human ear cannot detect the triple chord of any vibration1 or sounding note1 but every sound that is induced of any range1 high or low1 is governed by the same laws1 as regards triple action of such1 that govern every sympathetic flow in ,nature4 ,were it not for these triple vibratory conditions1 change of polarity could never be effected1 and consequently there could be no rotation4 ,thus the compounding of the triple triple1 to produce the effect1 would give a vibration in multiplication reaching the ninth1 in order to induce subservience1 the enumeration of which it would be folly to undertake1 as the result would be a string of figures nearly a mile in length to denote it4 ,when the proper impulse is given to induce the rotation with pure alternating corpuscular action1 the conditions of action become perpetual in their character1 lasting long enough from that one impulse to wear out any machine denoting such action1 and on the sympathetic stream eternally perpetual4 ,the action of the neutral or focalizing centres represents molecular focalization and redistribution1 not having any magnetism associated with them2 but when the radiating arms of their centres are submitted to the triple compound vibratory force1 representing their mass thirds1 they become magnetic and consequently cease their rotation4 ,their rotation is induced by submitting them to three different orders of vibration1 simultaneously giving the majority to the harmonic third4 ,theory of the ,induction of ,sympathetic ,chords to excite rotation1 by vibrophonic trajection to and from centres of neutrality1 as induced and shown to ,professor ,leidy1 ,dr4 ,willcox1 and others1 on revolving globe4 ,all hollow spheres1 of certain diameters1 represent1 as per diameters and their volume of molecular mass1 pure1 unadulterated1 sympathetic resonation towards the enharmonic and diatonic thirds of any1 and in fact all1 concordant sounds4 ,in tubes it is adversely different1 requiring a definite number of them so graduated as to represent a confliction by thirds1 sixths1 and ninths1 as towards the harmonic scale4 ,when the conditions are established1 the acoustic result of this combination1 when focalized1 represents concordant harmony1 as between the chord mass of the instrument to be operated and chord mass of the tubes of resonation4 ,therefore the shortest way towards establishing pure concordance1 between any number of resonating mediums1 is by the position that ,nature herself assumes in her multitudinous arrangements of the varied forms and volumes of matter--the spherical4 ,the great difficulty to overcome1 in order to get a revolution of the said sphere1 exists in equating the interior adjuncts of same4 ,in other words1 the differentiation induced must be so equated as to harmonize and make their conditions purely concordant to the molecular mass of the sphere4 ,example3 ,suppose the chord of the sphere mass represents ,b flat1 or any other chord1 and the internal adjuncts by displacement of atmospheric volume differentiates the volume one-twentieth2 this displacement in the shell's atmospheric volume would represent an antagonistic twentieth against the shell's mass concordance1 to equate which it would be necessary to so graduate the shell's internal adjuncts as to get at the same chord2--an octave or any number of octaves that comes nearest to the concordance of the shell's atmospheric volume4 ,no intermediates between the octaves would ever reach sympathetic union4 ,we will now take up the mechanical routine as associated with adjuncts of interference1 and follow the system for chording the mechanical aggregation in its different parts1 in order to induce the transmissive sympathy necessary to perfect evolution1 and to produce revolution of the sphere or shell4 ,example4--,suppose that we had just received from the machine shop a spun shell of twelve inches internal diameter1 #acb of an inch thick1 which represents an atmospheric volume of #ijdgg cubic inches4 ,on determination by research we find the shell to be on its resonating volume ,b flat1 and the molecular volume of the metal that the sphere is composed of1 ,b natural4 ,this or any other antagonistic chord1 as between the chord mass of the shell and its atmospheric volume1 would not interfere but would come under subservience4 ,we now pass a steel shaft through its centre1 #a_/b inch in diameter1 which represents its axial rest4 ,this shaft subjects the atmospheric volume of the shell to a certain displacement or reduction1 to correct which we first register the chord note of its mass1 and find it to be antagonistic to the chord mass of the shell1 a certain portion of an octave4 ,this must be corrected4 ,the molecular volume of the shaft must be reduced in volume1 either by filing or turning1 so as to represent the first ,b flat chord that is reached by such reduction4 ,when this is done the first line of interference is neutralized1 and the condition of sympathy is as pure between the parts as it was when the globe was minus its axis4 ,there is now introduced on its axis a ring which has seven tubes or graduating resonators1 the ring being two-thirds the diameter of the globe1 the resonators three inches long and #c_/d inch diameter1 each one to be set on the chord of ,b flat1 which is done by sliding the small diaphragm in the tube to a point that will indicate ,b flat4 ,this setting then controls the metallic displacement of the metallic combination1 as also of the arms necessary to hold the ring and resonators on shaft or axis4 ,thus the second equation is established1 both on resonation and displacement4 ,we are now ready to introduce the diatonic scale ring of three octaves which is set at two-thirds of the scale antagonistic to the chord mass of the globe itself4 ,this is done by graduating every third pin of its scale to ,b flat1 thirds1 which represent antagonistic thirds to the shell's molecular mass4 ,this antagonism must be thoroughly sensitive to the chord mass of one of the hemispheres of which the globe is composed4 ,the axis of the scale ring must rotate loosely on the globe's shaft without revolving with the globe itself2 which it is prevented from doing by being weighted on one side of the ring by a small hollow brass ball1 holding about two ounces of lead4 ,the remaining work on the device is finished by painting the interior of the globe1 one hemisphere black and one white1 and attaching a rubber bulb such as is used to spray perfume1 to the hollow end of the shaft4 ,this bulb equates vibratory undulations1 thus preventing an equation of molecular bombardment on its dark side when sympathetically influenced4 ,it is now in condition to denote the sympathetic concordance between living physical organisms1 or the receptive transmittive concordance necessary to induce rotation4 ,philosophy of ,transmission and ,rotation of ,musical ,sphere4 ,the only two vibratory conditions that can be so associated as to excite high sympathetic affinity1 as between two physical organisms1 are3--,etheric chord of ,b flat1 #crd octave1 and on etheric sympathetic chords transmission ,e flat on the scale #crd1 #fths1 and #iths2 octaves harmonic2 having the #crd dominant1 the #fth enharmonic1 and the #ith diatonic4 ,the chord mass representing the musical sphere1 being the sympathetic etheric chord of ,b flat third octave1 indicated by the focalization of its interior mechanical combination1 as against the neutral sevenths of its atmospheric volume1 makes the shell highly sensitive to the reception of pure sympathetic concordance1 whether it be physical1 mechanical1 or a combination of both4 ,taking the chord mass of the different mechanical parts of the sphere and its adjuncts1 as previously explained1 when associated and focalized to represent pure concordance1 as between its atmospheric volume and sphere mass1 which means the pure unit of concordance1 we have the highest position that can be established in relation to its sympathetic susceptiveness to negative antagonism4 ,the beauty of the perfection of the laws that govern the action of ,nature's sympathetic flows is here demonstrated in all the purity of its workings1 actually requiring antagonistic chords to move and accelerate4 ,the dark side of the shell1 which represents fifty per cent4 of its full area of pure concordant harmony1 is the receptive area for the influence of the negative transmissive chords of the thirds1 sixths and ninths to bombard upon2 which bombardment disturbs the equilibrium of said sphere1 and induces rotation4 ,the rotation can be accelerated or retarded1 according as the antagonistic chords of the acoustic forces are transmitted in greater or lesser volume4 ,the action induced by the mouth organ1 transmitted at a distance from the sphere without any connection of wire1 demonstrates the purity of the principle of sympathetic transmission1 as negatized or disturbed by discordants2 which1 focalizing on the resonating sevenths of resonators1 or tubes attached to ring1 the sympathetic flow is by this means transmitted to the focalizing centre1 or centre of neutrality1 to be re-distributed at each revolution of sphere1 keeping intact the sympathetic volume during sensitization1 thus preventing the equation or stoppage of its rotation4 ,again1 the sphere resting on its journals in the ring1 as graduated to the condition of its interior combinations1 represents a pure sympathetic concordant under perfect equation ready to receive the sympathetic1 or to reject the non-sympathetic4 ,if a pure sympathetic chord is transmitted coincident to its full combination1 the sphere will remain quiescent2 but if a transmission of discordance is brought to bear upon it1 its sympathetic conditions become repellent to this discordance4444 ,keely4 ,hertz in his conjectures that a knowledge of the structure of ether should unveil the essence of matter itself1 and of its inherent properties1 weight and inertia1 is treading the path that leads to this knowledge4 ,professor ,fitzgerald says3--,ether must be the means by which electric and magnetic forces exist1 it should explain chemical actions1 and if possible gravity4 ,the law of sympathetic vibration explains chemical affinities as a sympathetic attractive1 but inherent1 force2 in short1 as gravity4 ,this opens up too wide a territory even but to peer into in the dawning light of ,keely's system of vibratory physics4 ,the boundary line is crossed1 and the crowds of researchers in electro-magnetism are full of ardour4 ,hertz constructed a circuit1 whose period of vibration for electric currents was such that he was able to see sparks1 due to the increased vibration1 leaping across a small air-space in this resonant circuit2 his experiments have proved and demonstrated the ethereal theory of electro-magnetism3--that electro-magnetic actions are due to a medium pervading all known space2 while ,keely's experiments have proved that all things are due to conditions of ether4 ,professor ,fitzgerald closes one of his lectures on ether in these words3--,there are metaphysical grounds for reducing matter to motion1 and potential to kinetic energy4 ,let us for a moment contemplate what is betokened by this theory that in electro-magnetic engines we are using as our mechanism the ether1 the medium that fills all known space4 ,it was a great step in human progress when man learnt to make material machines1 when he used the elasticity of his bow1 and the rigidity of his arrow to provide food and defeat his enemies4 ,it was a great advance when he learnt to use the chemical action of fire2 when he learnt to use water to float his boats1 and air to drive them2 when1 by artificial selection1 he provided himself with food and domestic animals4 ,for two hundred years he has made heat his slave to drive his machinery4 ,fire1 water1 earth1 and air have long been his slaves1 but it is only within the last few years that man has won the battle lost by the giants of old1 has snatched the thunderbolt from ,jove himself1 and enslaved the all-pervading ether4 ,of the experiments of ,hertz1 in inducing vibrations in ether waves1 ,professor ,fitzgerald says3 ,if we consider the possible radiating power of an atom1 we find that it may be millions of millions of times as great as ,professor ,wiedermann has found to be the radiating power of a sodium atom in a ,bunsen burner2 so if there is reason to think that any greater oscillation might disintegrate the atom1 we are still a long way from it4 ,here we have an admission that the atom may be divisible2 but the professor's conjecture is made upon an incorrect hypothesis4 ,the possible theory of ether and matter which ,professor ,fitzgerald puts forward1 in his lecture on ,electro-,magnetic ,radiation1 is in harmony with ,keely's theories4 ,this hypothesis explains the differences in nature as differences in motion1 ending3 ,can we resist the conclusion that all motion is thought8 ,not that contradiction in terms1 'unconscious thought1' but living thought2 that all nature is the language of ,one in whom we live1 and move1 and have our being8 ,this great truth the ,buddhists have taught for ages4 ,there is no such thing as blind or dead matter1 as there is no blind nor unconscious thought4 ,,chapter ,,xiii4 #ahia4 ,,more ,,science4 ,the only hope for science is more science4--,drummond4 ,philosophy must finally endeavour to be itself constructive4 ,here ,professor ,seth laid stress on the necessity of a teleological view of the universe1 not in the paltry1 mechanical sense sometimes associated with the word teleology1 but as vindicating the existence of an end or organic unity in the process of the world1 constituting it an evolution and not a series of aimless changes4444 ,as ,goethe taught1 in one of his finest poems1 we do well to recognize in the highest attributes of human-kind our nearest glimpse into the nature of the divine4 ,the part was not greater than the whole1 and we might rest assured that whatever of wisdom and goodness there was in us had not been born out of nothing1 but had its fount1 somewhere and somehow1 in a more perfect ,goodness and ,truth4--,review of ,professor ,seth's address4 ,believe nothing which is unreasonable1 and reject nothing as unreasonable without proper examination4--,gautama ,buddha4 ,i do not believe that matter is inert1 acted upon by an outside force4 ,to me it seems that every atom is possessed by a certain amount of primitive intelligence4--,edison4 ,history tells us that ,pythagoras would not allow himself to be called a sage1 as his predecessors had done1 but designated himself as a lover of wisdom2 ardent in the pursuit of wisdom1 he could not arrogate to himself the possession of wisdom4 ,yet1 in our time1 so unwilling are the searchers after wisdom to admit that there can be anything new under the sun1 anything that they do not already know1 that we find the number of men of science to be marvellously small who possess the first condition of success in scientific research1 as set down by ,herbert ,spencer1 very few who do not arrogate to themselves too much learning to permit them to admit the possibility of any new revelation of truth4 ,in every age of our world1 to meet the requirements of the age1 in its step-by-step progress from barbarism to civilization and enlightenment1 there have appeared extraordinary men1 having knowledge far in advance of the era in which they lived4 ,of such1 among many1 were ,moses1 ,zoroaster1 ,confucius1 ,plato1 and above these1 ,gautama the ,buddha4 ,but ,moses1 with all his knowledge of bacilli and bacteria1 could not have met the requirements of any later age4 ,the eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth period passed1 and ,king ,david1 who was so superior to other ,kings of marauding tribes1 that he was called a man after ,god's own heart1 satisfied his desire for punishment1 to be meted out to his personal enemies1 by prayer to ,god to put out their eyes1 and to let them fall from one wickedness to another4 ,this was a step in advance1 for it gave those who had offended him a chance to escape all such summary proceedings as ,moses had authorized4 ,still1 the time was a long way off before a greater than ,moses appeared to teach the world that such prayers are unavailing1 that we can hate sin without hating the sinner1 and that the ,alpha and ,omega of religion is to live in love and in the performance of duty4 ,the ,jewish prophets foretold the coming of ,jesus of ,nazareth2 and the interpreters of ,scripture are not alone now in having predicted that we are approaching a new dispensation1 an age of harmony1 which the twentieth century is to usher in1 according to ,biblical prophets4 ,renan has said that he envies those who shall live to see the wonders which the light of the new dawn that is breaking upon the world of science will unfold2 that those who live in this coming age will know things of which we have no conception4 ,morley1 in the spirit of prophecy1 has said that in the near future a great intellectual giant will arise to bless our globe1 who will surpass all other men of genius1 reasoning that the representative of a larger age must be greater in genius than any predecessor4 ,when the system is made known by which ,keely dissociates the molecule and atoms by successive orders of vibration1 proving two laws in physics as fallacious1 we shall not hesitate to say that the light of the new dawn has now broken upon the world of science1 and that the discoverer of the divisibility of the atom and of the absorption of energy in all molecular aggregation is the genius foretold by ,morley4 ,one quality of true genius is humility4 ,what a brain you must have6 said a man of science to ,keely1 not long since1 to have thought this all out4 ,this man of genius replied1 ,i was but the instrument of a ,higher ,power4 ,we are all instruments of a ,higher ,power1 but the instruments chosen and set apart for any special work are always choice instruments which have been fitted or adapted to that work--the furnace perhaps seven times heated before the annealing was perfected4 ,it has been said that man enters upon life as a born idiot2 and there are many who think that1 in comparison with the possibilities which the future promises in the way of the physical evolution of the race1 we are but as idiots still4 ,having reached our present stage of physical and mental development1 the history of the civilization of our race cannot but lead reflecting men and women into the opinion that the work of evolution will become more purely psychical in future4 ,after which1 as a consequence1 there can be no doubt that physical development will again take its turn2 for1 as ,tennyson has said1-- ,when reign the world's great bridals1 chaste and calm1 ,then springs the coming race that rules mankind4 ,not the least among the many applications of ,keely's discoveries will be that which will prove1 by demonstration1 whether the chord of mass in a man and woman is near enough in the octaves to be beneficial1 or so far apart as to be deteriorating4 ,there is no truer truth obtainable ,by man than comes of music4 ,the earlier processes of civilization belonged to an age of spontaneity1 of unreflective productivity2 an age that expressed itself in myths1 created religious and organized social forms and habits of life in harmony with these spontaneous creations4 ,o1 ye delicious fables6 where the wave ,and woods were peopled and the air with things ,so lovely6 ,why1 ah why1 has ,science grave ,scattered afar your sweet imaginings8 asks ,barry ,cornwall4 ,but now that we have entered upon a more advanced age in thought1 as in all things pertaining to discovery and practical application1 or invention1 a critical defining intellectual age1 we must henceforth depend upon true science for our progress toward a higher enlightenment4 ,science1 as will be seen1 embraces religion1 and must become1 as ,keely asserts1 the religion of the world1 when it is made known in all its glory and grandeur1 sweeping away all foot-holds for scepticism1 and spreading the knowledge of ,god1 as a ,god of love1 until this knowledge covers the earth as the waters cover the sea4 ,as has been said1 the word science1 in its largest signification1 includes intellectual achievement in every direction open to the mind1 and the co-ordination of the results in a progressive philosophy of life4 ,philosophy has been defined as the science of causes or of first principles1 and should be limited1 almost exclusively1 to the mental sciences4 ,this is the field which ,keely is exploring2 the knowledge of the hidden things which he is bringing to the light is pure philosophical knowledge1 in the widest acceptation of the term3 the knowledge of effects as dependent on their causes4 ,behold an infinite of floating worlds ,dividing crystal waves of ether pure ,in endless voyage without port4 ,is it not a marvel of inspiration to have been able to cast line and plummet in such a sea of knowledge1 to be able to demonstrate the power of that sympathetic outreach which1 acting from our satellite upon the waters of our oceans and seas1 through the vast space that separates it from our earth1 lifts these waters1 once in every twenty-four hours1 from their beds2 and1 as gently as a mother would lay her infant on its couch1 places them again where they rest8 ,god hath chosen1 as ,paul said1 the foolish things of the world to confound the wise2 and ,god hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty1 and base things of the world and things which are despised hath ,god chosen1 yea1 and things which are not to bring to naught things which are2 that no flesh should glory in ,his presence4 ,christ said1 ,i thank ,thee1 ,o ,father1 ,lord of heaven and earth1 because ,thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent1 and hast revealed them unto babes4 ,truth never changes2 but as new truths are revealed to us1 to meet the necessities of progress 7in our development from ignorance into the wisdom of angels71 our point of view is ever changing1 like the landscape which we look out upon from the swiftly gliding railway-carriage that bears us to our destination4 ,as yet1 ,earth has shown us only the title-page of a book that we may1 if we will1 read its first pages here1 and continue reading throughout eternity4 ,when ,bulwer wrote of a power that can replenish or invigorate life1 heal and preserve1 cure disease3 enabling the physical organism to re-establish the due equilibrium of its natural powers1 thereby curing itself1 he foreshadowed one of ,keely's discoveries4 ,once admit the possibility that the secrets of nature conceal forces yet undeveloped1 says the author of ,masollam1 which may contain a cure for the evils by which it is now afflicted1 and it is culpable timidity to shrink from risking all to discover that cure4 ,this author teaches that humanity at large has a claim higher than the claims of the blood-tie2 that a love based upon no higher sentiment1 makes us blind to the claims of duty2 and this is why1 when men or women are chosen to do a great work1 for the human family1 the ligaments which have bound them too exclusively to their own families1 are cut and torn apart4 ,no greater work has ever been committed to a man to do than that which ,keely's discoveries are preparing the way for4 ,science was rocking the world into the sleep of death--for materialism is death--its votaries declaring atoms to be eternally active1 and the intellect which had discovered the existence of these atoms to end with the life of the molecular body4 ,on this subject ,simmons has written3-- ,shall impalpable light speed so swiftly and safely through infinite space--and the mind that measures its speed1 and makes it tell its secrets in the spectroscope1 be buried with the body8 ,shall mere breath send its pulsations through the wire and1 after fifty miles of silence1 sound again in speech or music in a far-off city1 or stamp itself in the phonograph to sound again in far-off centuries--and the soul that has wrought these wonders pass to eternal silence8 ,shall physical force persist for ever--and this love1 which is the strongest force in nature1 perish8 ,it would seem wiser to trust that the infinite law1 which is everywhere else so true1 will take care of this human longing which it has made1 and fulfil it in eternal safety4 ,we make no argument1 but we cannot ignore all the intimations of immortality4 ,cyrus ,field tells us of the night when1 after his weary search for that long-lost cable two miles deep in mid-ocean1 the grapnel caught it and1 trembling with suspense1 they drew it to the deck1 hardly trusting their eyes1 but creeping to feel it and make sure it was there4 ,and when1 as they watched1 a spark soon came from a finger in ,england1 showing that the line was sound1 strong men wept and rockets rent the midnight darkness4 ,we and our world float like a ship on the mysterious sea of being1 in whose abysses the grapnel of science touches no solid line of logic connecting us to another land4 ,but now and then there come from convictions1 stronger than cables1 flashes of light bidding us trust that our dead share in divine immortality1 and are safe in the arms of ,infinite ,law and ,eternal ,love4 ,keely's demonstrations suggest the missing link between matter and mind1 the solid line of logic which may yet be laid in the widening dominion of the human mind over the forces of nature4 ,in ,keely's ,secrets1 ,no4 #i1 ,vol4 ,i4 of the ,t4,p4,s41 some of the elements of the possibilities resulting to the world from ,keely's discoveries were set down4 ,war will become an impossibility2 and1 as ,browning's poem of ,childe ,roland forecasts1 ,the ,dark ,tower of unbelief will crumble at the bugle-blast which levels its walls to their foundation1 revealing such a boundless region of research as the mind of man could never conceive were he not the offspring of the ,creator4 ,not long since1 ,mr4 ,keely was congratulated upon having secured the attention of men of science1 connected with the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 to his work of research4 ,now1 you will be known as a great discoverer1 not as ,keely the motor-man1 said one of them present2 whom he answered1 ,i have discovered so little1 in comparison with what remains to be discovered1 that ,i cannot call myself a discoverer4 ,one of the professors present took ,keely by the hand and said1 ,you are a great discoverer4 ,all thoughtful men who have witnessed the latest developments of the force displayed by ,keely1 in his researching experiments for aerial navigation1 are made to realize that more through his discoveries1 than by the progressive development of the altruistic element in humanity 7dreamed of by speculative optimists71 our race will be brought into that dispensation of peace and harmony1 anticipated by seers and foretold by prophets as the millennial age4 ,it requires no great measure of foresight to discern1 as a natural consequence of the control and application of this force in art and commerce1 that ameliorated condition of the masses which will end the mighty conflict now so blindly being waged between capital and labour4 #aa ,and to the eye of faith1 it is not difficult to look beyond the intervening ons of centuries1 to the literal fulfilment of the promise of that millennial period when men shall live in brotherly love together2 making heaven of earth as even now it is in our power to do if we live up to ,christ's command3 ,whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you1 that do ye also unto them4 ,had some of the dogmatic scientists of this age followed this command1 ,keely's discovery might have been sooner known in all its importance1 protecting him1 as their acknowledgment would have done1 from the persecutions that have operated so detrimentally against the completion of researches which should have been finished before any attempt was made to apply the discovery to commercial ends4 ,no scientist who witnessed the production of the force1 displayed by ,keely1 in a proper spirit1 but would have been welcomed by him to further experiments in its operations1 as were ,professor ,leidy and ,dr4 ,wilcox in #ahhi4 ,so1 in truth1 those who printed their edicts against ,keely about ten years since are1 in part1 responsible for the loss to the world which this long delay has occasioned4 ,still1 in view of the acknowledged fact that not one of the great laws which science now accepts as incontrovertible truths1 but was vehemently denied by the scientists of its time1 declared to be a priori impossible2 its discoverers and supporters denounced as fools or charlatans1 and even investigation refused as being a waste of time and thought2 it would be too much to expect from the thinkers of this age any greater degree of readiness to investigate claims1 that threatened to demolish their cherished notions1 than characterized their predecessors4 ,but the time was not ripe for the disclosure3 ,god never hurries4 ,he counts the centuries as we count the seconds1 and the nearer that we approach to the least comprehension of ,his underlying purpose1 the better fitted are we to do the work ,he assigns us1 while waiting patiently for our path of duty to be made clear to us2 like the labourer1 in ,tolstoi's ,confession1 who completed the work that had been laid out for him1 without understanding what the result would be1 and unable to judge whether his master had planned well4 ,if the prophecies of ,scripture are fulfilled1 the twentieth century will usher in the commencement of that age in which men and women will become aware of the great powers which they inherit1 and of which ,oliphant has said that we are so ignorant that we wholly fail to see them1 though they sweep like mighty seas throughout all human nature4 ,what is the character of these powers which ,oliphant has written so eloquently concerning8 ,can we not form an inference from ,st4 ,paul's most precious and deeply scientific context1 in which he introduced the quotation from the ,greek poet ,aratus1 who was well known in ,athens1 having studied there8 ,if we are the offspring of ,god1 how rich must be our inheritance6 ,if we are the children of ,god1 why do we not trust our ,father8 ,but this is not science6 ,a philosopher has said that if ever a human being needed divine pity1 it is the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods4 ,scientists will have to admit1 in the light of ,keely's discoveries1 that the sensibility and intelligence1 which confer upon us our self-directive power1 do not have their origin in our molecular structures4 ,that they take their first beginning in matter is one of the most inadequate conceptions that was ever proposed for scientific belief4 ,if it were so1 we could not claim to be the offspring of ,god1 who is the ,fountain of all life1 the ever living1 from whom1 as ,his very kind1 we inherit this self-directive power2 not the molecular bodies which are our clothing4 ,god is our ,father4 ,the material structure is the mother and nurse4 ,the hypothesis that there are no beings in the universe but those which possess molecular bodies1 is the conjecture of a mind that has no conception of the illimitable power of the ,almighty4 ,the link1 which connects mind with matter1 gives us a higher conception of the ,deity4 ,keely places it in the mind flow1 the result of the sixth subdivision4 ,when we are done with the things of ,time1 and not before1 we are ready to rise out of our molecular bondage into the freedom we inherit as heirs of ,god and co-heirs with ,christ of sonship with the ,father4 ,the problem of the origin of life would become a matter of easy analysis1 writes ,keely1 if the properties governing the different orders of matter could be understood in their different evolutions4 ,disturbance of equilibrium is the prime mover1 aggregator and disperser of all forces that exist in nature4 ,the force of the mind on matter is a grand illustration of the power of the finer over the crude1 of the etheric over the molecular4 ,if the differential forces of the brain could become equated1 eternal perpetuity would be the result4 ,under such a condition the physical would remain free of disintegration or decomposition4 ,but the law1 laid out by the ,great ,master1 which governs the disturbance of equilibrium1 making the crude forms of matter subservient to the finer or higher forms1 forbidding anything molecular or terrestrial to assimilate with the high etheric1 the law that has fixed the planets in their places1 is an unknown law to the finite mind1 comprehended only by the ,infinite ,one4444 ,some of our men of science once settled the problem of the origin of life to their own satisfaction1 only to learn that speculation is not science2 for a substance which1 when dissolved1 crystallizes as gypsum1 cannot produce vital force2 and it is like groping among the bones of a graveyard to look for spontaneous generation in a shining heap of jelly on the floor of the sea4 ,when our learned men are forced to admit that all motion is thought1 that all nature is the language of ,one in whom we live1 and are moved1 and have our being1 the attempts to evolve life out of chemical elements will cease2 the ,mosaic records will no longer be denied1 which tell us that the ,creator's law for living organisms is that each plant seeds1 and each animal bears1 after its kind2 not that each seeds and bears after another kind4 ,the doctrine of evolution1 as made known to us in ,geology1 is a fundamental truth2 proving that there has been a plan1 glorious in its scheme1 perfect in system1 progressing through unmeasured ages1 and looking ever toward man and a spiritual end4 ,the ,rev4 ,john ,andrew1 in his ,thoughts on the ,evolution ,theory of ,creation1 mentions that ,haeckel gives the pedigree of man from primeval moneron in twenty-two stages4 ,stage twenty is the man-like ape2 stage twenty-one is the ape-like man2 stage twenty-two is the man2 but he confesses that the twenty-first stage--the ape-like man--is entirely wanting in all the records4 ,there is no missing link in the evolution theory1 as laid down in ,keely's pure philosophy4 ,inasmuch as the ,father of all is ,himself a ,spiritual ,being1 cosmical law leads us to expect that the type of created being1 ,his offspring1 shall be spirit also4 ,nor can ,being in any object be so attenuated1 or so far removed from ,him who filleth all in all1 but it must surely retain an aura of ,his spiritual nature4 ,the corner-stone of this philosophy is one power1 one law2 order and method reigning throughout creation2 spirit controlling matter1 as the ,divine order and law of creation that the spiritual should govern the material--that the whole realm of matter should be under the dominion of the world of spirit4 ,nor is this a new truth4 ,according to ,diogenes ,lartius1 ,thales taught that souls are the motive forces of the universe4 ,empedocles affirms that spiritual forces move the visible world4 ,virgil asserted that mind animates and moves the world2 that the spiritual realm is the soul of the universe4 ,the universe is not a mass of dead matter1 says ,gilbert 7in his work1 ,de ,magnate71 but is pervaded with this soul1 this living principle1 this unseen cause of all visible phenomena1 underlying all movements in the earth beneath and in the heavens above4 ,joseph ,cook affirms that as science progresses it draws nearer in all its forms to the proof of the spiritual origin of force--that is of the ,divine immanence in natural law3 and that ,god was not transiently present in nature--that is in a mere creative moment2 nor has ,he left the world in a state of orphanage1 bereft of a deific influence and care1 but ,he is immanent in nature1 as the ,apostle ,paul and ,aratus and ,spinoza declared4 ,as certainly as the unborn infant's life is that of the mother1 so is it divinely true that somehow ,god's life includes ours2 and we shall understand the nature of that relationship when1 in due time1 we have been born again into the life of the spirit4 ,the economy of creation is not regarded in this philosophy as a theory of development all in one direction2 but as a cycle in which1 after development1 and as its fruit1 the last term gives again the first4 ,herein is found the link by which the law of continuity is maintained throughout--the link which is missing in the popular science of the day2 with this very serious consequence that1 to keep the break out of sight1 the entire doctrine of spirit and the spiritual world is ignored or altogether denied4 ,science admits that nature works with dual force1 though at rest she is a unit4 ,nature is one eternal circle4 ,keely's discoveries prove that the doctrine of the ,trinity should be set down as an established canon of science--the ,trinity of force4 ,all nature's sympathetic streams--cerebellic1 gravital1 electric and magnetic--are made up of triple currents4 ,the ancients understood this dogma in a far deeper sense than modern theology has construed it4 ,the great and universal ,trinity of cause1 motion and matter--or of will1 thought and manifestation--was known to the ,rosicrucians as prima materia4 ,paracelsus states that each of these three is also the other two2 for1 as nothing can possibly exist without cause1 matter and energy--that is1 spirit1 matter and soul 7the ultimate cause of existence being that it exists71 we may therefore look upon all forms of activity as being the action of the universal or ,divine will operating upon and through the ether1 as the skilled artificer uses his tools to accomplish his designs2 making the comparison in all reverence4 ,the existence of an intelligent ,creator1 a personal ,god1 can to my mind1 almost be proved from chemistry1 writes ,edison2 and ,george ,parsons ,lathrop1 in commenting upon ,edison's belief1 says3--,surely it is a circumstance calculated to excite reflection1 and to cause a good deal of satisfaction1 that this keen and penetrating mind1 so vigorously representing the practical side of ,american intelligence--the mind of a remarkable exponent of applied science1 and of a brilliant and prolific inventor who has spent his life in dealing with the material part of the world--should so confidently arrive at belief in ,god through a study of those media that often obscure the perception of spiritual things4 ,edison1 it seems1 like ,keely1 has never been discouraged by the obstacles which he meets with1 in his researches1 nor even inclined to be hopeless of ultimate success4 ,unlike ,keely1 ,edison through all his years of experimental research has never once made a discovery4 ,all the work of this great and successful inventor has been deductive1 and the results achieved by him have been simply those of pure invention4 ,like ,keely he constructs a theory1 and works on its lines until he finds it untenable2 then1 he at once discards it and forms another theory4 ,in connection with the electric light1 he evolved or constructed three thousand successive theories2 each one reasonable and apparently likely to be true2 yet1 only in two cases was he able to prove by experiment that his theories were correct4 ,of such a nature is the dead-work which all researchers on scientific principles must toil through to attain success4 ,they must keep their minds open to every suggestion or idea1 no matter how fanciful it may seem to others1 and they must never let go their hold of it until it has been tested in all its possibilities4 ,the same words which ,lathrop uses1 in describing ,edison's characteristics1 are equally applicable to ,keely1 who1 in addition to his native endowment of a genius for science and mechanics1 brings to bear vast patience in logical deduction1 careful calculation1 unlimited experiment1 a ceaseless industry1 and a persistence which refuses to be discouraged4 ,edison has said that he does not philosophize4 ,like ,general ,grant1 he is a man of action4 ,when asked what theory he held upon a subject under discussion1 ,general ,grant replied1 ,i never theorize3 when there is anything to be done1 ,i do it4 #ab ,edison is always doing something which the public can see and appreciate1 but1 unlike ,keely1 he has no system to work out and transmute into the pure philosophy which is now revealing to the world the further link in the chain of causation1 the cause of the cause1 which hitherto has rather been assumed than demonstrated4 ,if we believe1 says ,professor ,sir ,g4 ,g4 ,stokes1 that what are called the natural sciences spring from the same supreme source as those which are concerned with morals and ,natural ,theology in general1 we may expect to find broad lines of analogy between the two2 and thus it may conceivably happen that the investigations1 which belong to natural science1 may here and there afford us hints with respect even to the moral sciences1 with which at first sight they might appear to have no connection4 ,and if such are to be found1 perhaps they are more likely to be indicated by one whose studies have lain mainly in the direction of those natural sciences than by one whose primary attention has been devoted to moral subjects4 ,mr4 ,keely's first discovery of an unknown force and the releasing of an unknown energy seemed to be by accident2 and most certainly no one could then have foreseen that his researches in physical science would lead him on step by step1 and very slow steps they have been1 to such important findings4 ,in the pursuit of physical science he encountered paradoxes and anomalies1 the study of which led him on to fresh discoveries whereby he has been able to extend the boundary of ascertained truth and separate the wheat of science from the chaff4 ,the late ,dr4 ,macvicar said when he considered how difficult he had found it to believe that such insight into nature as his views imply is possible to be attained1 he was not so unreasonable as to expect that others would1 in his time1 regard them even as probable1 much less as proved4 ,he expressed himself as content with the private enjoyment which these views imparted to himself1 especially as that enjoyment is not merely the gratification of a chemical curiosity1 but attaches to a much larger field of thought4 ,one of the points to which he refers1 as possessing great value to his own mind1 is the place which his investigation assigns to material nature in the universe of being4 ,he says that it is much the fashion in the present day to regard matter and force1 more shortly matter1 as all in all4 ,but1 according to the view of things which has presented itself to both of these men1 matter comes out rather as a precipitate in the universal ether1 determined by a mathematical necessity2 a grand and beautiful cloud-work in the realm of light1 bounded on both sides by a world of spirits2 on the upper and anterior side1 by the great ,creator ,himself1 and the hierarchy of spirits to which ,he awarded immediate existence2 and on the lower and posterior side1 by that world of spirits of which the material body is the mother and nurse4 ,macvicar says the hypothesis that there are no beings in the universe but those which possess a molecular structure1 and that sensibility and intelligence take their first beginnings in such structures1 is one of the most inadequate conceptions that was ever proposed for scientific belief4 ,science is not only very blind1 but glories in her blindness4 ,she gropes among the dead seeking the origin of life1 instead of going to the ,fountain of all life1 the ,ever ,living1 as ,dr4 ,macvicar and ,keely have done4 ,in theorizing on the philosophy of planetary suspension ,mr4 ,keely writes3 ,as regards planetary volume1 we would ask in a scientific point of view--,how can the immense difference of volume in the planets exist without disorganizing the harmonious action that has always characterized them8 ,i can only answer this question properly by entering into a progressive synthesis1 starting on the rotating etheric centres that were fixed by the ,creator with their attractive or accumulative power4 ,if you ask what power it is that gives to each etheric atom its inconceivable velocity of rotation1 or introductory impulse1 ,i must answer that no finite mind will ever be able to conceive what it is4 ,the philosophy of accumulation1 assimilation1 ,macvicar calls it1 is the only proof that such a power has been given4 ,the area1 if we can so speak of such an atom1 presents to the attractive or magnetic1 the elective or propulsive1 all the receptive force and all the antagonistic force that characterizes a planet of the largest magnitude2 consequently1 as the accumulation goes on1 the perfect equation remains the same4 ,when this minute centre has once been fixed1 the power to rend it from its position would necessarily have to be as great as to displace the most immense planet that exists4 ,when this atomic neutral centre is displaced1 the planet must go with it4 ,the neutral centre carries the full load of any accumulation from the start1 and remains the same1 for ever balanced in the eternal space4 ,mr4 ,keely illustrates his idea of a neutral centre in this way3--,we will imagine that1 after an accumulation of a planet of any diameter--say1 #bj1jjj miles more or less1 for the size has nothing to do with the problem--there should be a displacement of all the material1 with the exception of a crust #ejjj miles thick1 leaving an intervening void between this crust and a centre of the size of an ordinary billiard ball1 it would then require a force as great to move this small central mass as it would to move the shell of #ejjj miles thickness4 ,moreover1 this small central mass would carry the load of this crust for ever1 keeping it equi-distant2 and there could be no opposing power1 however great1 that could bring them together4 ,the imagination staggers in contemplating the immense load which bears upon this point of centre1 where weight ceases4 ,this is what we understand by a neutral centre4 ,again1 ,mr4 ,keely1 in explanation of the working of his engine1 writes3--,in the conception of any machine heretofore constructed1 the medium for inducing a neutral centre has never been found4 ,if it had1 the difficulties of perpetual-motion seekers would have ended1 and this problem would have become an established and operating fact4 ,it would only require an introductory impulse of a few pounds1 on such a device1 to cause it to run for centuries4 ,in the conception of my vibratory engine1 ,i did not seek to attain perpetual motion2 but a circuit is formed that actually has a neutral centre1 which is in a condition to be vivified by my vibratory ether1 and while under operation1 by said substance1 is really a machine that is virtually independent of the mass 7or globe71 and it is the wonderful velocity of the vibratory circuit which makes it so4 ,still1 with all its perfection1 it requires to be fed with the vibratory ether to make it an independent motor4444 ,alluding to his illustration of a neutral centre1 ,mr4 ,keely says3--,the man who can1 even in a simple way1 appreciate this vast problem has been endowed by the ,creator with one of the greatest gifts which ,he can bestow upon a mortal4 ,it is well known that all structures require a foundation in strength according to the weight of the mass they have to carry1 but the foundations of the universe rest on a vacuous point far more minute than a molecule2 in fact1 to express this truth properly1 on an inter-etheric point1 which requires an infinite mind to understand4 ,to look down into the depths of an etheric centre is precisely the same as it would be to search into the broad space of heaven's ether to find the end2 with this difference1 that one is the positive field1 while the other is the negative field4444 ,again1 ,mr4 ,keely gives some suggestive thoughts as follows3--,in seeking to solve the great problems which have baffled me1 from time to time1 in my progressive researches1 ,i have often been struck by the fact that ,i have1 to all seeming1 accidentally tripped over their solution4 ,the mind of man is not infinite1 and it requires an infinite brain to evolve infinite positions4 ,my highest power of concentration failed to attain the results which1 at last1 seeming accident revealed4 ,god moves in a mysterious way ,his wonders to perform2 and if ,he has chosen me as the tool to carve out certain positions1 what credit have ,i8 ,none2 and1 though it is an exalting thought that ,he has singled me out for a specific work1 ,i know that the finest tool is of no value without a manipulator4 ,it is the artist who handles it that makes it what it is4 ,indifference to the marvels which surround us is a deep reproach4 ,if we have neither leisure nor inclination to strive to unravel some of the mysteries of nature1 which task to the utmost the highest order of human intelligence1 we can at least exercise and improve our intellectual faculties by making ourselves acquainted with the operation of agencies already revealed to man2 learning1 by the experience of the past1 to be tolerant of all truth2 remembering that one of ,nature's agencies1 known once as of use only in awakening men's minds to an awful sense of the ,creator's power1 has now become a patient slave of man's will1 rushing upon his errands with the speed of light around the inhabited globe4444 ,in comparing the tenuity of the atmosphere with that of the etheric flows1 obtained by ,mr4 ,keely from his invention for dissociating the molecules of air by vibration1 he says1 ,it is as platina to hydrogen gas4 ,molecular separation of air brings us to the first subdivision only2 inter-molecular1 to the second2 atomic1 to the third2 inter-atomic1 to the fourth2 etheric1 to the fifth2 and inter-etheric1 to the sixth subdivision1 or positive association with luminiferous ether4 ,in my introductory argument ,i have contended that this is the vibratory envelope of all atoms4 ,in my definition of atom ,i do not confine myself to the sixth subdivision1 where this luminiferous ether is developed in its crude form1 as far as my researches prove4 ,i think this idea will be pronounced1 by the physicists of the present day1 a wild freak of the imagination4 ,possibly1 in time1 a light may fall upon this theory that will bring its simplicity forward for scientific research4 ,at present ,i can only compare it to some planet in a dark space1 where the light of the sun of science has not yet reached it4444 ,i assume that sound1 like odour1 is a real substance of unknown and wonderful tenuity1 emanating from a body where it has been induced by percussion1 and throwing out absolute corpuscles of matter--inter-atomic particles--with a velocity of #aabj feet per second1 in vacuo #bj1jjj4 ,the substance which is thus disseminated is a part and parcel of the mass agitated1 and if kept under this agitation continuously would1 in the course of a certain cycle of time1 become thoroughly absorbed by the atmosphere2 or1 more truly1 would pass through the atmosphere to an elevated point of tenuity corresponding to the condition of subdivision that governs its liberation from its parent body4 ,the sounds from vibratory forks1 set so as to produce etheric chords1 while disseminating their compound tones permeate most thoroughly all substances that come under the range of their atomic bombardment4 ,the clapping of a bell in vacuo liberates these atoms with the same velocity and volume as one in the open air2 and were the agitation of the bell kept up continuously for a few millions of centuries1 it would thoroughly return to its primitive element4 ,if the chamber were hermetically sealed1 and strong enough1 the vacuous volume surrounding the bell would be brought to a pressure of many thousands of pounds to the square inch1 by the tenuous substance evolved4 ,in my estimation1 sound truly defined is the disturbance of atomic equilibrium1 rupturing actual atomic corpuscles2 and the substance thus liberated must certainly be a certain order of etheric flow4 ,under these conditions is it unreasonable to suppose that1 if this flow were kept up1 and the body thus robbed of its element1 it would in time disappear entirely8 ,all bodies are formed primitively from this high tenuous ether1 animal1 vegetable and mineral1 and they only return to their high gaseous condition when brought under a state of differential equilibrium4 ,as regards odour1 continues ,mr4 ,keely1 we can only get some definite idea of its extreme and wondrous tenuity by taking into consideration that a large area of atmosphere can be impregnated for a long series of years from a single grain of musk2 which1 if weighed after that long interval1 will be found to be not appreciably diminished4 ,the great paradox attending the flow of odorous particles is that they can be held under confinement in a glass vessel6 ,here is a substance of much higher tenuity than the glass that holds it1 and yet it cannot escape4 ,it is as a sieve with its meshes large enough to pass marbles1 and yet holding fine sand which cannot pass through2 in fact1 a molecular vessel holding an atomic substance4 ,this is a problem that would confound those who stop to recognize it4 ,but infinitely tenuous as odour is1 it holds a very crude relation to the substance of subdivision that governs a magnetic flow 7a flow of sympathy1 if you please to call it so74 ,this subdivision comes next to sound1 but is above sound4 ,the action of the flow of a magnet coincides somewhat to the receiving and distributing portion of the human brain1 giving off at all times a depreciating ratio of the amount received4 ,it is a grand illustration of the control of mind over matter1 which gradually depreciates the physical till dissolution takes place4 ,the magnet on the same ratio gradually loses its power and becomes inert4 ,if the relations that exist between mind and matter could be equated1 and so held1 we would live on in our physical state eternally1 as there would be no physical depreciation4 ,but this physical depreciation leads1 at its terminus1 to the source of a much higher development--viz41 the liberation of the pure ether from the crude molecular2 which in my estimation is to be much desired4 ,thus ,god moves in a simple way ,his wonders to perform4444 ,when my theoretical expos is finished and brought out1 ,i shall be ready for the attacks that will be made upon it1 and able to demonstrate what ,i assert4 ,one would think that modern physicists1 knowing the lesson taught by the disastrous overthrow of the primitive system of astronomy1 would be somewhat cautious in reference to jeering at any announcement of scientific research1 however preposterous1 without first carefully weighing its claims4 ,it is my belief that there are many to-day who occupy positions as professors in our colleges and in universities abroad1 who for bigotry and ignorance can discount the opinion of the religionists of the dark ages2 but those to whom has been given mental force to boldly investigate new truths in science may congratulate themselves upon the fact that there are investigators of truth who are not afraid to acknowledge its claims1 in whatever garb it may appear1 welcoming whatever new message it may have to deliver4444 ,professor ,rcker1 in closing his address read at the meeting of the ,british ,association in #ahia1 said3-- ,in studies such as these we are passing from the investigation of the properties of ordinary matter to those of the ether1 which may perhaps be the material of which matter is composed4 ,we may some day be able to control and use it1 as we now control and use steam4 ,for nearly fifteen years1 ,keely constructed engines of various models1 with this end in view1 before he discovered that it is impossible to use the ether in any other way than as a medium for the energy that he is now experimenting with2 and which he defines1 in its present operation1 as a condition of sympathetic vibration associated with the polar stream positively and negatively4 ,should ,keely succeed in controlling and directing this subtle energy1 we shall then be able to hook our machinery on to the machinery of nature4 ,a writer in the ,nineteenth ,century says1--,whether the molecules or particles of what we know as matter are independent matter1 or whether they are ether-whirlpools2 we know that they keep up an incessant hammering one on another1 and thus on everything in space4 ,professor ,crookes has shown that the forces contained in this bombardment are immensely greater than any forces we have yet handled4444 ,it has also been found that the vibrations keep time in some unknown way with the vibrations of solid matter4 ,thus it is seen that ,keely is not the only man of science who is trying to effect a passage over the untrodden wild lying between acoustics and music3 that ,siberian bog where whole armies of scientific musicians and musical men of science have sunk1 without filling it up4 ,helmholtz1 it is said1 has1 by a series of daring strides1 made a passage for himself2 while ,keely stands alone in seeking to build a solid causeway2 over which all the nations of the earth may pass in safety1 to the new order of things1 that lies in this land of promise4 ,,chapter ,,xiv4 ,,vibratory ,,physics4--,,the ,,connecting ,,link ,,between ,,mind ,,and ,,matter4 ,the elements of ,nature are made of the will of ,god4--,hermes ,trismegistus4 ,newton and ,faraday have indicated how force instead of leaping over nothing1 acting at a distance1 is transmitted consecutively through the ethereal substance4 ,we must become as little children1 not presuming to think of causes efficient1 or causes final2 for these are things we cannot grasp2 but reverently and patiently waiting until1 like a revelation1 the hidden link between the familiar and the unfamiliar flashes into our mind1 and thus an additional step is gained in the endless series of successive generalizations4--,the ,rev4 ,h4 ,w4 ,watson1 ,f4,r4,s41 ,president of the ,birmingham ,philosophical ,society4 ,all truth comes by inspiration4--,scripture4 ,there is but one ,deity1 the ,supreme ,spirit3 he is of the same nature as the soul of man4-- ,vedic ,theology4 ,as for truth it endureth and is always strong1 it liveth and conquereth for evermore4--,esdras4 ,everything happens according to the will of ,god and has its appointed time1 which can neither be hastened nor avoided4--,mohammed4 ,in the paper of the ,rev4 ,h4 ,w4 ,watson1 on ,the ,progress of ,science1 its ,conditions and ,limitations1 he tells us that every thinking man recognizes the subjective ,self and the objective non-,self1 and that this non-,self1 so far as it manifests its existence through the senses1 is the object of investigation of natural philosophers2 but he admits that their investigations have not bestowed upon modern science any results to justify the language of causation4 ,universal gravitation is declared to be a vast generalization1 telling us that there is no more1 but yet just as much1 of mystery in the whole sequence of astronomical phenomena1 as in the most humdrum processes of every-day experiences4 ,the unfamiliar has been explained by the familiar1 and both remain in their original mystery4 ,the mystery1 attendant upon gravitation1 ,kepler prophesied would be revealed to man in this age3 and the cautious and inductive investigations which ,keely has been pursuing1 since #ahhh1 have enabled him to demonstrate that the unknown force1 which for fifteen years had baffled all his skill1 is the same condition of sympathetic vibration which controls nature's highest and most general operations3--the identical force which ,faraday divined when he wrote1 in #ahcf3 ,thus1 either present elements are the true elements1 or else there is the probability before us of obtaining some more high and general power of nature even than electricity1 and which at the same time might reveal to us an entirely new grade of the elements of matter1 now hidden from our view and almost from our suspicion4 ,it was good advice given by the late ,professor ,clifford1--,before teaching any doctrine wait until the nature of the evidence can be understood4 ,but without attempting to teach ,keely's system of vibratory physics1 we may look into some of his views1 notwithstanding the fact that1 whatever truths there may be in them1 they are approached from such a different standpoint1 than that of the platform of mechanical physics1 that it is utterly impossible to bring them into any definite relations with each other4 #ac ,dr4 ,grard1 of ,paris1 in his work on ,nervous ,force1 writes of this founder of a new system of philosophy3 ,the force discovered by ,keely appears to me to be so entirely the counterpart of what passes primarily in the brain cells that we see in him but a plagiarist of cerebral dynamics--that is1 he has had but to copy the delicate human mechanism to make a wonderful discovery2 probably1 the greatest the world has ever known4 ,the word plagiarist has no deprecatory meaning as applied to the great ,american inventor1 for he must possess an extraordinary power of assimilation to read so fluently the open book of nature1 and to be able wisely to interpret her admirable laws3 it is1 therefore1 with profound admiration that ,i here render homage to this man of science4 ,dr4 ,grard's work treats of the production of electricity in the nerve centres1 and its accumulation in storage4 ,he says that fifty years ago it would have been difficult to explain this fact intelligently2 but thanks to the scientific progress of the period1 everyone now knows how electricity is produced1 and how applied1 to use in lighting our houses4 ,he continues3 ,let us say1 then1 in few words1 how matters stand1 for it will serve to illustrate how it is with our brain1 the mechanism of which is precisely the same--only that our apparatus is much more perfect and much less costly4 ,a dynamo-electric machine is placed at any given spot2 its object1 being put in action1 is to withdraw from the earth its neutral electricity1 to decompose it into its two conditions and to collect1 upon accumulators1 the electricity thus separated4 ,as soon as the accumulators are charged1 the electricity is disposable2 that is1 our lamps can be lighted4 ,but what is marvellous in all this is that the forces of nature can be transformed at will4 ,should we not wish for light1 we turn a knob and we have sound1 heat1 motion1 chemical action1 magnetism4 ,little seems wanting to create intelligence1 so entirely do these accumulated forces lend themselves to all the transformations which their engineer may imagine and desire4 ,but let us consider how greatly superior is our cerebral mechanism to all invented mechanism4 ,in order to light a theatre we require a wide space1 a dynamo-electric machine of many horse-power1 accumulators filling many receptacles1 a considerable expense in fuel1 and clever mechanicians4 ,in the human organism these engines are in miniature1 one dcimtre cube is all the space occupied by our brain2 no wheels1 no pistons1 nothing to drive the apparatus1 we suffice ourselves4 ,in this sense1 each of us can say1 like the philosopher ,biaz3--,omnia mecum porto4 ,our cerebral organ not only originates motion1 heat1 sound1 light1 chemical actions1 magnetism2 but it produces psychic forces1 such as will1 reasoning1 judgment1 hatred1 love1 and the whole series of intellectual faculties4 ,they are all derived from the same source1 and are always identical to each other1 so long as the cerebral apparatus remains intact4 ,the variations of our health alone are capable of causing a variation in the intensity and quality of our productions4 ,with a maximum of physical and moral health1 we produce a maximum of physical and moral results4 ,our manual labour and our intellectual productions are always exactly proportionate to the integrity of our mechanism4 ,dr4 ,grard has1 it will be seen1 grasped the same truth that ,buckle enunciated in his lecture1 ,the ,influence of ,women on the ,progress of ,knowledge1 when he affirmed that not one single discovery that had ever been made has been connected with the laws of the mind that made it3 declaring that until this connection is ascertained our knowledge has no sure basis1 as the laws of nature have their sole seat1 origin1 and function in the human mind4 ,this is the foundation stone of vibratory physics1 that all force is mind force4 ,all the forces of nature1 writes ,keely1 proceed from the one governing force2 the source of all life1 of all energy4 ,these sympathetic flows1 or streams of force1 each consists of three currents1 harmonic1 enharmonic1 and dominant2 this classification governing all orders of positive and negative radiation4 ,the sympathetic flow called ,animal ,magnetism is the transmissive link of sympathy in the fourth1 or inter-atomic1 subdivision of matter4 ,it is the most intricate of problems to treat philosophically2 isolated as it is from all approach by any of the prescribed rules in the orthodox scheme of physics4 ,it turns upon the interchangeable subdivision of inter-atomic acting agency1 or the force of the mind4 ,the action of this etheric flow1 in substances of all kinds1 is according to the character of the molecular interferences which exist in the volume of their atomic groupings4 ,these interferences proceed from some description of atomic chemical nature1 which tend to vary the uniformity of structure in the atomic triplets of each molecule4 ,if these groupings were absolutely uniform there would be but one substance in nature1 and all beings inhabiting this globe would be simultaneously impressed with the same feelings and actuated by the same desires2 but nature has produced unlimited variety4 ,science1 as yet1 has not made so much as an introductory attempt to solve this problem of the mind flow1 but has left it with the hosts of impostors1 who always beset any field that trenches on the land of marvel4 ,professor ,olive ,lodge1 in his address before the ,british ,association1 at ,cardiff1 said3 ,let me try to state what this field is1 the exploration of which is regarded as so dangerous4 ,i might call it the borderland of physics and psychology4 ,i might call it the connection between life and energy2 or the connection between mind and matter4 ,it is an intermediate region1 bounded on the north by psychology1 on the south by physics1 on the east by physiology1 and on the west by pathology and medicine4 ,an occasional psychologist has groped down into it and become a metaphysician4 ,an occasional physicist has wandered up into it and lost his base1 to the horror of his quondam brethren4 ,biologists mostly look at it askance1 or deny its existence4 ,a few medical practitioners1 after long maintenance of a similar attitude1 have begun to annex a portion of its western frontier4444 ,why not leave it to the metaphysicians8 ,i say it has been left to them long enough4 ,they have explored it with insufficient equipment4 ,their methods are not our methods2 they are unsatisfactory to us1 as physicists4 ,we prefer to creep slowly from our base of physical knowledge2 to engineer carefully as we go1 establishing forts1 constructing roads1 and thoroughly exploring the country1 making a progress very slow but very lasting4 ,the psychologists from their side may meet us4 ,i hope they will2 but one or the other of us ought to begin4444 ,in ,america1 we have ,buchanan and many others investigating in this field2 and ,dr4 ,bowne1 the orthodox ,dean of the ,boston ,university1 in his answer to ,herbert ,spencer1 answering the question1 ,what is ,force8 tells us3 ,not gravitation1 nor electricity1 nor magnetism1 nor chemical affinity1 but will1 is the typical idea of force4 ,self-determination1 volition is the essence of the only causation we know4 ,will is the sum-total of the dynamic idea3 it either stands for that or nothing4 ,now science professes itself unable to interpret nature without this metaphysical idea of power4 ,the experiments made by ,professor ,barker and others1 which are said to establish the identity of heat and mental force1 really prove only a correlation between heat and the nervous action which attends thinking4 ,nervous action and heat correlate1 but the real point is to prove that nervous action and mental force correlate4 ,this has never been done4 ,the concept of will1 says ,arthur ,schopenhauer1 has hitherto commonly been subordinated to that of force2 but ,i reverse the matter entirely1 and desire that every force in nature be thought of as will4 ,it must not be supposed that this is mere verbal quibbling and of no consequence3 rather it is of the greatest significance and importance4 ,thus it will be seen that the field which ,professor ,lodge1 with rare courage1 invited his fellow-physicists to enter and bring with them their appropriate methods of investigation 7unless these philosophers are astray7 may prove to be the immense and untrodden field which ,buckle said must be conquered before ,science can arrogate to herself any knowledge of nature's laws that is not purely empirical4 ,a little reflection will enable the average mind to see in the signs of the times a tendency to movements on a grander scale1 such as are involved in the higher view which ,keely is himself now taking since his researches have extended beyond the order he was pursuing when he was thinking only of mechanical success4 ,man's progress has been so enormous that nothing too extravagant can be imagined for the future1 when once psychical investigation is conducted as proposed by ,professor ,lodge2 who is trying to unravel the mystery as to what force is1 and by what means exerted4 ,there is something here not definitely provided for in the orthodox scheme of physics2 but ,keely's themes explain this mystery4 ,luminiferous ether1 he writes1 or celestial mind force1 a compound inter-etheric element1 is the substance of which everything visible is composed4 ,it is the great sympathetic protoplastic element2 life itself4 ,consequently1 our physical organisms are composed of this element4 ,this focalizing1 or controlling media1 of the physical1 has its seat in the cerebral convolutions2 from which sympathetic radiation emanates4 ,this sympathetic outreach is mind flow proper1 or will force2 sympathetic polarization to produce action2 sympathetic depolarization to neutralize it4 ,polar and depolar differentiation1 resulting in motion4 ,the true protoplastic element sympathetically permeates all forms and conditions of matter2 having1 for its attendants1 gravity1 electricity1 and magnetism2 the triple conditions born in itself4 ,in fact1 it is the soul of matter2 the element from which all forms of motion receive their introductory impulse4 ,not long since1 ,mr4 ,keely was congratulated upon having secured the attention of men of science1 connected with the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 to his work of research4 ,now1 you will be known as a great discoverer1 not as ,keely the motor-man1 said one of the professors present4 ,keely answered1 ,i have discovered so little1 in comparison with what remains to be discovered1 that ,i cannot call myself a discoverer4 ,another of the professors present took ,keely by the hand and said1 ,you are a great discoverer4 ,had the discoverer of this unknown force not been dependent upon a company1 a ring1 for funds to pursue his investigations1 scientists would have better understood the nature of this work at an earlier stage of his experimental research2 but following close upon ,keely's production of the latent force carried in all forms of aggregated matter1 he became entangled in the meshes of an organization that cared nothing for science1 and a great deal for the wealth which1 it was seen by practical business men1 must sooner or later accrue as the result of a costless motive power4 ,in other words1 those who interested themselves in ,keely's discoveries were interested solely in their marketable value2 or if there chanced to be one who was not so interested1 that one was not of sufficient influence in the scientific world to be able to induce capitalists to come forward and contribute towards saving the discovery to this age1 by protecting the discoverer from the persecution that he was subjected to from those who had the management of the commercial affairs of the company4 ,aratus1 the poet of ,cilicia1 the author of ,phenomena1 wrote1 ,we are the offspring of ,god2 and ,st4 ,paul1 quoting ,aratus1 continued1 ,in ,him we live and move and have our being4 ,from that hour1 down the blood-stained path of the age to the present1 there have been men1 spiritually endowed1 who have taught that ,he who created1 commands and governs1 the universe1 sustains it by the power of ,his will2 and that were it not for the celestial streams of radiation1 this superhuman influence1 constantly flowing into all created forms1 the universe would pass out of existence1 would perish in a moment4 ,so well did ,macvicar1 the great ,scotch divine1 understand this conception of ,deity1 that he wrote1 ,the nearer we ascend to the fountain-head of being and of action the more magical must everything inevitably become2 for that fountain-head is pure volition4 ,and pure volition as a cause is precisely what is meant by magic2 for by magic is merely meant a mode of producing a phenomenon without mechanical appliances--that is1 without that seeming continuity of resisting parts and that leverage which satisfy our muscular sense and our imagination1 and bring the phenomenon into the category of what we call 'the natural2' that is1 the sphere of the elastic1 the gravitating2 the sphere into which the 'vis inerti' is alone admitted4 ,we call this the sphere of the natural2 but1 when we come to higher workings of natural laws1 with which we are not familiar1 we designate them as supernatural2 and scientists witnessing some of ,keely's experiments1 like those of overcoming gravity1 of rotation of the needle of a compass1 #ad of the disintegration of water1 etc41 and not believing in any workings of laws unknown to them1 followed in the footsteps1 still unobliterated1 of the narrow-minded1 bigoted persecutors of ,galileo2 and have denounced ,keely as a modern ,cagliostro4 ,when men of more extended research have been on the eve of investigating for themselves they have1 until #ahhi1 been deterred from doing so by the representations made to them that ,keely was using compressed air to humbug his audiences4 ,until ,professor ,leidy and ,dr4 ,willcox gave their attention to ,mr4 ,keely's claims as the discoverer of a new form of energy1 the way was not open for ,mr4 ,keely to disclose his conjectures1 his hypotheses and his theories4 ,regrettable as this fact has seemed to be1 it is now seen that any previous revelation of his discovery1 other than to scientists1 might have been premature2 so little did ,keely himself know1 until within two years1 of the developments he has at last reached in his work of evolution4 ,the time was not ripe for the disclosure4 ,it is a canon of science that molecular aggregation generally involves dissipation of energy4 ,on the contrary1 for more than fifteen years ,keely has demonstrated that all molecular aggregation is attended with an absorption of energy2 relieving by vibratory power the latent force held in a few drops of water and showing thereby a pressure of from ten to fifteen tons per square inch2 claiming that resultant development of any force and of all forces is only accomplished by conditions that awaken the latent energy carried during molecular aggregation4 ,it is conceded by those most conversant with the nature of ,keely's discoveries that he must either create force1 or liberate latent energy4 ,as ,omnipotence alone creates1 it follows that science must be wrong in two of her most fundamental laws2 one relating to the indivisibility of the atom2 the other to the dissipation of energy in molecular aggregation4 ,this1 ,keely establishes in the one experiment of disintegration of water1 releasing from three drops the latent energy carried1 during and from the time of molecular aggregation1 and showing a pressure of fifteen tons to the square inch4 ,therefore1 it is not a waste of time and thought to give attention to ,keely's theories1 and to investigate from the standpoint of vibratory physics1 instead of setting limits to the operations of ,nature and the power of the ,almighty from the narrow platform of mechanical physics4 ,keely's ,theories4 ,the action of ,nature's sympathetic flows1 writes ,keely1 regulates the differential oscillatory range of motion of the planetary masses as regards their approach toward and recession from each other4 ,these flows may also be compared to the flow of the magnet which permeates the field1 existing between the molecules themselves1 sensitizing the combined neutral centres of the molecules without disturbing1 in the least1 the visible molecular mass itself4 ,in the planetary masses--balanced as it were in the scales of universal space1 like soap-bubbles floating in a field of atmospheric air--the concentration of these sympathetic streams evolves the universal power which moves them in their oscillating range of motion to and from each other4 ,this sympathetic triple stream focalizes and defocalizes on the neutrals of all such masses2 polarizing and depolarizing1 positive and negative action1 planetary rotation1 etc41 etc4 ,it is thus that all the conditions governing light1 heat1 life1 vegetation1 motion1 are all derived from the velocity of the positive and negative interchange of celestial sympathy with the terrestrial4 ,every harmonious condition of ,nature's evolutions is governed by one incontrovertible law2 that of concordant assimilative harmony4 ,this concordant key is the ruling one over all the antagonistic1 negative1 discordant ones2 the one that diverts the disturbance of sympathetic equilibrium to one general concentrative centre for redistribution4 ,harmony concentrates1 harmony distributes4 ,the focalizing point of concordant sympathetic concentration is the percussive electric field1 where the velocity of its sympathetic streams rebounds with a power that throws them far out into universal space2 and so far beyond their equative centre of equilibrium as to bring them in sympathy with the universal attraction of the combined neutral centres of all planetary masses4 ,sympathetic ,streams which ,control the ,action and ,reaction of all ,visible ,forms of ,matter4 ,what is light and heat1 and how are they evolved8 and why are they so intensely perceptible as emanating from the solar world8 ,light and heat1 considered theoretically1 belong to the highest orders of the phenomenal4 ,they can only be accounted for by the velocity of sympathetic streams1 as interchangeable to and from centres of negative and attractive focalization4 ,in considering the velocity of vibration1 as associated with the projection of a ray of light1 to be at least one hundred thousand billions per second1 it is easy to account for the origin and demonstration of these two elements by the action of celestial sympathetic streams4 #ast4 ,light and heat are not evolved until the force of the vibratory sympathetic stream1 from the neutral centre of the sun1 comes into atomic percussive action against the molecular atmosphere or envelope of our planet4 ,the visibility of the planets can only be accounted for in this way1 some in a great degree1 some in less4 ,innumerable thousands1 it may be1 remain invisible to us by not having the conditions surrounding them1 and associated with them1 which favour the atomic and molecular antagonistic friction necessary to make them visible4 ,the velocity of a steel ball passing through the atmospheric envelope1 at a speed of thousands of billions times less than an etheric sympathetic stream1 would be dissipated into vapour in an indefinite period of a second of time4 ,light and heat1 in a certain sense1 are one and the same2 light giving heat1 and heat giving light4 ,the whole mystery1 as associated with their evolution1 is explained by the bombardment of the sympathetic etheric stream on the dense portion of the molecular1 in seeking the sympathetic1 concordant1 neutral centre of the planetary mass that surrounds the point of focalization4 ,the positive and negative interchange of this true sympathetic stream keeps intact the magnetic force of the polar envelope of the earth2 making it1 as it were1 a great magnet of itself4 ,the fact of this magnetic force being universally present1 on and in our planet1 proves the immeasurable speed and power of etheric sympathetic interchange4 ,thus it is that1 from the velocity of these sympathetic rays1 the earth's standard of heat and light is evolved and kept in balance4 ,this interchange of sympathetic radiation1 between the solar world and its system of planets1 equates the sympathetic volume by the reception of the full amount expended on sympathetic distribution2 thus showing the never-ending restoration of equilibrium by the same medium that disturbs it during intermittent sympathetic action4 ,there are very many facts in vibratory physics which prove that the volume of heat1 supposed by many to emanate from the sun1 if concentrated upon a centre of the volume represented by the sun1 would give enough focal force1 if projected upon the system of planets that is under its control1 to vaporize them in one month's time4 ,a ray of heat one billion times greater than the whole volume of the sun represents could not pass through the dark vacuous boundaries which lie between us and the sun without being neutralized and absorbed4 ,what is ,electricity8 ,electricity is the result of three differentiated sympathetic flows1 combining the celestial and terrestrial flows by an order of assimilation negatively attractive in its character4 ,it is one of ,nature's efforts to restore attractive differentiation4 ,in analyzing this triple union in its vibratory philosophy1 ,i find the highest order of perfection in this assimilative action of ,nature4 ,the whole condition is atomic1 and is the introductory one which has an affinity for terrestrial centres1 uniting magnetically with the ,polar stream2 in other words1 uniting with the ,polar stream by neutral affinity4 ,the magnetic or electric forces of the earth are thus kept in stable equilibrium by this triune force1 and the chords of this force may be expressed as #ast1 the dominant1 #bnd1 the harmonic1 and #crd1 the enharmonic4 ,the value of each is1 one to the other1 in the rates of figures1 true thirds4 ,e flat--transmissive chord or dominant2 ,a flat--harmonic2 ,a double flat--enharmonic4 ,the unition of the two prime thirds is so rapid1 when the negative and the positive conditions reach a certain range of vibratory motion1 as to be compared to an explosion4 ,during this action the positive electric stream is liberated and immediately seeks its neutral terrestrial centre1 or centre of highest attraction4 ,the power of attractive vibration of the solar forces is the great coincident towards which the terrestrial-magnetic-sympathetic flow is diverted4 ,this force is the celestial current that makes up the prime third of the triple association4 ,it also induces aqueous disintegration and thermal concentration1 the two prime conductors towards this coincident chord of sympathy with itself4 ,without this aqueous disintegration there would be no connective link between the celestial and terrestrial4 ,there would exist nothing but a condition of luminous radiation on the order of the aurora--a reaching out for the concordant without any sympathetic diversion to create unstable equilibrium of terrestrial magnetism4 ,in fact1 under such a condition1 the absence of the sun on one side1 or the absence of water on the other1 the magnetic or electric force would remain in a stable state of equilibrium1 or the highest order of the chaotic4 ,disturbance of equilibrium and sympathetic equation constitute the dual power that governs all the varied forms of life and motion which exist terrestrially1 of which the electric or magnetic is the prime mover and regulator4 ,all electrical action1 no matter of what character1 has its sympathetic birth by the intervention of that current of the triune flow1 which ,i call the dominant1 with the ,polar harmonic current2 all sympathetic flows being composed of three currents4 ,they become associative one with the other only near the junction of terrestrial interference4 ,the great vacuous field which exists between the planetary ranges holds this portion of the etheric flow free of all antagonism1 molecularly or otherwise1 till the associative point is reached2 so wonderfully planned by the ,great ,creator1 for instant electric evolution and assimilation with terrestrial centres of attraction4 ,i call this intervention1 atomic-inter-molecular and molecular density4 ,the combination of the action of the triune sympathetic-celestial stream with the same intervening medium induces heat and light1 as the resultant of these corpuscular conflictions with sympathetic celestial and terrestrial focalized centres of neutral radiation4 ,i do not recognize electricity1 nor light1 nor heat as coming from the sun4 ,these conditions1 according to my theories1 emanate from atomic and inter-atomic interference on induced molecular vibration1 by sympathetic etheric vibration1 the celestial-attractive being the prime mover4 ,in my estimation this is not at all phenomenal2 it is only phenomenal as far as the knowledge of its action in mechanical physics is concerned4 ,physicists have been working in the wrong direction to lead them to associate themselves with ,nature's sympathetic evolutions4 #ae ,the expression ,electricity attracts at a distance is as bad as1 if not worse than1 the microbe of the magnet4 ,clerk ,maxwell seems1 when theorizing on sound transmission by an atmospheric medium1 not to have taken into consideration the philosophy attending the phenomena of the origination of electric streams in celestial space4 ,light is one of the prominent evolved mediums in electric action1 and is evolved by corpuscular bombardment induced by sympathetic streams acting between the neutral centres of planetary masses1 all of which are under a condition of unstable equilibrium4 ,these unstable conditions were born in them1 and were thus designed by the ,architect of ,creation in order to perpetuate the connective link between the dispersing positive and the attractive negative4 ,the action that induces this link ,i call sympathetic planetary oscillation4 ,attraction1 ,propulsion1 c4 ,the action of the magnetic flow is dual in its evolution1 both attractive and propulsive4 ,the inclination of the plane on which the subtle stream moves1 either to the right or to the left1 has nothing to do with positive or negative conditions4 ,the difference in conditions of what is called1 by electricians1 positive and negative electricity1 is the difference between receptive and propulsive vibrations4 ,they can be right or left receptive1 or right or left propulsive4 ,the positive vibrations are the radiating2 the negative vibrations are the ones that are attracted toward the neutral centre4 ,the negative-sympathetic polar stream is the magnetic flow proper1 and it is in sympathetic coincidence with the second atomic flow2 the electric current is the first and second order of atomic vibration1 a dual force1 the flow of which is too tenuous to displace the molecules4 ,it can no more do so than the flow from a magnet can displace the molecules of a glass plate when it is passed under it4 ,the flow from a magnet is too fine to disturb the plate molecules1 but passes as freely between them as a current of air would through a coarse sieve4 ,like poles do not repel each other1 simply because there is a perfect sympathetic equation between them2 the same in unlike poles4 ,if a differentiation of #cc #a_/c against #ajj is established between them1 whether like or unlike1 they become attractive to each other4 ,they become repellent after differentiating them1 #ff #b_/c of the one against #ajj of the other1 by sympathetic vibration4 ,taking into consideration even the introductory conditions of the etheric stage1 etheric vibration has proved to me that the higher the velocity of its rotating stream the greater is its tendency towards the neutral centre or centre of sympathetic coincidence4 ,were it otherwise1 how could there ever be any planetary formations or the building up of visible structures8 ,if a billiard ball were rotated to a certain velocity1 it would separate in pieces1 and the pieces would fly off in a tangent2 but if it were a ball of ether1 the higher the velocity of rotation the stronger would be the tendency of its corpuscules to seek its centre of neutrality1 and to hold together4 ,it is not a magnetic force that is borne on the etheric atom which gives it its power to draw to it streams of coincidence4 ,the magnet is only susceptive to certain aggregated forms of matter2 iron1 for instance1 and its preparations4 ,all moving bodies of visible matter produce heat as according to their velocity4 ,the flow of gases only induces thermal reduction from molecular friction4 ,by this term it must not be understood that the molecules actually come in contact1 and rub against each other4 ,there is no pressure1 however great1 that can cause molecular contact4 ,the area of the volume of the molecule can be reduced by enormous pressure1 and the tension thus brought to bear on their rotating envelopes induces heat4 ,the heat thus induced is a positive proof of the wonderful velocity of the etheric envelope4 ,if the molecules were dead--which is an infinite impossibility--to sympathetic vibration1 and without a rotatory envelope if all the pressure possible to conceive were brought to bear upon them1 it would not induce the slightest thermal change4 ,energy4 ,energy is a sympathetic condition inherent in all forms of aggregated matter1 visible and invisible4 ,it is ever present1 in its latent condition1 and is aroused by the sympathetic disturbers of its equilibrium4 ,by this conservation it becomes transferable4 ,the sympathetic correlation of will-force in the cerebral convolutionary centres transfers its energy to the physical organism4 ,bring a steel rod in contact with a magnet1 and the latent energy in the rod is brought into action without its becoming impregnated by its magnetic exciter4 ,energy is an infinite latent force4 ,if it did not exist it could not be generated4 ,consequently1 there would be no energy to lose nor to conserve4 ,the volume of latent energy in the etheric domain never increases nor ever grows less4 ,it will remain the same1 as yesterday to-day and for ever4 ,inaudible ,vibrations4 ,nature has established her sympathetic concordants from the birth of the neutral centres of the planets4 ,this is gravity2 therefore gravity is fixed1 inherent4 ,there is no flight of gravity4 ,the difference in the condition of the sympathetic nerve centres1 and the variations in the chord aggregation of the masses1 as established in the man or woman at birth1 constitutes the molecular condition of the individual4 ,the molecular state of animals1 vegetables1 and minerals1 depends upon the aggregation of their chord centres4 ,it is impossible to make two coins from one die the same in its molecular aggregation4 ,the mere picking up of a coin and replacing it causes billions of molecules to be lost4 ,this produces a change in the chord of mass of the coin4 ,as this fact has only been developed by persistent progressive research1 it is quite easy to comprehend the nature of the difficulties that lie in the way of perfecting devices for the guidance of artificers and mechanics1 whereby they can bring a proper vibratory action into play to induce positive sympathetic transmission4 ,in order to transmit my knowledge by demonstration it will be necessary to have much more perfect instruments than those crude devices which ,i first constructed for my researches4 ,one of my perfected instruments shows to the eye1 in the molecular effects produced by a certain order of vibration1 when the chord of harmony is established between two neutral centres4 ,another1 when connected with the sympathizer1 denotes accurately1 by the colour of a certain sound or combination of sounds the number of vibrations that are necessary to induce certain effects of mechanical combinations4 ,inaudible vibrations are tested by the magnetic needle and sound colours4 ,every gaseous molecule is a resonator of itself and is sensitive to any and all sounds induced1 whether accordant or discordant4 ,at the normal density of the atmosphere we hear a volume of sound1 focalized by the combined association of every molecule brought under sound influence4 ,when we reduce the atmospheric volume of a chamber to #ej_/ajj1 then the ear is sensitive to the reduction of the acoustic force evolved on the same ratio1 and so on1 until sound becomes inaudible4 ,this inaudibility to our organ of hearing is no proof whatever of any reduction of the acoustic force evolved on the introductory impulse given to the bell4 ,it is only a proof that the number of the molecules left for the acoustic force to act upon has been so reduced by increasing the vacuum1 that the concentration of sound from the diminished number cannot be heard4 ,the ear is not susceptible to the acoustic force emanating from one molecule1 nor even from the concentration of one hundred millions of billions of molecules4 ,the highest vacuum that can be induced1 taking but a cubic inch in volume to act upon1 will leave a residual number of molecules one hundred billion times as great as the above given number1 and yet be perfectly inaudible when all their acoustic forces are focalized4 ,the audible has been conquered in my instruments to that extent which brings me into sympathetic contact with the inaudible1 the vitalized conditions of which as regards sympathetic union with the terrestrial are the pure and only essentials necessary towards establishing the sensitive link1 between the instrument and terrestrial chord-masses1 in order to run sympathetic machinery4 ,but there is still before me a vast region to be explored before the keystone of this sympathetic arch is set in position to carry the high order of sympathetic transfer that ,i aim at4 ,i have every reason to hope that when ,i have mastered these mechanical difficulties ,i shall be able to control this most subtle of ,nature's forces4 ,when this is done1 the commercial engine will soon follow4 ,there is no truer nor quicker way to reach that end than the one ,i am now pursuing4 ,my obligations on this line once fulfilled1 ,i shall be at liberty to turn my attention to the consideration of the mental forces associated with the physical1 and in fact the solution of the mechanical problem is one and the same in principle1 as is the physical and mental4 ,when one is solved all is solved4 ,the convolutions which exist in the cerebral field are entirely governed by the sympathetic conditions that surround them4 ,the force which binds the atoms1 which controls secreting glands1 ,is the same that guides the planets1 acting by divine commands4 ,all abnormal discordant aggregations in these resonating convolutions produce differentiation to concordant transmission2 and according as these differentiations exist in volume1 so the transmissions are discordantly transferred1 producing antagonism to pure physical action4 ,thus1 in motor ataxy1 a differentiation of the minor thirds of the posterior parietal lobule produces the same condition between the retractors and exteriors of the leg and foot1 and thus the control of the proper movements is lost through this differentiation4 ,the same truth can be universally applied to any of the cerebral convolutions that are in a state of differential harmony to the mass of immediate cerebral surroundings4 ,taking the cerebral condition of the whole mass as one1 it is subservient to one general head centre2 although as many neutrals are represented as there are convolutions4 ,the introductory minors are controlled by the molecular2 the next progressive third by the atomic2 and the high third by the etheric4 ,all these progressive links have their positive1 negative1 and neutral position4 ,when we take into consideration the structural condition of the human brain1 we ought not to be bewildered by the infinite variety of its sympathetic impulses1 inasmuch as it unerringly proves the true philosophy that the mass-chords of such structures are governed by vibratory etheric flows4 ,there is no structure whatever--animal1 vegetable1 or mineral--that is not built up from the cosmic ether4 ,certain orders of attractive vibration produce certain orders of structure2 thus the infinite variety of effects2 more especially in the cerebral organs4 ,discordance cannot exist in the molecule proper4 ,discordance in any mass is the result of differentiated groups induced by antagonistic chords1 and any differentiated mass can be brought to a condition of harmony or equation by proper chord media1 and an equated sympathy produced whether the mass be metal or brain4 ,there is good reason for believing that insanity is simply a condition of differentiation in the mass-chords of the convolutions1 which creates an antagonistic molecular bombardment towards the neutral or attractive centres of such convolutions4 ,this may be compared to a knot on a violin string4 ,as long as this knot remains1 it is impossible to elicit1 from its sympathetic surroundings1 the condition which transfers pure concordance to its resonating body4 ,discordant conditions 7i4e41 differentiation of mass7 produce negatization to coincident action4 ,pure sympathetic concordants are as antagonistic to negative discordants as the negative is to the positive2 but the vast volume the sympathetic holds over the non-sympathetic1 in ethereal space1 makes it at once the ruling medium and re-adjuster of all opposing conditions1 when properly brought to bear upon them4444 ,josiah ,royce is right as regards correspondent sympathetic association between two conditions4 ,if concordance can be established1 even of unlike states1 no matter whether it be of the high tenuous forces of nature1 gases with liquids1 liquids with solids1 solids with gases1 the structural conditions can be perfectly adverse4 ,their neutral centres are the focalized seat of sympathetic concordance for controlling any differentiation that may exist outside1 or in the mass that surrounds them4 ,certain orders of vibration can reach these centres and establish a concordant flow of sympathy1 independent of any and all mass antagonism2 in other words1 certain orders of sympathetic vibratory transmission can correct and equate all differentiation that may exist between physical organisms and their cerebellic flows4 ,discord is disease4 ,harmony is health4--,keely4 ,the ,standard calls attention to the fact that ,lord ,rosebery has pointed out how fast mental disease of one form or another is growing among the population of ,london--so fast that a new asylum1 containing #ejjj patients1 must be built every five years4 ,this1 said his lordship1 is a penalty of civilization4 ,when we take into consideration the effect upon the nerves1 in sensitive organizations1 of living in the vicinity of railways1 more especially of the elevated railways in cities1 the incessant jarring vibrations which are communicated to houses1 even from underground railways1 to say nothing of the piercing shrieks of the steam whistle1 is it to be wondered at that mental disorders and nervous diseases are on the increase8 ,with this increase of the most terrible form of affliction1 the remedy will follow2 for our necessities are known to ,one who with a ,father's care and affectionate attention supplies the wants1 as they arise1 of the worlds which lie like children in ,his bosom4 ,sympathetic ,vibratory ,physics will1 in due time1 make known the curableness of many disorders now considered incurable4 ,on this subject ,mr4 ,keely writes3--,every disease that the physical organism is subject to has its connective link in the cerebral domain2 where it unerringly telegraphs1 as it were1 its molecular differentiations1 through the spinal dura mater or physical sympathetic transmitter1 and vice vers back again4 ,the sympathetic communication1 as between the physical and mental forces1 shows up truthfully the pure conditions that govern the celestial and terrestrial link of sympathy1 as between the finite and the ,infinite in planetary suspension4 ,the whole system governing the suspension of the innumerable planetary masses1--the infinite certainty and harmony of their eccentric and concentric evolutions and revolutions1 in their orbital and oscillating ranges of motion1--the triune sympathetic streams of ,infinity that permeate their molecular masses--focalizing and defocalizing on their neutral centres of attraction--are all subservient to that ,great ,ruling ,power3 ,mind-,flow4 ,there is not a grain of sand1 nor an invisible corpuscule of floating matter1 that does not come under the same rule that governs the most mighty of planets4444 ,all's love1 yet all's law4 ,as the offspring of ,god1 only by living in love and harmony can we fulfil the law and maintain health and happiness1 either individually in family life1 or collectively in our intercourse with the world4 ,as ,goethe taught3-- ,let the ,god within thee speak1 ,love all things that lovely be1 ,and ,god will show ,his best to thee4 ,,chapter ,,xv4 ,,the ,,philosophy ,,of ,,history4--,,keely ,,the ,,founder ,,of ,a ,,system4 ,were half the power that fills the world with terror1 ,were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts1 ,given to redeem the human mind from error1 ,there were no need of arsenals and forts4 ,as long as men remain demons of selfishness and ignorance1 so long will they fight for their turn to tyrannize over their brother men4 ,instruction and education can alone prepare the way for a peaceful solution of the greatest problem that mankind has ever had to deal with2 for1 before we can hope to enter into a 'brotherhood of humanity1' the earth must be 'filled with the knowledge of the ,lord4'--,h4 ,o4 ,ward1 in the ,nationalization ,news4 ,as for myself ,i hold the firm conviction that unflagging research will be rewarded by an insight into natural mysteries such as now can rarely be conceived4--,prof4 ,wm4 ,crookes4 ,though it is the spirit that quickeneth1 and the flesh profiteth nothing1 the grand reign of the ,spirit will not commence until the material world shall be completely under man's control4--,renan1 ,future of ,science4 ,if truth is to obtain a complete victory1 if ,christianity is ever really to triumph on the earth1 then must the ,state become ,christian and science become ,christian4 ,such then is the two-fold problem which our age is called upon to solve4--,frederich von ,schlegel4 ,i come soon and will renew all things4--,scripture4 ,frederich von ,schlegel1 in his ,lecture ,on the ,general ,spirit of the ,age1 7#ahdf7 says1 ,there are in the history of the eighteenth century1 many phenomena which occurred so suddenly1 so instantaneously1 that although on deeper consideration we may discover their efficient causes in the past1 in the natural state of things1 and in the general situation of the world1 yet are there many circumstances which prove that there was a deliberate1 though secret1 preparation of events1 as1 indeed1 in many instances has been actually demonstrated4 ,in tracing the origin of this secret and mysterious branch of illuminism1 and its influence in regard to the true restoration of society founded on the basis of ,christian justice1 ,schlegel gives it as his opinion that the order of ,templars was the channel by which this esoteric influence was introduced into the ,west1 handing down the ,solomonian traditions connected with the very foundation of this order1 and the religious masonic symbols which admit of a ,christian interpretation3 but1 as he says1 the idea of an esoteric society for the propagation of any secret doctrine is not compatible with the very principle of ,christianity itself2 for ,christianity is a divine mystery which lies open to all4 ,continuing from ,schlegel's writings1 the ,christian faith has the living ,god and ,his revelation for its object1 and is itself that revelation2 hence every doctrine taken from this source is something real and positive1 while1 in science1 the absolute is the idol of vain and empty systems1 of dead and abstract reason4 ,in the absolute spirit of our age1 and in the absolute character of its factions1 there is a deep-rooted intellectual pride1 which is not so much personal or individual as social1 for it refers to the historical destiny of mankind and of this age in particular4 ,actuated by this pride1 a spirit exalted by moral energy1 or invested with external power1 fancies it can give a real existence to that which can only be the work of ,god2 as from ,him alone proceed all those mighty and real regenerations of the world1 among which ,christianity--a revolution in the high and divine sense of the word--occupies the first place4 ,for the last three hundred years this human pride has been at work2 a pride that wishes to originate events1 instead of humbly awaiting them and of resting contented with the place assigned to it among those events4444 ,it was indeed but a very small portion of this illuminism of the eighteenth century that was really derived from the truths of ,christianity and the pure light of ,revelation4 ,the rest was the mere work of man1 consequently vain and empty2 or at least defective1 corrupt in parts1 and on the whole destitute of a solid foundation2--therefore devoid of all permanent strength and duration4 ,but when once1 after the complete victory of truth1 the divine ,reformation shall appear1 that human ,reformation which till now has existed will sink to the ground and disappear from the world4 ,then1 by the universal triumph of ,christianity1 and the thorough religious regeneration of the age1 of the world1 and of governments themselves1 will dawn the era of a true ,christian ,illuminism4 ,this period is not perhaps so remote from our own as the natural indolence of the human mind would be disposed to believe1 says ,schlegel4 ,never was there a period that pointed so strongly1 so clearly1 so generally towards the future1 as our own4 ,in order to comprehend in all its magnitude the problem of our age1 the birth of ,christianity must be the great point of survey to which we must recur2 in order to examine clearly what has remained incomplete1 what has not yet been attained4 ,for1 unquestionably1 all that has been neglected1 in the earlier periods and stages of ,christian civilization1 must be made good in this true1 consummate regeneration of society4 ,if truth is to obtain a complete victory--if ,christianity is really to triumph on the earth1 then must the state become ,christian and science become ,christian4 ,such then is the two-fold problem which our age is called upon to solve4 ,whatever man may contribute towards the religious regeneration of government and science1 ,schlegel reasons that we must look for the consummation1 in silent awe1 to a higher ,providence1 to the creative fiat of a last period of dispensation1 to the dawn of an approaching era of love and harmony1 which will emancipate the human race from the bondage in which it has been held by false teachings2 leading men and nations to consider and estimate time1 and all things temporal1 not by the law and feeling of eternity3--but for temporal interests1 or from temporal motives2 forgetting the thoughts and faith of eternity4 ,all progress in the great work of the religious regeneration of science ,schlegel hails as the noblest triumph of genius2 for it is1 he says1 precisely in the department of physics that the problem is the most difficult2 and all that rich and boundless treasure of new discoveries in nature1 which are ever better understood when viewed in connection with the high truths of religion1 must be looked upon as the property of ,christian science4 ,our various systems of philosophic ,rationalism1 he foretells1 will fall to the ground3 and vulgar ,rationalism1 which is but an emanation of the higher1 will finally disappear4 ,then science will become thoroughly ,christian4 ,in the progress of mankind now1 as in the past1 a divine hand and conducting ,providence are clearly discernible4 ,earthly and visible power has not alone co-operated in this progress2--that the struggle has been1 in part1 carried on under divine1 and against invisible might1 has been substantiated by ,schlegel on firm and solid grounds1 if not proved to mathematical evidence2 which evidence1 as he remarks1 is neither appropriate nor applicable to the subject4 ,schlegel concludes his work on ,the ,philosophy of ,history1 by a retrospective view of society1 considered in reference to that invisible world and higher region1 from which a pure philosophy teaches us the operations of this visible world proceed2 in which its great destinies have their root1 and which is the ultimate and highest term of all its movements4 ,both ,schlegel and ,keely teach that we shall prize with deeper1 more earnest and more solid affection the great and divine era of man's redemption and emancipation1 by ,christianity1 the more accurately we discriminate between what is essentially divine and unchangeably eternal in this revelation of love1 and those elements of destruction which false teachings have opposed thereto or intermingled therewith2 tracing in the special dispensations of ,providence1 for the advancement of ,christianity and the progress of civilization and regeneration1 the wonderful concurrence of events towards the single object of divine love1 or the unexpected exercise of divine justice long delayed4 7,see ,vera ,vita1 by ,david ,sinclair47 ,sir ,g4 ,g4 ,stokes ,bart41 ,m4,p41 reasoning on the difficulties as to good arising out of evil1 says1 ,in our study of nature we are most forcibly impressed with the uniformity of her laws4 ,those uniform laws are1 so far as we can judge1 the method by which the ordinary course of nature is carried on4 ,that is to say1 if we recognize the ordinary course of nature as designed by a ,supreme ,being1 that it is according to ,his will that the course of ,nature should1 as a rule1 be carried on in this regular methodical manner1 we should expect1 therefore1 to find the operation of regular laws in the moral1 no less than in the physical world1 although their existence is less obvious on account of the freedom of the will4444 ,there is a conflict of opinion and a restlessness of men's minds at the present day2 but we may confidently hope that if men will in a straightforward manner seek after what is true1 and that in a humble spirit1 without arrogating to themselves the monopoly of truth and contemning others whose opinions may be different1 the present conflict of opinion will in time settle down4444 ,it is in this frame of mind that searchers after truth are now examining the claims of ,keely as a discoverer1 and as the founder of a new and pure philosophy4 ,if the most important subject and the first problem of philosophy is1 as ,schlegel declares1 the restoration in man of the lost image of ,god1 so far as this relates to science1 all revolution1 as well as all revelation1 must tend toward the full understanding of this restoration in the internal consciousness1 and not until it is really brought about will the object of pure philosophy be fully attained4 ,the philosophy of history shows clearly how1 in the first ages of the world1 the original word of ,divine revelation formed the firm central point of faith for the future reunion of the dispersed race of man2 how later1 amidst the various powers intellectual as well as political which 7in the middle period of the world7 all ruling nations exerted on their times1 according to the measure allotted to them1 it was alone the power of eternal love in the ,christian religion which truly emancipated and redeemed mankind2 and how the pure light of this ,divine truth1 universally diffused through the world and through all science1 will crown in conclusion the progress of this restoration in the future4 ,the fulfilment of the term of all ,christian hope and ,divine promise is reserved for the last period of consummation--for the new dispensation which the closing century is ushering in4 ,the esoteric meaning of the second coming of our ,lord is thus intimated to those who are watching for the triumph of justice and truth4 ,behold ,i come quickly2 and my reward is with me1 to give every man according to his work4 ,theosophy interprets the often-quoted ,scripture passage of the seven ,spirits which are before ,his throne as the cosmical1 creative1 sustaining1 and world-governing potencies1 the principles of which ,god avails ,himself as ,his instruments1 organs1 and media4 ,this is what the ,kabbala implies with its seven ,sephiroth1 what ,schelling means by the potencies1 or principles in the inner life of ,god2 and it is by their emergence1 separation1 and tension that they become cosmical potencies4 ,if we stop short at these general considerations1 this is precisely the idea of ,theosophy4 ,when it is asked what special activities are to be ascribed to each of the seven ,spirits1 striving to apprehend more closely the uncreated potencies through which the ,deity works in its manifestation1 and to which ,scripture itself makes unmistakable allusion1 revelation is silent1 intimating only by veiled suggestions4 ,it is here that ,theosophy leads the way to the open book of ,nature3 the title-page of which we have only begun to turn4 ,theosophy1 says ,bishop ,martensen1 signifies wisdom in ,god3 ,church ,theology is not wise in assuming a hostile attitude towards ,theosophy1 because it hereby deprives itself of a most valuable leavening influence1 a source of renewal and rejuvenescence1 which ,theology so greatly needs1 exposed as it is to the danger of stagnating in barren and dreary scholasticism and cold and trivial criticism4 ,in such a course no real progress can be made in the ,christian apprehension of truth4 ,jacob ,bhme1 who was the greatest and most famous of all ,theosophists in the world1 #af said of philosophers and other disputants who attack not only ,theosophy but also theology1 and even ,christianity itself1 in the name of modern science3--,every spirit sees no further than its mother1 out of which it has its original1 and wherein it stands2 for it is impossible for any spirit1 in its own natural power to look into another principle1 and behold it1 except it be regenerated therein4 ,this is what ,christ taught3 ,ye must be born again4 ,only those who are regenerated1 by the principle of which ,christ spoke to ,nicodemus1 can understand the quickening of the ,spirit which comes alone from ,him who gives this new birth to all who seek it1 and in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden3--hidden1 not in order that they may remain secret1 but in order that they may ever increasingly be made manifest and appropriated by us4 ,jacob ,bhme1 who was born in #aege1 brought to the birth an idea which1 three centuries later1 is developing into a system of pure philosophy1 that promises to cover the earth with wisdom and understanding in the deep mysteries of ,god4 ,bhme gave birth to an idea4 ,keely is giving birth to a system4 ,both are exceedingly imperfect in the expression of their views2 yet in points of detail each possesses a firm dialectical grip4 ,in their writings both seem overwhelmed by the vast extent of the realm they are exploring4 ,both find in harmony the object and the ending of the world's development4 ,conflicting with modern science at very many points1 visionary as both appear to be1 powerful expression is given to an idea of life both in the macrocosm and the microcosm1 the validity of which can be questioned only by materialism4 ,the idea of the one and the system of the other teach that when ,nature is affirmed in ,god it is in a figurative and symbolical sense3--that it is1 in comparison with what we call nature1 something infinitely more subtle and super-material than matter2 that it is the source of matter2 a plenitude of living forces and energies4 ,this system teaches1 as ,waterdale has expressed it1 the existence of a ,great ,almighty1 as being in virtue of the perfect organization of the universe1 even as the existence of man is incidental to the organic structure of his body2 and that the attribute of omniscience is represented by the perfect conveyance of signs of atomic movement in vibratory action through the length and breadth of our universe4 ,we are led by it to look from nature up to nature's ,god and to comprehend the attributes of deity as never before in any other system4 ,it lays hold1 with a giant's grasp1 of the heart of the problems which science is wrestling with4 ,it answers the question asked by ,professor ,oliver ,lodge in his paper1 read at ,cardiff1 last ,august1 ,by what means is force exerted1 and what definitely is force8 ,it was a bold speculation of ,professor ,lodge1 who is known as a very careful and sober physicist1 when1 after admitting that there is herein something not provided for in the orthodox scheme of physics1 he suggested that good physicists should carry their appropriate methods of investigation into the field of psychology1 admitting that a line of possible advance lies in this direction4 ,without speculation science could never advance in any direction2 discussion precedes reform1 there can be no progress without it4 ,it required rare courage for a physicist to step from the serried ranks that have always been ready to point their javelins at psychologists1 and to show1 with the torch of science1 the hand on the signpost at the cross roads pointing in the right direction4 ,it is the great high road of knowledge2 but those who would explore it must do so with cautious tread1 until the system of sympathetic association is completed which ,keely is bringing to birth1 for the road is bordered with pitfalls and quicksands and the mists of ignorance envelop it4 ,ernest ,renan1 in ,the ,future of ,science1 illustrates the thesis that1 henceforth1 the advancement of civilization is to be the work of science2 the word science being used in its largest signification as covering intellectual achievement in every direction open to the mind1 and the co-ordination of the results in a progressive philosophy of life4 ,the fundamental distinction which is expressed or implied1 on every page1 is that the earlier processes of civilization belong to an age of spontaneity1 of unreflective productivity2 an age that expressed itself in myths1 created religions1 organized social forms and habits1 in harmony with the spontaneous creations2 and that we have now entered upon the critical1 defining1 intellectual age2 in short1 as ,mr4 ,nisbet has said1 that the evolution of the human race has passed from the physiological into the psychical field2 and that it is in the latter alone1 henceforward1 that progress may be looked for toward a higher civilization4 #ag ,philosophy1 that is to say1 rational research1 is alone capable of solving the question of the future of humanity1 says ,renan4 ,the really efficacious revolution1 that which will give its shape to the future1 will not be a political1 it will be a religious and moral revolution4 ,politics has exhausted its resources for solving this problem4 ,the politician is the offscouring of humanity1 not its inspired teacher4 ,the great revolution can only come from men of thought and sentiment4 ,it does not do to expect too much from governments4 ,it is not for them to reveal to humanity the law for which it is in search4 ,what humanity needs is a moral law and creed2 and it is from the depths of human nature that they will emerge1 and not from the well-trodden and sterile pathways of the official world4 ,in order to know whence will come a better understanding of the religion which ,christ taught1 the religion of the future1 we must always look in the direction of liberty1 equality1 and fraternity4 ,not the ,french ,commune liberty to cut one another's throats 7an equality of misery1 and a fraternity of crime71 but that liberty to know and to love the truth of things which constitutes true religion1 and which when it is bestowed without money and without price1 as it will be1 humanity will accomplish the remainder1 without asking anyone for permission4 ,no one can say from what part of the sky will appear the star of this new redemption4 ,the one thing certain is that the shepherds and the ,magi will be once more the first to perceive it1 that the germ of it is already formed1 and that if we were able to see the present with the eyes of the future1 we should be able to distinguish1 in the complication of the hour1 the imperceptible fibre which will bear life for the future4 ,it is amid putrefaction that the germ of future life is developed1 and no one has the right to say1 ,this is a rejected stone1 for that stone may be the corner-stone of the future edifice4 ,human nature is without reproach1 continues ,renan 7,l',avenir de la ,science71 and proceeds toward the perfect by means of forms successively and diversely imperfect4 ,all the ideas which primitive science had formed of the world appear narrow1 trivial1 and ridiculous to us after that which progressive research has proven to be true4 ,the fact is that science has only destroyed her dreams of the past1 to put in their stead a reality a thousand times superior2 but were science to remain what it is1 we should have to submit to it while cursing it1 for it has destroyed and not builded up again2 it has awakened man from a sweet sleep without smoothing the reality to him4 ,what science gives us is not enough1 we are still hungry4 ,true science is that which belongs neither to the school nor the drawing-room1 but which corresponds exactly to the wants of man4 ,hence true science is a religion which will solve for men the eternal problems1 the solution of which his nature imperatively demands4 ,herein lies the hope of humanity2 for1 like a wild beast1 the uneducated masses stand at bay2 ready to turn and rend those who are willing to keep them in their present condition1 in order to be able to make them answer their own purposes4444 ,i am firmly convinced1 continues ,renan1 for my own part1 that unless we make haste and elevate the people1 we are upon the eve of a terrible outbreak of barbarism4 ,for if the people triumph in their present state1 it will be worse than it was with the ,franks and ,vandals4 ,they will destroy of their own accord the instrument which might have served to elevate them2 we shall then have to wait until civilization once more emerges spontaneously from the profound depths of nature4 ,morality1 like politics1 is summed up1 then1 in this grand saying3 ,to elevate the people4 ,if ,i were to see humanity collapse on its own foundations1 mankind again slaughter one another in some fateful hour1 ,i should still go on proclaiming that perfection is human nature's final aim1 and that the day must come when reason and perfection shall reign supreme4 ,sailing1 sailing in the same staunch ship-- ,we are sailing on together2 ,we see the rocks and we mark the shoals1 ,and we watch for cyclone weather4 ,the perils we run for one alone ,are perils for all together1-- ,the harbour we make for one alone1 ,makes haven for all1 through the weather4 ,stand by your ship3 be brave1 brothers mine6 ,be brave1 for we'll stand together6 ,we'll yet reach the port for which we sail ,in this black and stormy weather4 ,sailing1 sailing the same stormy sea1 ,we are sailing all together6 ,there are rocks ahead and shoals beneath1 ,and 'round us hurricane weather4 ,i see in the ,west a star arise1 ,that will guide us all together3-- ,stand firm by your helm and trust in ,god ,who pilots us through this weather4 ,the dawn of morning breaks in the skies ,which will bring mankind together2-- ,to havens of peace1 to havens of bliss1 ,we'll ride through this cyclone weather4 ,clara ,jessup ,moore4 ,,chapter ,,xvi4 #ahia4 ,,an ,,appeal ,,in ,,behalf ,,of ,,the ,,continuance ,,of ,,keely',s ,,researches4 ,there is a distinct advantage in having one section of scientific men beginning their work untrammelled by preconceived notions4--,engineering4 ,a knowledge of scientific theories seems to kill all knowledge of scientific facts4--,professor ,schuster4 ,tizeau found that the speed of light is increased in water which moves in the same direction as the light4 ,this result must be due either to the motion of matter through the medium1 or to the fact that moving matter carries the ether with it4 ,the whole question of matter and motion as a medium is a vital one1 and we shall hardly make any serious advance before experiment has found a new opening4--,professor ,schuster4 ,how ,mr4 ,keely1 in #ahia1 was ,able ,to ,secure the ,attention ,of ,men of ,science ,to ,his ,researching ,experiments4 ,during the summer of #ahij1 ,mr4 ,keely was harassed by threats1 said to proceed from disappointed stockholders in the ,keely ,motor ,company1 of suits at law for obtaining money under false pretences4 ,after making many unsuccessful attempts with the editors of leading magazines in ,london1 ,boston1 and ,new ,york1 to bring before the public the claims of ,mr4 ,keely for sympathy in his colossal work1 the proposals of an editor1 on the staff of the ,london ,times 7who had the year before introduced himself to ,mrs4 ,bloomfield ,moore to obtain information of ,keely7 to make known the researches of the persecuted discoverer and his need of assistance1 at that time1 were accepted4 ,the programme1 as laid out by this editor1 was to use his extended influence with the leading journals throughout ,great ,britain1 and to have brief notices of ,keely inserted2 to be followed up with a magazine article1 for which the material was furnished4 ,later this arrangement was modified by the editor1 who then proposed to write an essay for some influential journal1 handling the various molecular and atomic theories2 pointing out wherein ,keely's views were original1 and showing their revolutionizing tendencies4 ,this work1 which was to have been commenced in ,november1 was delayed until all need was over4 ,when the editor wrote to ,philadelphia in ,january1 #ahia1 that he had been unable to commence his work for want of sufficient material 7enclosing questions to be answered by ,mr4 ,keely before he could set about it71 the answer returned was that the threatened troubles were over1 that ,mr4 ,keely had gained the protection of men of science1 and the order for the essay was countermanded4 ,at this very time a subscription was in circulation to raise money from disaffected stockholders for the purpose of bringing the threatened action at law1 in case ,mr4 ,keely did not resume work on his engine1 instead of pursuing researches in order to gain more knowledge of the operation of this unknown polar force in nature4 ,it was at this juncture that the late ,professor ,joseph ,leidy1 that eminent man of science who had been the first to recognize the importance of ,keely's discovery to the scientific world1 arranged with the ,provost of the ,university of ,pennsylvania that an appeal should be made to the trustees1 the faculty and the professors of that institution1 to permit ,keely to continue his researches for science under their protection4 ,accordingly1 on the #adth of ,january1 #ahia1 a paper entitled ,keely's ,discoveries was read at the house of ,provost ,pepper4 ,the answer sent by one of the professors1 in reply to ,dr4 ,pepper's invitation1 probably expressed the views held by all the distinguished men who assembled to listen to the appeal1 which was to the effect that the professor would be present to hear the paper read1 if the ,provost wished it2 but1 if he came1 he should make it very unpleasant for the reader1 as he had no faith in ,keely nor in his discoveries4 ,all those who were present listened with attention1 and among the few who became interested in the claims of ,keely as a discoverer1 was the professor who had made this remark4 ,the preamble to the appeal was read by the ,provost1 ,dr4 ,pepper4 ,preamble4 ,before commencing to read my paper ,i wish to lay before you the object of this effort to interest men of science in the researches of a man who1 in the cause of justice alone1 is entitled to have his life's work fairly represented to you4 ,some of our men of science have1 unwittingly1 been the medium by which great injustice has been done to ,mr4 ,keely2 and to others also1 by placing me before the world as a woman whom the ,keely ,motor ,company management has robbed of large sums of money2 whereas1 in truth1 ,i have never been in any way involved by the ,keely ,motor ,company4 ,in the winter of #ahha-hb1 ,mr4 ,keely1 who was dependent upon ,the ,keely ,motor ,company for the means to continue his researches1 as to the nature of the unknown force he had discovered1 was virtually abandoned by the ,company4 ,himself as ignorant as were its managers of the source of the mysterious energy he had stumbled over1 he was driven to despair by their action2 and1 when ,i was led to his assistance1 ,i found his wife's roof mortgaged over her head1 and that1 his honour assailed1 he had resolved to take his life rather than submit to the indignities threatening him4 ,at this time ,i had taken from my private estate ten thousand dollars1 to found a small public library to my father's memory1 in the town of ,westfield1 ,hampden ,co41 ,massachusetts4 ,after convincing myself that ,mr4 ,keely had made a great discovery1 ,i felt that if this money could save his discovery1 jeopardized as it was1 it was my duty to so appropriate it4 ,at that time1 ,mr4 ,keely thought half of the amount so appropriated would be all that he should require2 but1 unfortunately1 his efforts were for years confined to the construction of an engine for the ,company that had abandoned him4 ,later1 he commenced researches which resulted in the discovery that he had unknowingly imprisoned the ether2 greatly increasing my interest in his work4 ,the plan to which ,i shall allude in my paper1 as framed by ,professor ,leidy for ,mr4 ,keely to follow1 and approved by ,professor ,hertz1 of ,bonn1 and ,professor ,fitzgerald1 of ,trinity ,college1 ,dublin1 may be summed up as one that permits ,mr4 ,keely to pursue his researches on his own line1 without further investigation1 up to the completion of his system in a form which will enable him to give to commerce with one hand his model for aerial navigation1 and to science1 with the other1 the knowledge that is necessary for extending its researches in the field of radiant energy--which ,mr4 ,keely has been exploring for so many years4 ,i ask the prestige of your sympathy1 as well as for your interest in ,mr4 ,keely's work1 on this basis2 and if in one year you are not convinced that satisfactory results have been attained for science1 ,i will promise to leave ,mr4 ,keely in the hands of the usurers and ,shylocks of commerce1 who have already forced him into renouncing seven-eighths of his interest in what the ,keely ,motor ,company claims as its property4 ,at present ,i do not desire from anyone endorsement of ,keely's discoveries4 ,until his system is completed he wishes to avoid all discussion and all public mention of the anticipated value of his inventions4 ,mr4 ,keely's programme of experimental research1 as laid down by himself last ,march1 when ,i first proposed to furnish him with all the funds needed to carry it out1 comprises its continuance until he has gained sufficient knowledge of the energy he is controlling--which is derived from the disintegration of water--to enable him to impart to others a system that will permit men of science to produce and to handle the energy1 and enable him to instruct artisans in the work which lies in their province2 viz41 the construction of machines to apply this costless motive power in mechanics4 ,the prestige of your interest in ,mr4 ,keely's labours can alone secure to him freedom to pursue researches on his own road2 a course pronounced by ,professor ,leidy1 ,professor ,hertz1 and ,professor ,fitzgerald1 to be the only proper line for him to pursue4 ,the building of an engine is not in ,mr4 ,keely's province4 ,his researches completed to that point which is necessary1 for perfect control of the force1 practical application will follow4 ,the result of his experimental work for nine months on this line has been such as to revive the interest of the speculative management of the ,keely ,motor ,company1 to that extent that ,mr4 ,keely is now offered the support of its stockholders if he will resume construction of an engine2 and this after more than seven years of failure on the part of the company to furnish him with one dollar to carry on the enterprise4 ,the official ,report put forth in ,january by the ,keely ,motor ,company managers annulled my contract with ,mr4 ,keely2 but he is willing to abide by it1 if ,i am able to continue to furnish him with the necessary funds4 ,this position of affairs has forced me to the front1 to ask whether you will place it in my power to renew the contract with ,mr4 ,keely2 or leave him under the control of men who seem to be oblivious of the interests of the stockholders of the company in their clamour for an engine4 ,when this system is completed1 in its application to mechanics1 the present mode of running engines with shafts and beltings will disappear1 creating a revolution in all branches of industry4 ,looking at my request from another point of view1 do you not think it due to extend to ,mr4 ,keely an opportunity to prove all that one of your number is ready to announce as his conviction in regard to the claims of ,mr4 ,keely8 ,you all know to whom ,i refer--,professor ,joseph ,leidy4 ,oh1 ,leidy is a biologist1 said an ,english physicist not long since2 get the opinion of a physicist for us4 ,if ,i did not wish for the opinion of physicists1 ,i should not have appealed to you for help at this most critical juncture4 ,but ,i also ask that no opinion be given by any physicist until ,mr4 ,keely's theories are understood and demonstrated1 by experiment4 ,yes1 ,dr4 ,leidy is a biologist1 and what better preparation could a man have than a study of the science of life to enable him to discern between laws of nature as invented by physicists1 and nature's operations as demonstrated by ,keely8 ,the science of life has not been the only branch to which ,dr4 ,leidy has given profound attention2 it is his extensive and accurate knowledge of its methods1 limits1 and tendencies1 which prepared the way for that quick comprehension of possibilities1 lying hidden from the sight of those men of science whose minds have rested 7rusted87 in the dead grooves of mechanical physics4 ,in ,dr4 ,leidy we find entire scientific and intellectual liberty of thought1 with that love of justice and truth which keeps its possessor from arrogance and intolerance1 leading him with humility to prove all things and hold fast to truth4 ,to such men the world owes all that we have of advance since the days when science taught that the earth is flat1 arguing that were it round the seas and oceans would fall off into space4 ,in ,dr4 ,leidy's name and in justice to him1 ,i ask your sanction to and approval of my efforts to preserve ,keely's discoveries for science2--discoveries which explain1 not only the causes of the planetary motions but the source of the one eternal and universal force4 ,an ,appeal in ,behalf of ,science4 ,a paper read by ,mrs4 ,bloomfield ,moore at the house of ,provost ,pepper on the evening of ,january #adth1 #ahia1 before members of the board of trustees and professors of the ,university of ,pennsylvania4 ,each day he wrought1 and better than he planned1 ,shape breeding shape beneath his restless hand2 ,the soul without still helps the soul within1 ,and its deft magic ends what we begin4 ,george ,eliot4 ,i hope that ,i do not seem to be too presumptuous in my effort to awaken an interest1 on your part1 in the discoveries of ,keely which have aroused a marked degree of attention among some of the most learned men in ,europe4 ,i should hardly have ventured to ask the prestige of your support to be given to ,mr4 ,keely1 in his further scientific researches1 were it not that one of your number fully realizes1 ,i think1 the important nature of these researches4 ,you all know to whom ,i refer--,professor ,joseph ,leidy4 ,in his book1 ,fresh ,water ,rhizopods of ,north ,america1 he says1 in his concluding remarks3 ,i may perhaps continue in the same field of research and give to the reader further results1 but ,i cannot promise to do so1 for though the subject has proved to me an unceasing source of pleasure ,i see before me so many wonderful things in other fields1 that a strong impulse disposes me to leap the hedges to examine them4 ,i have reason to know that1 had ,dr4 ,leidy not followed this impulse1 our age might have been robbed of its birthright4 ,it was not until ,i appealed to ,professor ,leidy and ,dr4 ,willcox1 to convince themselves whether ,i was right or wrong in extending aid to ,mr4 ,keely1 that their decision enabled me to continue to assist him until he has once more made such advances1 in experimental research1 as to cause the managers of the ,keely ,motor ,company to believe that his engine is near completion1 and that they can dispense with outside assistance hereafter4 ,but ,i know as it has been in the past so will it be again1 and that1 as the months glide away1 if no engine is completed1 the company will once more desert the discoverer2 while1 if he is allowed to pursue his researches1 up to the completion of his system under your protection1 his discoveries will be guarded for science1 and the interests of the stockholders will not be sacrificed to the greed of speculators1 as has so often been done in the past4 ,as ,i have had occasion to say1 elsewhere1 after the warning given in the history of ,huxley's ,bathybius1 ,professor ,leidy would not have risked his world-wide reputation by the endorsement of ,keely's claims1 as the discoverer of hidden energy in inter-molecular and atomic spaces1 had he not tested the demonstrations until fully convinced of the discovery of a force previously unknown to science1 and of the honesty of ,mr4 ,keely in his explanations4 ,therefore1 following the advice of ,professor ,g4 ,fr4 ,fitzgerald1 of ,dublin1 ,i do not ask for further investigations4 ,until ,professor ,leidy and ,dr4 ,willcox came to the front1 in ,may1 #ahia1 ,mr4 ,keely had no influential supporters1 and was under such a cloud1 from his connection with speculators1 that to advocate his integrity of purpose and to uphold the importance of his work1 was enough to awaken doubts as to the sanity of his upholders4 ,we are told by ,herodotus that science is to know things truly2 yet past experience shows us that what has been called knowledge at one period of time is proved to be but folly in another age4 ,science is to know things truly1 and the laws of nature are the same yesterday1 to-day1 and forever4 ,throughout the universe the same laws are at work and regulate all things4 ,men interpret these laws to suit their own ideas4 ,the system which ,keely is unfolding shows us that there is not one grain of sand1 nor one invisible corpuscule of floating matter1 that does not come under the same law that governs the most mighty planet1 and that all forms of matter are aggregated under one law4 ,the designs of the ,creator as expounded by our latest teachers1 writes ,gilman1 have required millions of ages to carry out4 ,they are so vast and complex that they can only be realized in the sweep of ages4 ,one design is subordinated by another without ever being lost sight of1 until the time has arrived for its complete fulfilment4 ,these designs involve an infinitude of effort1 ending often in what1 to our view1 looks like failure1 to be crowned after a series of ages with complete success at last4 ,in this long chain of physical causes1 says ,dr4 ,willcox1 seemingly endless1 but really commencing with that one link that touches the hand of ,him who made all matter1 and all potencies that dwell within matter1 this cosmical activity has been ceaseless1 these cosmical effects numerous past conception1 by which universal nature has slowly unfolded and become the universe of to-day4 ,in this way both ,christianity and science unfold their truths progressively4 ,truth1 like the laws of nature1 never changes2 yet truth as an absolute thing1 existing in and by itself1 is relatively capable of change2 for as the atoms hold in their tenacious grasp undreamed-of potencies1 so truths hold germs potential of all growth4 ,each new truth disclosed to the world1 when its hour of need comes1 unfolds and reveals undreamed-of means of growth4 ,as the ,rev4 ,george ,boardman has said of ,christianity1 so may it be said of science3 ,being a perennial vine1 it is ever yielding new wine4 ,a philosopher has said that if ever a human being needed divine pity it is the pseudo-scientist who believes in nothing but what he can prove by his own methods4 ,in the light of ,keely's discoveries1 science will have to admit that when she concentrates her attention upon matter1 to the exclusion of mind1 she is as the hunter who has no string in reserve for his bow4 ,when she recognizes that a full and adequate science of matter is impossible to man1 and that the science of mind is destined ultimately to attain to a much higher degree of perfection than the science of matter--that it will give the typical ideas and laws to which all the laws of physics must be referred--then science will be better supplied with strings than she now is1 to bring her quarry down4 ,it is ,professor ,leidy's and ,dr4 ,willcox's second strings1 to their bows1 which will enable you to secure to science the richest quarry that has ever been within its reach4 ,i know that the experience of ,professor ,rowland1 as related by him1 must have had the effect to prejudice you against ,mr4 ,keely4 ,professor ,fitzgerald writes to me on this subject3 ,i am sorry that ,mr4 ,keely did not cut the wire1 wherever ,professor ,rowland asked to have it cut1 because it will undoubtedly be said that he had some sinister reason for not doing so1 whatever his real reasons were2 but1 of course1 when one cuts a bit off a valuable string one prefers naturally to cut the bit off the end1 as ,keely did1 rather than out of the middle4 ,this very wire which ,mr4 ,keely did cut at one end1 twice1 for ,professor ,rowland1 one of the pieces falling into my hand1 is now in ,professor ,fitzgerald's possession4 ,it was the offensive manner of ,professor ,rowland when he seized the shears1 telling ,keely it was his guilty conscience which made him refuse to cut the wire1 and that it must be cut in the middle1 which put ,keely on the defensive1 causing him to refuse to allow ,professor ,rowland to cut it4 ,it would seem that the professor in the ,johns ,hopkins ,university1 from his remarks on that occasion1 thought1 instead of an experiment in negative attraction1 that ,keely was imposing upon the ignorant by giving a simple experiment in pneumatics1 familiar to all schoolboys4 ,professor ,rowland did not realize how low he was rating the powers of discernment of a professor in the ,university of ,pennsylvania who had witnessed ,keely's experiments again and again1 when his instruments or devices were in perfect working order4 ,mr4 ,keely1 who was ambitious to show ,professor ,rowland that his disintegrator had no connection with any concealed apparatus1 had suspended it from the ceiling by a staple4 ,the hook had given way1 and the jar to the instrument in falling to the floor disarranged its interior construction on that day4 ,to those who have not witnessed any of ,keely's experiments1 under favourable conditions1 his theories naturally seem vague speculations2 but not one theory has ,keely put forward1 as a theory1 which he has not demonstrated as having a solid foundation in fact4 ,some of our men of science once settled the problem of the origin of life to their own satisfaction1 only to learn in the end that speculation is not science2 but this very problem is one the solution of which ,keely now seems to be approaching4 ,it would become a matter of easy analysis1 writes ,keely1 if the properties governing the different orders of matter could be understood in their different evolutions4 ,the force of the mind on matter is an illustration of the power of the finer over the crude1 but the law making the crude forms of matter subservient to the finer or higher forms1 is an unknown law to finite minds4 ,buckle has asserted that the highest of our so called laws of nature are as yet purely empirical2 and that1 until some law is discovered which is connected with the laws of the mind that made it1 our knowledge has no sure basis4 ,so saturated has ,mr4 ,keely's mind been with his discovery of this law that he has contented himself to remain ignorant in physics1 as taught by the schools2 and also with simpler matters it would seem2 while testing and building up his hypotheses into a system which no one but himself can complete1 and which without completion must be lost to the world4 ,i should form a very poor opinion of the mind that would accept an hypothesis as anything more than the signpost at cross roads1 which points to the direction that may be taken4 ,in physics the very first fact to which the learner is introduced is already sophisticated by hypotheses4 ,every experiment in chemistry is but a member of a series1 all based upon some one or other of many hypotheses2 which are as necessary to the construction of a system as is the scaffolding which is used in building an edifice4 ,if the scaffolding proves unsound it does not affect the edifice1 as it can be at once replaced with material more solid4 ,so an hypothesis1 which is merely a conjecture or a suggestion1 cannot affect the solidity of a philosophy or a system4 ,it must be tested and found to support all the facts which bear upon it1 and capable of accounting for them1 before it can be accepted as a theory4 ,it is my wish to have the professors of the ,university of ,pennsylvania meet at my house the founder of a system which1 in my opinion1 embraces a pure philosophy3 to listen to his theories1 and to elicit from him such information as to the nature of his researches1 in what is called electro-magnetic radiation1 as ,i trust will convince them that ,i have not been pursuing a will-o'-the-wisp during the years that my mind has been concentrated on the work in which ,mr4 ,keely is engaged4 ,the bearings of this work are so various that ,i shall not have time to touch upon more than the one which interests me beyond any or all of the others2 namely1 its connection with the medical art4 ,appreciating as ,i do the life of self-denial which physicians who are devoted to their profession must lead1 and having in their ranks relatives and many warm friends on both sides of the ocean 7one of them1 my nephew1 ,dr4 ,jessup1 is here to-night7 ,i trust that what ,i say of the medical art will not be misconstrued4 ,the great sorrows of my life have come upon me through the ignorance of medical men1 who1 ,i know1 followed their best judgment in the course of treatment that they pursued in the illnesses of those dear to me4 ,when my children were in their infancy ,i had reason to embrace the opinions of ,professor ,magendie1 as set forth in one of his lectures before the students of his class in the ,allopathic ,college of ,paris4 ,these are his words3 ,i know medicine is called a science4 ,it is nothing like a science4 ,it is a great humbug4 ,doctors are mere empirics when they are not charlatans4 ,we are as ignorant as men can be4 ,who knows anything about medicine8 ,i do not1 nor do ,i know anyone who does know anything about it4 ,nature does a great deal2 imagination does a great deal1 doctors do d----h little when they do no harm4 ,later in life1 in #ahga1 ,i was sent1 while suffering with neurasthenia1 from ,paris to ,schwalbach ,baths by ,dr4 ,beylard1 who recommended me to the care of ,dr4 ,adolph ,genth2 to whom1 in my first interview1 ,i said3 ,i wish for your opinion1 and for your advice1 if you can give it to me without prescribing any medicine4 ,he replied3 ,with all my heart1 ,madam1 and ,i wish to ,god there were more women like you2 but we should soon lose our patients1 if we did not dose them4 ,a terrible excuse for the use of those agencies which ,dr4 ,john ,good has said have sent more human beings to their graves than war1 pestilence and famine combined4 ,one of ,mr4 ,keely's discoveries shapes his theory that all nervous and brain disorders may be cured by equating the differentiation that exists in the disordered structure4 ,when his system is completed1 medical men will have a new domain opened to them for experiment4 ,gross material agencies1 such as drugs1 will be replaced by the finer forces of nature3 light1 as taught by the late ,dr4 ,pancoast of our city1 and magnetism1 as experimented with by the late ,professor ,keil of ,jena1 showing the efficacy of the ordinary magnet in the cure of certain infirmities1--these experiments were communicated by him more than fifty years since to the ,royal ,society of ,london4 ,paracelsus taught that man is nourished and sustained by magnetic power1 which he called the universal motor of nature4 ,in ,switzerland1 in ,italy and in ,france1 the light-treatment is now being tested2 red light used in cases of melancholia2 blue light in cases of great nervous excitement1 operating like magic in some instances4 ,dr4 ,oscar ,jennings1 the electrician at ,st4 ,anne's ,hospital for the ,insane in ,paris1 tells me that students1 versed in ,biblical lore1 declare that the esoteric teachings of the ,book of ,job enunciate a system of light-cure4 ,ostensibly because of my faith in the importance of ,keely's discoveries1 as opening up new fields of research to medical men1 an invalid daughter 7suffering from puerperal mania after the birth of her third child7 was taken from me1 in conformance with orders of the ,swedish guardian of her monied interests in ,sweden1 and ,i was summoned before the ,police ,direction1 in ,vienna1 and required to bind myself not to experiment upon my child4 ,it is well known to the ,london experts in mental disorders1 the most distinguished of whom ,i have consulted1 that my daughter's treatment1 while she was under my care1 had been confined to giving no medicine1 forcing no food1 and such changes from time to time in her surroundings as she needed1 with a few electric baths4 ,the orthodox practice of medicine is nothing more and nothing less than a system of blind experiment1 as it has been called4 ,at the opening of a clinical society in ,london1 ,sir ,thomas ,watson said3 ,we try this and not succeeding we try that1 and baffled again we try something else4 ,other eminent medical men have given utterance to these aphorisms3 ,the science of medicine is founded on conjecture and improved by murder2 ,mercury has made more cripples than war2 ,ninety-nine medical facts are medical lies2 ,every dose of medicine is a blind experiment2 ,the older physicians grow the more sceptical they become of the virtues of their own medicines4 ,dr4 ,ridge said3 ,everything in nature is acknowledged to be governed by law4 ,it is singular1 however1 that while science endeavours to reduce this to actual fact in all other studies1 those of health and disease have not hitherto been arranged under any law whatever4 ,keely's system1 should he live to complete it1 will show that nature works under one law in everything2 that discord is disease1 that harmony is health4 ,he believes that nervous and brain disorders are curable2 but he will never have the leisure to enter this field of research himself1 and it will be left for physicians to pursue their experiments to that point where they shall be able to decide whether he is right or wrong4 ,this is why ,i seek to interest medical men in ,keely's belief2 his theories of latent energy he is able to handle without help1 and to demonstrate a solid foundation for them on facts4 ,nothing can lie like a fact1 said ,velpeau4 ,but nature's laws are infallible facts1 and the facts referred to by ,velpeau are of the order of the fallible ones enunciated by science1 such as ,the atom is indivisible4 ,the atom is infinitely divisible1 says ,keely1 repeating ,schopenhauer's words1 whose writings ,i dare say he has never read4 ,professor ,george ,fr4 ,fitzgerald1 of ,trinity ,college1 ,dublin1 in closing a lecture delivered before the ,british ,association last ,march1 on ,electro-magnetic ,radiation1 enunciates a possible theory of ether and matter4 ,this hypothesis1 he says1 explains the differences in nature as differences of motion4 ,if it be true1 ether and matter--gold1 air1 wood1 brains--are but different motions4 ,you will be able to judge of the marvellous mechanism invented by ,keely1 for his researches1 when ,i tell you that by his demonstrations with these instruments1 he is able to place this hypothesis in the rank of theories1 boldly announcing that all motion is thought1 and that all force is mind force4 ,with a clearness that characterizes his great brain he has plunged through the deep and broad questions surrounding the mechanism of the universe1 and he claims1 on behalf of science1 as did the late ,provost ,jellett of the ,british ,association1 the right to prosecute its investigations until it attains to a mechanical explanation of all things4 ,in this lecture ,professor ,fitzgerald1 commenting upon ,professor ,hertz's experiments in the vibration of ether waves1 says3 ,if there is reason to think that any greater oscillation might disintegrate the atom1 we are still a long way from it4 ,does not this statement border on an admission that the atom may be divisible8 ,those who are pursuing their researches in this field are farther off than they know from the great central truth which ,faraday did not live long enough to reach1 although conjectured by him4 ,we have not only ,faraday's discoveries1 but those of ,scheele1 the ,swedish chemist1 as an example of exact observations leading to erroneous conclusions4 ,the investigations of ,scheele led up to the rich harvest which has since been reaped from a knowledge of the nature of the compounds of organic chemistry4 ,scheele was one of the founders of quantitative analysis1 but the phlogistic theory advanced by him was overthrown--the fate of all theories which are not based on solid foundations4 ,faraday admitted that his own ideas on gravitating force1 and of the ether1 were but vague impressions of his mind thrown out as matter for speculation4 ,he left no theory on these lines1 for he had nothing to offer as the result of demonstration1 nor even of sufficient consideration to broach a theory3 merely impressions1 which are allowable for a time as guides to thought and farther research4 ,yet more than once did these speculations of his giant intellect touch upon one of nature's hidden laws1 the greatest one yet made known to man4 ,had ,faraday lived long enough to pursue his researches1 from his starting point of conjecture1 he would have been1 without doubt1 instead of ,keely1 the discoverer of the latent or hidden potencies existing in all forms of matter1 visible and invisible4 ,but the physicists of his time looked upon his speculations as contrary to the received dogmas of science1 and preferred their own errors to his speculations4 ,they saw the signpost1 but took the road directly opposite to the one ,faraday had pointed out4 ,it is admitted that even a false theory1 when rightly constructed1 has its uses1 and that1 instead of hindering1 it hastens the advance of knowledge4 ,every one1 possessing the slightest acquaintance with the history of astronomy1 knows that the doctrines of cycles1 epicycles and ellipses1 were begotten naturally and necessarily out of each other2 and that if ,kepler had not propounded speculative errors ,newton would not have hit upon speculative truth4 ,it has been said that when men of science disclaim hypotheses1 or speculation1 they are either unfit for their vocation or1 like ,newton1 they are better than their creed4 ,hypotheses are at once the effect and the cause of progress4 ,one might as well attempt to preserve and employ an army without organization as to preserve and employ phenomena without a theory to weld them into one4 ,but the theory must be provisionally1 if not positively1 true2 it must be intelligible and consistent2 it must explain a greater number of facts and reconcile a greater variety of apparent contradictions than any which has preceded it2 and it must have become developed not by the addition merely1 but by the addition and solution1 of subsidiary explanations4 ,i ask of you an examination of ,keely's theories before giving an opinion of them4 ,time only can decide whether ,keely's hypotheses and theories will outlive these tests4 ,if not1 his system must be overthrown1 as past systems have been1 to make room for a better one4 ,all that ,i ask is that he may have the opportunity to develop it under your encouragement4 ,there are scientists in ,europe ready to assist him with pecuniary assistance4 ,they know enough--those who are interested in his discoveries--to know that they can help him in no other way4 ,professor ,hertz of ,bonn1 said to me3 ,keely must work out his system himself to that point where he can instruct physicists to repeat his experiments4 ,picking up a photograph of ,keely's instruments of research1 grouped together1 he added3 ,no man is likely to be a fraud who is working on these lines4 ,science is alert1 on tiptoe as it were1 waiting for the one mighty explanation of the force1 behind the framework of nature1 which has hitherto eluded its skill2 and which the system of ,keely makes clear to the understanding1 demonstrating that one power1 one law1 reigns throughout creation2 the immaterial controlling the material1 after the divine order and law of creation that the immaterial should govern the material--that the whole realm of matter is under the dominion of the immaterial4 ,but the known always excludes the unknown when in opposition to it4 ,as in past generations1 so now in ours1 physicists have said3 ,we will not waste our time in looking at facts and phenomena which cannot be accepted in opposition to established principles of science and to known laws of nature2 and which1 even if we beheld we should not believe4 ,the recognition and practical application of new truths are1 as has been said1 notoriously slow processes4 ,harvey's beneficent discovery excited vehement opposition from his contemporaries4 ,professor ,riolan combated this discovery with as much obstinacy as violence2 even denying the existence and the functions of lymphatic vessels4 ,harvey himself united with ,riolan in opposing the discoveries of ,aselli and ,pacquet respecting the lymphatic system4 ,jenner's discovery met with the same opposition1 and more than forty years elapsed before the suggestion of ,sir ,humphrey ,davy became of practical use4 ,mr4 ,wills was so affected by the ridicule which he encountered in his experiments with nitrous oxide in destroying physical pain1 that he abandoned them4 ,nearly half a century later ,dr4 ,morton was assailed by several of our journals in ,america for the use of ether in producing ansthesia2 as also was ,sir ,james ,simpson for his use of ether and chloroform4 ,the scientists excommunicated ,dr4 ,wigan1 who had proved by anatomical examination that each brain-hemisphere is a perfect brain2 that we have1 in fact1 two brains1 as we have two eyes and two ears4 ,his experiences as a physician were declared to be impostures or delusions2 his deductions fallacious4 ,they could not be true1 because they were inconsistent with the established principles of physiology and mental science4 ,and with such experiences in the past1 we should keep in mind that the powers of nature are so mysterious and inscrutable that men must be cautious in limiting them to the ordinary laws of experience4 ,proclus wrote of the power of mind or will to set up certain vibrations--not in the grosser atmospheric particles whose undulations beget light1 sound1 heat1 electricity--but in the latent immaterial principle of force1 of which modern science knows scarcely anything4 ,what is beyond their own power1 men cannot comprehend to be in the power of others4 ,said ,sextus3 ,if by magic you mean a perpetual research among all that is most latent and obscure in nature1 ,i profess that magic1 and he who does so comes nearer to the fountain of all knowledge4 ,sir ,isaac ,newton said3 ,it is well known that bodies act upon one another by the attractions of gravity1 magnetism and electricity2 and these instances show the tenour and course of nature1 and make it not improbable that there may be more powers of attraction than these4 ,for nature is very consonant and conformable to herself4 ,with such intimations of the hidden force that is ever in operation1 behind the framework of nature1 shall we1 because it is hidden from science1 refuse to listen to the explanations which ,mr4 ,keely is now prepared to give8 ,all nature is a compound of conflicting1 and therefore of counter-balancing and equilibrating1 forces4 ,without this there could be no such thing as stability4 ,in nature nothing is great and nothing is little1 writes ,figuier4 ,sir ,henry ,roscoe says3 ,the structure of the smallest particle1 invisible even to our most searching vision1 may be as complicated as that of any of the heavenly bodies which circle around our sun4 ,if you admit this1 as stated by one of your own orthodox scientists1 why refuse to admit the possibility of the subdivision of all corpuscles of matter1 which ,keely declares can be done by certain orders of vibration1 thus showing up new elements8 ,i do not ask endorsement of ,keely's theories2 but if physicists did not think it possible to rupture the atom1 would they be calculating the chances of doing so1 as ,professor ,fitzgerald has done8 ,why not admit that certain tenets of science may prove to be nothing more than hypotheses1 too hastily adopted as theories1 and that ,keely has succeeded1 as he claims1 to have discovered the order of vibration1 which by increasing the oscillation of the atom1 causes it to rupture itself8 ,this introductory impulse is given at forty-two thousand eight hundred vibrations1 instead of one hundred millions2 which1 having been reached by ,professor ,hertz1 failed to tear apart the atom1 and convinced ,professor ,fitzgerald of the long way off that they still are from rupturing it4 ,but even this conclusion was arrived at under an erroneous hypothesis2 for the atomic charge does not oscillate across the diameter of the atom1 and its possible radiating power was calculated on this hypothesis4 ,again1 as to the canons of science1 which are proved by ,mr4 ,keely's researches to be erroneous3 take the one which teaches that molecular aggregation is ever attended with dissipation of energy4 ,from whence1 then1 comes the immense force which is liberated from the constituents of gunpowder by its exciter1 fire8--which is a certain order of vibration4 ,concussion1 another order of vibration1 releases the hidden energy stored in the molecules of dynamite1 which tears the rocks asunder as if they were egg-shells4 ,still another order of vibration1 which ,keely has discovered1 dissociates the supposed elements of water1 releasing from its corpuscular embrace almost immeasurable volumes of force4 ,the discoverer of this law of nature has long been harassed and made to feel like a galley-slave chained to a rock1 while with ,prometheus aspirations he is seeking to bring down fire and light from heaven for his fellow-men4 ,when ,professor ,leidy followed his impulse to leap the hedge which divided his special field of research from the domain that ,keely was exploring1 his was the first effort made by a man of science to save to the world the hidden knowledge bestowed upon one who1 in my opinion1 is alone capable of completing his system in a form to transmit this knowledge to others4 ,i doubt not that this will seem to you as the language of fanaticism2 but my convictions do not come from things hoped for4 ,they are the result of the evidence of things seen1 year after year1 for nearly a decade of years4 ,as a school-girl1 fifty years ago1 ,i had the privilege of attending courses of lectures at ,yale ,college1 where experiments were given in natural philosophy and in chemistry2 which kept up the interest that was awakened in earlier years2 when1 with my mineral hammer and basket1 my father took me in his walks1 laying the foundation of that love of true science which has made the discoveries of ,keely of such intense interest to me4 ,superficial as was and still is my knowledge of science1 in its various branches1 my interest has never abated2 and thus1 by my course of reading1 ,i have kept myself abreast of the most advanced writers of modern thought1 preparing the way for the help that ,i have been able to give ,mr4 ,keely by putting books into his hands which1 after more than twelve years of blind struggles to grapple with the force he had stumbled over1 helped him to comprehend its nature1 sooner than he would have done had he been left to work out his conjectures unaided1 he tells me4 ,marvellous as is the extent of ,keely's knowledge of vibratory physics1 ,i doubt very much whether he knows enough of mechanical physics to perform the trickery which ,professor ,rowland accused him of attempting4 ,of course every one is looking for a trick where ,keely is concerned1 writes a ,baltimore man2 and1 so long as speculations in the stock of the ,keely ,motor ,company are authorized by the managers of that company1 or efforts made to dispose of it before any practical result is attained1 so long will ,keely be unjustly suspected of being in league with them to obtain money under false pretences4 ,it was after six or seven years of failure on the part of the stockholders of the company to furnish ,keely with one dollar1 even1 that ,i made a contract with him in ,april1 #ahij1 to supply all that he needed for the completion of his system2 having first received the assurance of ,mr4 ,keely's lawyer that he would carry out the united wishes of ,mr4 ,keely and myself4 ,at that time this announcement was made in the public journals3-- ,there has been placed in the hands of ,professor ,leidy a fund for the use of inventor ,john ,w4 ,keely4 ,the stipulation attached is that no use shall be made of the financial assistance for speculative purposes4 ,this provision1 which is made in the interests of the ,keely ,motor ,company as well as for science1 will end with the first attempt to speculate on the stock by exhibitions given of the operations of unpatentable engines4 ,professor ,leidy holds the fund at his disposition1 and will pay all bills for instruments constructed for researching purposes4 ,the report issued last month by the directors of the ,keely ,motor ,company annulled this contract2 and it now remains for your board to decide whether ,i shall1 in behalf of science1 continue to supply ,mr4 ,keely with the means of continuing his researches1 under the protecting auspices of the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 or leave him in the hands of those who are so blind to their own interests1 as holders of stock in the ,keely ,motor ,company1 they cannot be made to see that their only hope of commercial success lies in the completion of the system that ,keely is developing2 and that the course proposed by ,professor ,leidy1 and commended by ,professor ,hertz and ,professor ,fitzgerald1 for ,keely to follow1 is the only one that will ever enable him to complete it4 ,this system is as much a work of evolution as is any one of the slow operations of nature4 ,truth can afford to wait3 she knows that the ,creator of all things never hurries4 ,in these twenty years of toil ,keely's patient perseverance has been godlike4 ,it is the sharpest rebuke that could be uttered to those whose impatient hue and cry has been1 ,give us a commercial engine and we will immortalize you2--grinding from him1 meantime1 seven-eighths of his interests in his inventions4 ,but in his labours ,keely finds a recompense that1 as yet1 the world knows not of2 for day by day he sees the once1 to him1 obscure domain lit up with ever-increasing glory2 a domain the boundaries of which are the boundaries of the universe3 the entrance into which promises the fulfilment of the hopes of those who look forward to a time when we shall no longer go to the blind to lead the blind in our search to make life worth living2 but1 instead1 be able to promote1 in accordance with scientific method and in harmony with law1 the physical1 intellectual and moral evolution of our race4 ,as of ,newton1 with the change of one word only1 so one day will it be said of ,keely3-- ,all intellectual eye--our solar round ,first gazing through1 he by the blended power ,of laws etheric1 universal1 saw ,the whole in silent harmony revolve4 ,what were his raptures then6 ,how pure6 ,how strong6 ,and what the triumphs of old ,greece and ,rome ,with his compared8 ,when ,nature and her laws ,stood all disclosed to him1 and open laid ,their every hidden glory to his view4 ,on the #bcrd of ,march1 following the reading of this address1 ,professor ,koenig1 who had become deeply interested in ,mr4 ,keely's researches1 wrote3-- ,with regard to the experiments1 which ,i saw at ,mr4 ,keely's1 ,i venture upon the following suggestion1 as a test of the nature of the force ,mr4 ,keely is dealing with4 ,the revolution of the compass as a result of negative polar attraction4 ,it is stated in ,mr4 ,keely's paper that he finds gold1 silver1 platinum1 to be excellent media for the transmission of these triple currents4 ,now it is well known that these same metals are most diamagnetic1 that is1 unaffected by magnetic influences4 ,if1 therefore1 a needle be made of one of these metals and suspended in place of the steel needle1 in the compass1 and put under the influence of ,mr4 ,keely's force1 it ought to revolve the same as the steel needle will under magnetic and polar and anti-polar influence4 ,if ,mr4 ,keely could make such a needle revolve1 it would convince me that he is dealing with a force unknown to physicists4 ,to this requirement ,mr4 ,keely replied3 ,to run a needle1 composed of non-magnetic material1 by polar and depolar action is a matter of as infinite impossibility as would be the raising of a heavy weight from the bottom of a well by sucking a vacuum in it1 or the inhalation of water into the lungs instead of air1 to sustain life4 ,however1 at ,dr4 ,brinton's suggestion1 ,mr4 ,keely took up a line of research that was new to him1 and succeeded in making a needle of the three metals1 gold1 silver and platinum1 rotate by differential molecular action2 induced by negative attractive outreach1 which is as free of magnetic force as a cork4 ,professor ,brinton had so mastered ,keely's working hypotheses as to say1 early in ,april1 that he was sure he could make them understood by any intelligent person--writing of them3 ,all that is needed now is to show that ,keely's experiments sustain the principles that underlie these hypotheses4 ,as soon as ,professor ,koenig is prepared to report on the purely technical and physical character of the experiments1 ,i shall be ready to go into full details as to their significance in reference to both matter and mind4 ,it will be enough for me if ,dr4 ,koenig is enabled simply to say that the force handled by ,keely is not any one of the already well-known forces4 ,let him say that1 and ,i will undertake to say what it is4 ,on the evening of the #acth of ,april1 the ,provost of the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 with others who were invited1 met at ,mrs4 ,moore's house to hear the report of the observation of ,mr4 ,keely's researching experiments4 ,the result was not made public2 as it was desired1 by all concerned1 that nothing should be made known which could in any way influence the price of the stock of the company1 to which ,mr4 ,keely is under obligations2 and which1 as far as marketable value is concerned1 is quite worthless until his system is completed to that point where some one device or machine can be patented4 ,but1 after ,professor ,koenig had made his report to those assembled1 and ,professor ,brinton had read his abstract1 all that had been asked for ,mr4 ,keely1 in behalf of the interests of science1 was conceded to him4 ,mr4 ,keely has been able to continue his researches1 up to the present time1 without the delays which actions-at-law would have occasioned4 ,professor ,brinton1 before making public his ,abstract of ,keely's ,philosophy1 wishes to add two parts1 one on the difficulties in the way of physicists in understanding ,keely's theories2 the other on the relations of the conditions of the inter-etheric order to the laws of mind4 ,the address of ,mrs4 ,moore1 type-copied1 was sent to various editors and men of science in ,philadelphia1 as well as to leading capitalists2 and1 in this crisis of ,keely's connection with the stockholders of ,the ,keely ,motor ,company1 some of these editors rendered substantial aid in making known his critical position2 most notably the ,inquirer1 owned by ,mr4 ,elverson1 and the ,evening ,telegraph1 owned by ,mr4 ,warburton1 with the result that a decided change in public opinion took place1 after these journals announced1 in ,april1 that ,professor ,koenig had tested the energy1 employed by ,keely1 with the most sensitive galvanometer of the university1 in the presence of ,professor ,leidy1 ,professor ,brinton1 ,doctor ,tuttle 7a ,baltimore physicist7 and others1 finding no trace of electricity2 and by other tests no magnetism4 ,the two professors who thoroughly investigated ,keely's theories1 and observed his demonstrations1 were chosen because they possessed the qualities of mind which ,herbert ,spencer said constitute the first condition of success in scientific research1 viz4 an honest receptivity and a willingness to abandon all preconceived notions1 however cherished1 if they be found to contradict the truth4 ,professor ,leidy and ,dr4 ,willcox1 during their observations of ,keely's progressive experimental researches1 had expressed no opinion of ,keely's theories1 other than that they did not correspond with their own ideas2 but ,professor ,koenig boldly said1 ,i not only think ,mr4 ,keely's theories possible1 but ,i consider them quite probable4 ,professor ,brinton1 who made a study of ,keely's theories1 so mastered them as to be able to suggest to ,keely a new line of research1 required by ,dr4 ,koenig in the tests proposed2 and the synopsis of ,keely's philosophy1 prepared by ,doctor ,brinton1 has made ,keely's hitherto unintelligible language intelligible to men of science4 ,notwithstanding this favourable result1 a ,new ,york journalist1 under a fictitious name1 pretended to have discovered that ,keely is a fraud1 using well-known forces2 which statements were published 7with woodcuts of instruments discarded by ,keely two years before7 in the ,new ,york ,herald and ,the ,press1 in ,philadelphia4 ,it is amusing to see how history repeats itself2 for1 in the year #agbd1 in a letter to the ,royal ,society1 ,hatzfeldt attacked ,sir ,isaac ,newton in much the same spirit4 ,one would suppose in reading what ,hatzfeldt has written of an invention of his time1 that it had been written1 word for word1 of this ignorant investigator of ,keely's experiments in researching4 ,after commenting upon the corruption of human nature as shown1 in his day1 by want of veracity1 and the tendency to vicious misrepresentation1 he says3 ,if the said machine was contrived according to the weak sense and understanding of those who pretend it to be moved in other ways than that declared1 it would have been discerned before this4 ,and those who pretend it to be moved by water1 or air1 or magnetism1 one of which 7meaning water7 even our most famous author did in the beginning affirm it to be moved by1 is so very weak that ,i don't at all think it deserving to be considered4 ,and what is still worse1 to pretend it to be a cheat is a manner of proceeding which is neither consistent with equity nor common sense4 ,as long as arts and sciences have the misfortune of depending on the direction of such like persons1 no progress toward truth can be made1 but ,i shall make it sufficiently appear that there is yet more truth behind the hill than ever has been brought to light4 ,there be persons who1 when disappointed of gain1 turn their shafts against those who have circumvented them4 ,all those who know anything of philosophy know that gravity is generally 7and chiefly by ,sir ,isaac ,newton and his followers7 denied to be essential to matter1 which ,i shall not only prove the contrary of1 but ,i shall likewise show the properties in matter1 on which the principle depends1 to be the most glorious means to prove the existence of ,god1 and to establish natural religion4 ,is it not rather remarkable that1 after a sleep of nearly two centuries1 it is again claimed that gravity is inherent in all matter8 ,it has been very generally supposed that ,keely is working at haphazard1 as it were2 in other words1 that he has no theory to go upon4 ,professor ,brinton writes of ,keely's theories3 ,mr4 ,keely has a coherent and intelligent theory of things1 or philosophy1 on which he lays out his work and proceeds in his experiments4 ,march #fth1 the same professor writes3 ,keely's paper on ,latent ,force in intermolecular spaces is clear enough and instructive1 but the average reader will find the perusal up-hill work1 from lack of preliminary teaching4 ,naturally1 ,mr4 ,keely1 whose mind has been busy with this topic for years1 and who is more familiar with it than with any other1 does not appreciate how blankly ignorant of it is the average reader4 ,also naturally he writes above the heads of his audience4 ,a correspondent in ,invention1 ,london1 writes ,december #ab1 #ahia3 ,we have at various times in these columns alluded to the investigations of the ,philadelphia scientist1 ,j4 ,w4 ,keely1 and this researcher--who is now stated to be engaged in finding a method whereby the power #ah which he professes to have discovered can be employed as a motor in the place of steam--is just now the object of considerable attention in the press of the ,united ,states4 ,to summarize the present state of the criticism to which this man is subjected1 we may mention that for some time past ,the ,new ,york ,herald1 among other papers1 has been printing a series of articles that have been recently prepared by an ,american inventor named ,browne1 professing to show how ,keely has1 for nearly twenty years1 been deceiving expert engineers1 shrewd men of the world1 some few university professors and others1 by the use of compressed air1 obtaining testimonials of his discovery of an unknown force in nature4 ,in reading his articles any one who has seen the photographs--as the writer has done--of the researching instruments discarded by ,keely1 in past years1 and those that he is now employing in their place1 cannot fail to detect the misstatements and misrepresentations made4 ,mr4 ,browne 787 even overrides the testimony of the late ,professor ,leidy1 ,dr4 ,willcox1 ,dr4 ,koenig1 ,dr4 ,brinton--the ,baltimore physicist--,dr4 ,tuttle1 and the engineers ,linville and ,le ,van1 all of whom have tested the force used by ,keely1 and admitted that no electricity1 no magnetism1 no compressed air is used4 ,without endorsing in the slightest anything that ,keely has discovered1 or claims to have discovered1 we think that1 with the ,english love of fair play1 both sides should always fairly be heard before either is condemned1 and as ,mr4 ,keely has consented to instruct a well-known ,english physicist in his method of producing the force handled1 there is every chance of the truth being known1 and the correct state of the matter divulged to the scientific world at large1 when1 mayhap1 this rival inventor may have to retract his assertions or stand a suit for libel4 ,we do not say it will be so--we only assert it may be4 ,professor ,brinton1 who has made a study of ,keely's methods1 writes this month to a friend in ,london3--,the expos of ,keely's alleged methods continues each week4 ,some of the proposed explanations are plausible1 others are plainly absurd4 ,they only serve to attract renewed attention to ,keely4 ,i have written to the editor to ask him to arrange a meeting for me with the writer1 but ,i have not yet been able to discover the ,mr4 ,browne1 #ai of ,brooklyn1 who is the supposititious author4 ,mr4 ,keely has chosen the successor #bj of ,professor ,tyndall1 at the ,royal ,institution of ,great ,britain1 as the physicist to whom he will communicate his method4 ,this will be welcome news indeed to scientists on both sides of the ,atlantic1 and the result will be awaited with anxiety alike by both the friends and foes of ,keely4 ,we shall watch for the result1 as will our ,american confrres4--,wm4 ,norman ,brown4 ,,chapter ,,xvii4 #ahia4 ,,more ,,of ,,keely',s ,,theories4--,,his ,,traducers ,,exposed4 ,it was in ,india that man first recognized the fact that force is indestructible and eternal4 ,this implies ideas more or less distinct of that which we now term its correlation and conservation4 ,the changes which we witness are in its distribution4--,professor ,draper4 ,for all things that be not true1 be lies4 ,there is a principle in music which has yet to be discovered4--,sir ,john ,herschel4 ,from the ,chicago ,tribune4 ,that was a happy inspiration which led the ,quintet ,club1 of ,philadelphia1 to pay a visit to the workshop of ,keely a few weeks ago4 ,its members had been told that the illustrious inventor had employed the power of music to develop the wonderful forces of nature1 and evolve by a law of sympathetic vibrations a mighty energy through the disintegration of a few drops of water4 ,naturally they were anxious to go4 ,they were familiar with the claim made by ,paganini that he could throw down a building if he knew the chord of the mass of masonry1 and wanted to know if it were possible that the dream of the great violinist is realized at last4 ,so nearly as can be made out from the mysterious language of the man of many promises1 there is a harmony of the universe that is controllable by the strains of music4 ,each of the molecules composing a mass of matter is in a state of incessant oscillation1 and these movements can be so much changed by means of musical vibration that the matter will be disintegrated1 its constituent molecules fly apart1 and a propulsive force be generated similar to that which is evolved by the touching of a match to a single grain of powder stored in a magazine4 ,he holds that matter is nothing but forces held in equilibrium1 and that if the equilibrium be once destroyed the most tremendous consequences will ensue4 ,according to the report1 he proved to the satisfaction of more than one member of the club that he has already discovered the means of calling out this force1 and is able to partially control it4 ,in their presence he caused a heavy sphere to rotate rapidly or slowly1 according to the notes given by the instrument on which he played4 ,the sphere was so isolated as to prove that it could not be acted on by electricity or in any other way than by the sound waves4 ,he disintegrated water into what he calls etheric vapour by means of a tuning fork and a zither4 ,the disintegration of only four drops of water produced a pressure of #bg1jjj pounds to the square inch1 and three drops of the harmless liquid fired off a cannon with a tremendous roar4 ,all this is wonderful--if true4 ,and it is strangely parallel to the most advanced lines of modern thought in a scientific direction1 if not coincident with them4 ,there is the point4 ,is there a thin partition dividing the wisdom of the schools from the insanity of ,keely1 or will he yet prove his right to take rank among the greatest of earth's inventors8 ,if he can do what is at present claimed for him1 doing it honestly and without any hocus-pocus to beguile the fools1 he has already earned a title higher than that worn by any man of the age4 ,if he is simply cheating those to whom he exhibits his mechanism1 he is one of the biggest charlatans that ever drew breath1 and ought to be scouted accordingly4 ,and here is the difficulty4 ,the visit alluded to is claimed to have been made on ,may #ith1 or fully six weeks ago4 ,surely if such results were achieved then1 as reported by the ,philadelphia ,inquirer1 many others would ere this have been asked and permitted to witness a repetition of the experiments1 and the scientific world would now be in a blaze of excited admiration of the man and his methods4 ,but nothing further is said about it4 ,keely is still plodding away in his workshop1 and the world is still rolling round in happy ignorance of what he has done towards revolutionizing existing lines of thought and modes of action4 ,surely something is radically wrong4 ,the scientists owe it to themselves as well as to the inventor to see to it that this condition is not allowed to continue4 ,they should appoint a commission to investigate1 and find out whether ,keely is a genius worthy of the highest honours and rewards that can be bestowed1 an arrant impostor1 whose fittest place would be the penitentiary1 or a crank that ought to be put in a lunatic asylum4 ,it is hard to resist the conclusion that he is one or the other of these1 and in either case he is not getting his deserts4 ,let ,keely be scientifically investigated4 ,he has been permitted to remain in obscurity too long already4 ,he should be reported on1 no matter whether the result be to raise a mortal to the skies or send an alleged angel down to the depths of infamy as a life-long deceiver of his species4 ,the ,tribune is informed that the report was correct in every particular1 and that ,professor ,d4 ,g4 ,brinton1 of the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 has prepared a paper on the subject1 and will publish it when ,mr4 ,keely is ready to have his system made known4--,ed4 ,inquirer4 ,the writer of this article in the ,chicago ,tribune has expressed the prevailing sentiment of our time1 in regard to ,keely1 as far as those are concerned who are in ignorance of the fact that ,keely has discovered an unknown energy1 and is working out a system which he must himself first learn1 by researches into the laws of nature governing it1 before he can apply it to mechanics1 or make it even so much as understood by others4 ,the unprincipled journalist before alluded to1 after failing in an attempt to obtain admission to ,mr4 ,keely's workshop1 wrote a series of articles for the press1 recounting ,keely's researching experiments in #ahhi and #ahij1 as then shown to ,professor ,joseph ,leidy1 ,dr4 ,james ,willcox1 and others4 ,this journalist1 who professed to give woodcuts of ,keely's researching instruments1 was entirely ignorant of the fact that the experiments which he described had never once been repeated1 during the last eighteen months2 ,keely having taken up researches on another line1 as soon as he had gained sufficient control of the force he was handling to cause the solid bronze weight weighing six and three quarters lbs41 to rise in the jar1 rest midway1 or remain stationary at will4 ,the ,generator1 described by this journalist in the ,philadelphia ,press of ,november #ast1 #ahia1 never had any existence beyond the journalist's brain and the woodcut4 ,it was represented as a square structure1 big and thick walled enough to hold a donkey engine1 whereas the true disintegrator 7or improved generator7 is round1 and about the size of the wheel of a baby's perambulator4 ,this form of generator ,mr4 ,keely has been using for about three years2 suspending it from a staple in the ceiling1 or against the wall1 when using it in the dissociation of the so-called elements of water4 ,consequently1 it was impossible for the force to be conducted from a reservoir eight or ten squares distance1 as suggested by this inventing journalist1 who says that he spent sleepless nights in devising the way in which the generator was operated by ,keely3 asserting that this extraordinary force was loaded like electricity through a wire and discharged like steam through a pipe4 ,in a romance called ,the ,prince and the ,pauper these lines occur3 ,for1 look you1 an it were not true1 it would be a lie4 ,it surely would be4 ,think on't4 ,for all things that be not true1 be lies1--thou canst make nought else out of it4 ,never were truer words written1 and equally true is it that1 as another author has written1 ,if the boy who cannot speak the truth1 lives to be a man1 and becomes a journalist1 he will invent lie after lie as long as he can get a ,journal to print them and to pay him for them4 ,there are very few men1 who take up journalism in the spirit of a ,st4 ,beuve4 ,quite as few are there who are competent to write1 in any way1 of ,keely's discoveries and all that they involve4 ,even among men of science1 only one man has been found who is able to comprehend ,keely's theories1 and to handle them in a way to make them intelligible to others4 ,s4 ,laing1 in ,modern ,thought1 says1 ,science traces everything back to primeval atoms and germs1 and there it leaves us4 ,how came these atoms and energies there1 from which this wonderful universe of worlds has been evolved by inevitable laws8 ,what are they in their essence1 and what do they mean8 ,the only answer is1 ,it is unknowable4 ,it is behind the veil4 ,spirit may be matter1 matter may be spirit4 ,keely's researches have been of a nature which1 grappling with these mysteries1 has brought them to the light4 ,he tells us that spirit is the soul of matter1 and that no matter exists without a soul4 ,more of ,keely's ,theories4 ,the sympathetic conditions that we call mind are no more immaterial in their character than light or electricity4 ,the substance of the brain is molecular1 while the substance of the mind that permeates the brain is inter-etheric1 and is the element by which the brain is impregnated2 exciting it into action and controlling all the conditions of physical motion1 as long as the sympathetic equatative is in harmony1 as between the first1 second1 and third orders of transmission2 molecular1 atomic and etheric4 ,by this soul-substance is the physical controlled4 ,in order to trace the successive triple impulses1 taking the introductory one of sympathetic negative outreach1 towards the cerebral neutrals1 which awakens the latent element to action1 we find that mind may be considered a specific order of inter-atomic motion sympathetically influenced by the celestial flow1 and that it becomes when thus excited by this medium a part and parcel of the celestial itself4 ,only under these conditions of sympathetic assimilation can it assert its power over the physical organisms2 the finite associated with the infinite4 ,the brain is not a laboratory4 ,it is as static as the head of the positive negative attractor1 #ba until influenced by certain orders of vibration1 when it reveals the true character of the outreach so induced4 ,the brain is the high resonating receptacle where the sympathetic celestial acts1 and where molecular and atomic motion exhibits itself1 as according to the intensification brought to bear upon it by the celestial mind flow4 ,the cerebral forces1 in their control of the physical organism1 reveal to us the infinite power of the finer or spiritual fluid1 though not immaterial1 over the crude molecular4 ,the luminous1 etheric1 protoplastic element1 which is the highest tenuous condition of the ether1 fills the regions of infinite space1 and in its radiating outreach gives birth to the prime neutral centres that carry the planetary worlds through their ranges of motion4 ,if the minds of all the most learned sages1 of all time1 were concentrated1 into one mind1 that one would be too feeble1 in its mental outreach1 to comprehend the conditions associated with the fourth order of sympathetic condensation4 ,the controversies of the past in regard to the condensation of invisible matter prove this4 ,the chemistry of the infinite and the chemistry of the finite are as wide apart1 in their sympathetic ranges1 as is the velocity of light from the movement of the hour-hand of a clock4 ,even the analysis of the visible conditions taxes our highest powers of concentration4 ,the question naturally arises1 ,why is this condition of ether always under a state of luminosity of an especial order8 ,its characteristics are such1 from its infinite tenuity and the sympathetic activity with which it is impregnated1 that it possesses an order of vibratory1 oscillatory velocity1 which causes it to evolve its own luminosity4 ,this celestial1 latent power1 that induces luminosity in this medium1 is the same that registers in all aggregated forms of matter1 visible and invisible4 ,it is held in corpuscular embrace until liberated by a compound vibratory negative medium4 ,what does this activity represent1 by which luminosity is induced in the high etheric realm8 ,does not the force following permeation by the ,divine ,will show that even this order of ether1 this luminiferous region1 is bounded by a greater region still beyond8--that it is but the shore which borders the realm1 from which the radiating forces of the ,infinite emanate3 the luminiferous being the intermediate which transfers the will force of the ,almighty towards the neutral centres of all created things1 animate and inanimate1 visible and invisible2 even down into the very depths of all molecular masses4 ,the activity of the corpuscles1 in all aggregations1 represents the outflow of this celestial force1 from the luminiferous track1 towards all these molecular centres of neutrality1 and reveals to us the connecting link between mind and matter4 ,how plainly are we thus taught that ,god is everywhere1 and at the same time in every place4 ,it gives us a new sense of the omniscience and omnipresence of the ,creator4 ,in these researches ,i am brought so near to the celestial conditions that my pen is ready to fall from my hand while writing on this subject2 so more and more sensibly do ,i feel my abject ignorance of its depths4444 ,these conditions of luminosity have no thermal forces associated with them2 although1 paradoxically1 all thermal conditions emanate from that source4 ,the tenuity of this element accounts for it4 ,it is only when these sympathetic streams come in conflict with the cruder elementary conditions1 either the molecular or atomic1 that heat is evolved from its latent state1 and a different order of light from the etheric luminous is originated1 which has all the high conditions of thermal force associated with it3 the sun being the intermediate transmitter4 ,thus is shown the wonderful velocity of these sympathetic streams emanating from celestial space4 ,the sympathetic forces transmitted by our solar planet1 to which our earth is so susceptible1 are continuously received from the luminiferous realm2 the sympathetic volume of which1 as expended1 is constantly equated by the exhaustless will-force of the ,creator4 ,had the solar energy been subservient to what physicists ascribe it1 the sun would have been a dead planet thousands of centuries ago1 as also all planets depending upon it as an intermediate4 ,in fact1 all planetary masses are sympathetic-transferring-mediums1 or intermediates1 of this prime1 luminous1 dominant element4 ,in the vibratory subdivision of matter1 as progressive evolution has been analyzed1 it is evident that these transfers of sympathetic force extend beyond the limits of our orbital range1 from system to system1 throughout the realms of space3 these progressive systems becoming themselves1 after a certain range of sympathetic motion1 sympathetic intermediates1 as included in the whole of one system1 exemplified so beautifully in the cerebral convolutions1 with their connective sympathy for each other2 transferring as a whole on the focalizing centre1 from which it radiates to all parts of the physical organism1 controlling in all its intricate variety the sympathetic action1 of our movements4 ,what is there that we really know8 asks ,buckle4 ,we talk of the law of gravitation1 and yet we know not what gravitation is2 we talk of the conservation of force and distribution of forces1 and we know not what forces are4 ,the vibratory principles now discovered in physics1 says ,hemstreet1 are so fine and attenuated that they become an analogy to mental or cerebral vibrations4 ,let us see what ,keely's system of vibratory physics says of gravity1 cohesion1 etc4 ,what is ,gravity8--,gravity is an eternal existing condition in etheric space1 from which all visible forms are condensed4 ,consequently1 it is inherent in all forms of matter1 visible and invisible4 ,it is not subject to time nor space4 ,it is an established connective link between all forms of matter from their birth1 or aggregation4 ,time is annihilated by it1 as it has already traversed space when the neutral centres of the molecules were established4 ,gravity1 then1 is nothing more than an attractive1 sympathetic stream1 flowing towards the neutral centre of the earth1 emanating from molecular centres of neutrality2 concordant with the earth's centre of neutrality1 and seeking its medium of affinity with a power corresponding to the character of the molecular mass4 ,what is ,cohesion8--,cohesion is sympathetic negative attraction4 ,it is the negative1 vibratory assimilation1 or aggregation1 of the molecules1 acting according to the density or compactness of the molecular groupings on their structures4 ,the differing character of molecular densities1 or molecular range of motion1 represents differing powers of attraction4 ,the lower the range of motions on the molecular vibrations of these structures1 the greater is the attractive force that holds them together2 and vice vers4 ,what is ,heat8 ,heat may be classed as a vibro-atomic element1 not exceeding #ad1jjj vibrations per second at its greatest intensity1 latent in all conditions of matter both visible and invisible4 ,the velocity of the sympathetic flows which emanate from our solar world1 the sun1 coming into contact with our atmospheric medium1 liberates this element in all the different degrees of intensity that give warmth to our earth4 ,light is another resultant2 the different intensities of which are produced according to the different angles of this sympathetic projectment4 ,the light that emanates from a glow-worm is the resultant of the action of the sympathetic medium of the insect itself on a centre of phosphorescent matter1 which is included in its structure4 ,the resultant of the two conditions are quite different1 but they are governed by the same laws of sympathetic percussion4 ,radiation is the term used to express the reaching out of the thermal element1 after its liberation from its corpuscular imprisonment1 to be re-absorbed or returned again to its sympathetic environment2 teaching us a lesson in the equation of disturbance of sympathetic equilibrium4 ,force4 ,by what means is force exerted1 and what definitely is force8 ,given that force can be exerted by an act of will1 do we understand the mechanism by which this is done8 ,and if there is a gap in our knowledge between the conscious idea of a motion and the liberation of muscular energy needed to accomplish it1 how do we know that a body may not be moved without ordinary material contact by an act of will8 ,these questions were asked by ,professor ,lodge in his paper on ,time2 and as ,keely contends that all metallic substances after having been subjected to a certain order of vibration may be so moved1 let us see how he would answer these questions4 ,when ,faraday endeavoured to elaborate some of his unscientific notions in regard to force and matter1 men of science then said that ,faraday's writings were not translatable into scientific language4 ,the same has been said of ,keely's writings4 ,pierson says1 ,the very fact that there is about the product of another's genius what you and ,i cannot understand is a proof of genius1 i4e41 of a superior order of faculties4 ,keely1 who claims to have discovered the existence of hidden energy in all aggregations of matter1 imprisoned there by the infinite velocity of molecular rotation1 asserts that physicists in their mental rambles in the realm of analytical chemistry1 analytical as understood by them1 have failed to discover the key-note which is associated with the flow of the mental element2 that they have antagonized or subverted all the conditions1 in this unexplored territory of negative research1 which he has demonstrated as existing in reference to latent energy locked in corpuscular space4 ,these antagonisms might have been sooner removed had those physicists who witnessed some of ,keely's experiments1 while he was still working blindfold as it were1 in past years1 not belonged to that class of scientists who only see what they want to see1 and who array facts and figures adroitly on the side of preconceived opinion4 ,since the last meeting of the ,british ,association1 ,keely1 in writing of some of the addresses delivered1 says3 ,it delights me to find that physicists are verging rapidly toward a region which1 when they reach1 will enable them to declare to the scientific world what they now deny2 viz41 that immense volumes of energy exist in all conditions of corpuscular spaces4 ,my demonstrations of this truth have been ignored by them and now they must find it out for themselves4 ,i do not doubt that they will reach it in their own way4 ,i accept ,professor ,stoney's idea that an apsidal motion might be caused by an interaction between high and low tenuous matter2 but such conditions1 even of the highest accelerated motion1 are too far down below the etheric realm to influence it sympathetically1 even in the most remote way4 ,i mean by this that no corpuscular action1 nor interaction can disturb or change the character of etheric vibrations4 ,the conception of the molecule disturbing the ether1 by electrical discharges from its parts1 is not correct2 as the highest conditions associated with electricity come under the fourth descending order of sympathetic condensation1 and consequently its corpuscular realm is too remote to take any part towards etheric disturbance4 ,hypothesis is one thing and actual experimental demonstration is another2 one being as remote from the other as the electrical discharges from the recesses of the molecule are from the tenuous condition of the universal ether4 ,the conjecture as regards the motion being a series of harmonic elliptic ones1 accompanied by a slow apsidal one1 ,i believe to be correct4444 ,the combination of these motions would necessarily produce two circular motions of different amplitudes whose differing periods might correspond to two lines of the spectrum1 as conjectured1 and lead the experimenter1 perhaps1 into a position corresponding to an ocular illusion4 ,every line of the spectrum1 ,i think1 consists not of two close lines1 but of compound triple lines3 though not until an instrument has been constructed1 which is as perfect in its parts as is the sympathetic field that environs matter1 can any truthful conclusion be arrived at from demonstration4 ,it must be remembered that ,keely claims to have demonstrated the subdivision of matter in seven distinct orders3 molecular1 intermolecular1 atomic1 inter-atomic1 etheric1 inter-etheric1 reaching the compound inter-etheric in the seventh order4 ,in commenting further upon the experimental researches of men of science to show whether ether in contact with moving matter is affected by the motion of such matter1 ,keely writes3 ,the motion of any matter of less tenuity than the ether cannot affect it any more than atmospheric air could be held under pressure in a perforated chamber4 ,the tenuous flow of a magnet cannot be waived aside by a plate of heavy glass1 and yet the magnetic flow is only of an inter-atomic character and far more crude than the introductory etheric4 ,the etheric element would remain perfectly static under the travel of the most furious cyclone2 it would pass through the molecular interstices of any moving projectile with the same facility that atmospheric air would pass though a coarse sieve4 ,ether could not be affected by the motion of less tenuous matter1 but if the matter were of the same tenuous condition it would sympathetically associate itself with it2 consequently there would be no motion any more than motion accompanies gravity4 ,in the same way that the mind flow induces motion on the physical organism1 sympathetic flows on molecular masses induce motion on the molecular4 ,the motion of the molecules in all vegetable and mineral forms in nature are the results of the sympathetic force of the celestial mind flow1 or the etheric luminous1 over terrestrial matter4 ,this celestial flow is the controlling medium of the universe1 and one of its closest associates is gravity4444 ,the molecule is a world in itself1 carrying with it all the ruling sympathetic conditions which govern the greatest of the planetary masses4 ,it oscillates within its etheric rotating envelope with an inconceivable velocity1 without percussing its nearest attendant1 and is always held within its sphere of action by the fixed gravital power of its neutral centre1 in the same sympathetic order that exists between the planetary worlds4 ,the dissociation of aggregated molecules by intermolecular vibration does not disturb even to an atomic degree these fixed neutral points4 ,each molecule contributes its quota to the latent electrical force1 which shows up by explosion after its gathering in the storm clouds1 and then it returns to the molecular embrace it originally occupied4 ,you may call this return1 absorption2 but it gets there first during corpuscular aggregation1 and comes from there1 or shows itself1 during sympathetic disturbance of equilibrium4 ,there are three kinds of electricity1 the harmonic and enharmonic1 which1 with their leader1 the dominant1 form the first triple4 ,their sympathetic associations evolve the energy of matter4 ,the dominant is electricity luminous1 or propulsive positive4 ,the harmonic1 or the magnetic1 which is the attractive1 with its wonderful sympathetic outreach1 is the negative current of the triune stream4 ,the enharmonic1 or high neutral1 acts as the assimilative towards the reinstatement of sympathetic disturbance4 ,in electric lighting1 the velocity of the dynamos accumulates only the harmonic current--by atomic and inter-atomic conflict--transferring one two hundred thousandth of the light that the dominant current would give1 if it were possible to construct a device whereby it could be concentrated and dispersed4 ,but this supreme portion can never be handled by any finite mode4 ,each of these currents has its triple flow1 representing the true lines of the sympathetic forces that are constantly assimilating with the polar terrestrial envelope4 ,the rotation of the earth is one of the exciters that disturbs the equilibrium of these sensitive streams4 ,the alternate light and darkness induced by this motion helps to keep up the activity of these streams1 and the consequent assimilation and dissimilation4 ,the light zone being ever followed by the dark zone1 holds the sympathetic polar wave constant in its fluctuations4 ,this fact may be looked upon as the foundation of the fable that the world rests upon a tortoise4 ,the rotation of the earth is controlled and continued by the action of the positive and negative sympathetic celestial streams4 ,its pure and steady motion1 so free from intermitting impulses1 is governed to the most minute mathematical nicety by the mobility of the aqueous portion of its structure1 i4e41 its oceans and ocean's anastomosis4 ,there is said to be a grain of truth in the wildest fable1 and herein we have the elephant that the tortoise stands on4 ,the fixed gravital centres of neutrality1 the sympathetic concordants to the celestial outreach1 that exist in the inter-atomic position1 are the connective sympathetic links whereby the terrestrial is held in independent suspension4 ,we cannot say that this corresponds to what the elephant stands upon1 but we can say1 ,this is the power whereby the elephant is sympathetically suspended4 ,the ,atom4 ,question asked in ,clerk ,maxwell's memoirs3 ,under what form1 right1 or light1 can an atom be imagined8 ,keely replies1 ,it eludes the grasp of the imagination1 for it is the introductory step to a conception of the eternity of the duration of matter4 ,the magnitude of the molecule1 as compared to the inter-atom1 is about on the same ratio as a billiard ball to a grain of sand2 the billiard ball being the domain wherein the triple inter-molecules rotate1 the inter-molecules again being the field wherein the atomic triplets sympathetically act1 and again progressively1 in the inter-atomic field1 the first order of the etheric triplets begins to show its sympathetic inreach for the centres of neutral focalization4 ,it is impossible for the imagination to grasp such a position4 ,inter-atomic subdivision comes under the order of the fifth dimensional space in etheric condensation4 ,atoms and corpuscules can be represented by degrees of progressive tenuity1 as according to progressive subdivision1 but to imagine the ultimate position of the atomic alone would be like trying to take a measurement of immeasurable space4 ,we often speak of the borders of the infinite4 ,no matter what the outreach may be1 nor how minute the corpuscular subdivision1 we still remain on the borders1 looking over the far beyond1 as one on the shore of a boundless ocean who seeks to cross it with his gaze4 ,therefore1 philosophically speaking1 as the atom belongs to the infinite and the imagination to the finite1 it can never be comprehended in any form or light1 nor by any right2 for in the range of the imagination it is as a bridge of mist which can never be crossed by any condition that is associated with a visible molecular mass1 that is1 by mind as associated with crude matter4 ,sympathetic ,outreach is not induction4 ,they are quite foreign to each other in principle4 ,sympathetic outreach is the seeking for concordance to establish an equation on the sympathetic disturbance of equilibrium4 ,when a magnet is brought into contact with a keeper1 there is no induction of magnetism from the magnet into the keeper4 ,the static force of the magnet remains unchanged1 and the action between the two may be compared to a sympathetic outreach of a very limited range of motion4 ,the sympathetic outreach of the moon towards the earth1 has a power strong enough to extend nearly a quarter of a million of miles to lift the oceans out of their beds4 ,this is not the power of induction4444 ,the sympathetic envelope of our earth owes its volume and its activity entirely to celestial radiating forces4 ,reception and dispersion are kept up by atomic and inter-atomic conflict1 as between the dominant and enharmonic4 ,silver represents the #crd1 gold the #fth1 and platina the #ith1 in their links of association1 one to the other1 in the molecular range of their motions1 when submitted to vibratory impulses4 ,if an introductory impulse1 representing the sympathetic chord of transmission1 say ,b flat1 or any other chord1 be given to a sectional transmitting wire1 the molecular triple1 that is carried sympathetically along the path of such transmitter by the differentiation induced1 excites high sympathy with the polar terrestrial stream4 ,the polar terrestrial1 being triune in its character1 requires a triune sympathizer to meet its differential requirements3 silver the harmonic1 gold the enharmonic1 and platina the dominant4 ,when this triple metallic condition is properly sensitized1 by any chord on the dominant1 combined molecular1 differentiated action is induced2 showing a condition approaching magnetism in its development of related sympathy1 without having the conditions that are truly magnetic1 as this term 7magnetic7 is understood by all physicists4 ,magnetism is not polar negative attraction1 any more than polar negative attraction is magnetism2 for polar negative attraction shows positive sympathetic outreach1 of a high order2 which is a condition entirely foreign to magnetism4 ,sympathetic negative attraction is not the resultant of electrical sympathization1 but it includes the full triune flow2 the dominant being the leader and associate of the celestial4 ,the sympathetic outreach1 of negative attraction1 is the power that holds the planetary masses in their orbital ranges of oscillatory action4 ,magnetism has no outreach1 but it pervades all terrestrial masses--all planetary masses4 ,it is highly electrical in its character1 in fact magnetism is born of electricity2 whereas negative attraction is not1 but it has a sympathetic outreach for magnetism4 ,magnetism is static4 ,sympathetic negative attraction reaches from planet to planet2 but electricity does not1 nor does magnetism4 ,sympathetic negative attraction is born of the celestial1 and impregnates every mass that floats in space3 seeking out all magnetic or electric conditions2 and all these masses are subservient to celestial outreach4 ,all the magnets in the world could not induce rotation1 no matter how differentiated1 but polar negative attraction induces rotation4 ,hydrogen4 ,the horizon of matter1 which has been thought to rest over attenuated hydrogen1 may extend to infinite reaches beyond1 including stuffs or substances which have never been revealed to the senses4 ,beings fashioned of this attenuated substance might walk by our side unseen1 nor cast a shadow in the noon-day sun4--,hudson ,tuttle4 ,this supposition of itself admits that hydrogen is a compound4 ,if it were indivisible it would assimilate with the high luminous1 from which all substances are formed or aggregated4 ,if hydrogen were a simple it could not be confined4 ,no molecular structure known to man can hold the inter-luminous2 not even the low order of it that is chemically liberated4 ,the word attenuated admits that hydrogen is a compound4 ,i contend that hydrogen is composed of three elements1 with a metallic base1 and comes under the order of the second atomic1 both in vibration and sympathetic outreach4 ,hydrogen exists only where planetary conditions exist3 there it is always present1 but never in uninterfered space4 ,there is much celestial material that has never been revealed to the senses4 ,my researches lead me to think that hydrogen carries heat in a latent condition1 but ,i do not believe it will ever be possible to originate a device that will vibrate hydrogen with a velocity to induce heat4 ,the word imponderable as applied to a molecule is incorrect4 ,all gases as well as atmospheric air are molecular in their structures4 ,if atmospheric air is subdivided1 by atomic vibration1 it merely dissociates the hydrogen from the oxygen2 neither of which1 though disunited1 passes from the inter-molecular state2 and not until hydrogen is sympathetically subdivided in its inter-molecular structure by inter-atomic vibrations can it assimilate with the introductory etheric element4 ,there is a wonderful variation of gravital sympathy between the gaseous elements of compounds1 all of which comes under the head of molecular4444 ,under date of ,october #ast1 #ahia1 ,mr4 ,keely writes3 ,i see no possibility of failure1 as ,i have demonstrated that my theories are correct in every particular1 as far as ,i have gone2 and if ,i am not handicapped in any way during the next eight months1 and my depolarizer is perfect1 ,i will then be prepared to demonstrate the truth of all that ,i assert in reference to disintegration1 cerebral diagnosis1 aerial suspension and dissociation1 and to prove the celestial gravital link of sympathy as existing between the polar terrestrial and equation of mental disturbance of equilibrium4 ,it is a broad assertion for one man1 and 'an ignorant man' at that1 to make2 but the proof will then be so overwhelming in its truthful simplicity that the most simple-minded can understand it4 ,then ,i will be prepared to give to science and to commerce a system that will elevate both to a position far above that which they now occupy4 ,again1 ,november #dth1 ,mr4 ,keely says3 ,the proper system for the treatment of cerebral differentiation is not yet known to the physician of to-day4 ,the dissimilarities of opinion existing1 with regard to any case1 are confounding4 ,when the true system is recognized1 the vast number of physical experimentalists1 now torturing humanity1 will die a natural death4 ,until this climax is reached1 physical suffering must go on multiplying at the same ratio that experimentalists increase4 ,molecular differentiation is the fiend that wrecks the physical world1 using the seat of the cerebral forces as its intermediate transmitter4 ,it is the devastating dragon of the universe1 and will continue to devastate until a ,st4 ,george arises to destroy it4 ,the system of equating molecular differentiation is the ,st4 ,george that will conquer4 ,when my system is completed for commerce1 it will be ready for science and art4 ,i have become an extensive night worker1 giving not less than eighteen hours a day1 in times of intensification4 ,i have timed my race for life and ,i am bound to make it4444 ,new ,york ,truth1 #aeth ,may1 #ahij1 in commenting upon ,keely's claims to have annihilated gravity and turned the mysterious polar current to a mill-race1 continues3 ,i sincerely hope that ,mr4 ,keely may prove1 ,,as ,,from ,,late ,,developments ,,he ,,is ,,like ,,to ,,do1 that the hidden spirit of the ,cosmos1 which men call ,deity1 ,first ,cause1 ,nature1 and other sonorous but indefinite names1 has manifested itself to him2 that the music of the spheres is a truth1 not an imagination1 and that vibration1 which is sight1 hearing1 taste and smell1 is in serious verity1 all else4 ,the fable of ,orpheus and ,arion may have a foundation in actual physics1 the harmonies that move our souls to grief or joy as music1 may be the same as those that govern and impel the stars in their courses1 cause molecules to crystallize into symmetry1 and from symmetry into life4 ,who shall say8 ,if the accounts of ,keely's late achievements be true1 and they are honestly vouched for by men of worth and note1 then the secret is laid bare1 the core of being is opened out4 ,in this age of dawning reason the candle cannot always be hidden under a bushel2 some enterprising hand will lift the obstruction and let the light shine before men4 ,two years have nearly passed away since this was written1 during which time ,mr4 ,keely has been engaged in perfecting his system for aerial navigation4 ,he has1 one by one1 overcome all obstacles1 and so far gained control1 of the mysterious polar current1 that he has been able to exhibit on the thirds1 or molecular graduation of the propeller of his air-ship1 #abj revolutions in a minute2 and on the sixths1 or atomic graduation1 #cfj revolutions in a minute4 ,he still has the etheric field to conquer2 but those who know how many years he has been making his mistakes stepping-stones in his upward progress1 surmounting obstacle after obstacle which would have dismayed a less courageous soul1 feel little doubt that he will make the race1 which he has timed for life1 and reach the goal a conqueror1 notwithstanding he is still so often handicapped4 ,all those who had the privilege of witnessing ,keely's researching experiments1 in the spring of #ahij1 when he first succeeded in raising the metal weight1 and who were sufficiently acquainted with the laws of physics to understand the conditions under which the weight was raised1 pronounced the force by which it was affected to be an unknown force4 ,had the weight been but a nail or a feather1 lifted under such conditions1 physicists know that1 after he has gained as perfect control of it as we now have of steam1 air-ships weighing thousands of tons can be raised to any height in our atmosphere1 and the seemingly untraversable highways of the air opened to commerce4 ,this force is not1 like steam or electricity1 fraught with danger in certain states to those who use it2 for1 after the molecular mass of the vessel has been fitted to the conditions required1 its control becomes of such a nature that seemingly a star might as soon go astray1 and be lost to the universe1 as for the aerial ship to meet with an accident1 unless its speed was pushed to that point where gravity resumes its control4 ,in fact1 ,keely asserts that there is no known force so safe to use as the polar terrestrial force1 for when the celestial and terrestrial conditions are once set up1 they remain for ever2 perpetual molecular action the result4 ,in using the word celestial1 ,keely refers to the air1 in the same sense that terrestrial refers to the earth4 ,wide through the waste of ether1 sun and star ,all linked by harmony1 which is the chain ,that binds to earth the orbs that wheel afar ,through the blue fields of ,nature's wide domain4 ,percival4 ,from the ,new ,york ,home ,journal4 ,,the ,,song ,,of ,,the ,,carbons4 #bb ,a weird1 sweet melody1 faint and far1 ,a humming murmur1 a rhythmic ring1 ,floats down from the tower where the lenses are3-- ,can you hear the song which the carbons sing8 ,millions of ons have rolled away ,in the grand chorale which the stars rehearse1 ,since the note1 so sweet in our song to-day1 ,was struck in the chord of the universe4 ,the vast vibration went floating on ,through the diapason of space and time1 ,till the impulse swelled to a deeper tone1 ,and mellowed and thrilled with a finer rhyme4 ,backward and forward the atoms go ,in the surging tide of that soundless sea1 ,whose billows from nowhere to nowhere flow1 ,as they break on the sands of eternity4 ,yet1 through all the coasts of the endless ,all1 ,in the ages to come1 as in ages gone1 ,we feel but the throb of that mystic thrall ,which binds responsive the whole in one4 ,we feel but the pulse of that viewless hand ,which ever has been and still shall be1 ,in the stellar orb and the grain of sand1 ,through nature's endless paternity4 ,the smile which plays in the maiden's glance1 ,or stirs in the beat of an insect's wing1 ,is of kin with the north light's spectral dance1 ,or the dazzling zone of the planet's ring4 ,from our lonely tower aloft in air1 ,with the breezes around us1 tranquil and free1 ,when the storm rack pales in the lightning's glare1 ,or the starlight sleeps in the sleeping sea1 ,we send our greeting through breathless space1 ,to our distant cousins1 the nebul1 ,and catch in the comet's misty trace1 ,but a drifting leaf from the tribal tree4 ,the song we hum is but one faint sound ,in the hymn which echoes from pole to pole1 ,which fills the domes of creation's round1 ,and catches its key from the over-soul4 ,and when it ceases all life shall fail1 ,time's metronome shall arrested stand2 ,all voice be voiceless1 the stars turn pale1 ,and the great conductor shall drop his wand4 ,,chapter ,,xviii4 ,a ,,pioneer ,,in ,,an ,,unknown ,,realm4 ,thus1 either present elements are the true elements1 or there is a probability of eventually obtaining some more high and general power of ,nature1 even than electricity2 and which1 at the same time1 might reveal to us an entirely new grade of the elements of matter1 now hidden from our view and almost from our suspicion4--,the ,nature of the ,chemical ,elements4 ,faraday1 #ahcf4 ,a mysterious force exists in the vibrations of the ether1 called sound1 which science and invention have so far failed to utilize2 but which1 no doubt in the near future1 will come under man's control1 for driving the wheels of industry4--,thought as ,force4 ,e4 ,s4 ,huntington4 ,force and forces-- ,no end of forces6 ,have they mind like men8 ,browning4 ,the ,spectator1 commenting on the jubilee of the ,chemical ,society1 last year1 said it was notable for two remarkable speeches2 one by ,lord ,salisbury1 and the other by ,sir ,lyon ,playfair4 ,lord ,salisbury reminded his hearers that about one hundred years ago1 a very celebrated tribunal had informed ,lavoisier that the ,french ,republic had no need of chemists2 but1 said his ,lordship1 ,lavoisier1 though a man of very advanced opinions1 was behind this age4 ,lord ,salisbury proceeded to exalt chemistry as an instrument of the higher educational discipline4 ,astronomy1 he said1 was hardly more than a science of things that probably are2 for1 at such distance in space1 it was impossible to verify your inferences4 ,geology he regarded as a science of things as they probably were2 verification being impossible after such a lapse of time4 ,but chemistry he treated as a science of things as they actually are at the present time4 ,the ,spectator remarks3--,surely that is questionable4 ,all hypothesis is more or less a matter of probability4 ,no one has ever verified the existence of atoms4 ,sir ,lyon ,playfair1 following ,lord ,salisbury1 said1 ,boyle has been called the father of chemistry and the brother of the ,earl of ,cork2 ironically hinting1 perhaps1 that ,lord ,salisbury was reflecting as much immediate glory on chemistry1 by his interest in it1 as did the relationship of the first considerable chemist to the ,irish earl4 ,sir ,lyon1 acknowledging the revolutionizing progress of chemistry1 remarked that within the last fifty years it had seen great changes2 then1 oxygen was regarded as the universal lover of other elements2 and nitrogen was looked upon as a quiet1 confirmed bachelor2 but oxygen had turned out to be a comparatively respectable bigamist1 that only marries two wives at a time2 and nitrogen had turned out to be a polygamist2 generally requiring three conjugates1 and sometimes five1 at a time4 ,the false teachings of physicists in the past were admitted1 including ,sir ,lyon's own errors2 his old conceptions concerning carbonic acid and carbonic oxide all having broken down1 under the crushing feet of progress4 ,after all1 says the ,spectator1 it seems that the ,french revolutionists should have welcomed chemistry1 instead of snubbing it1 for it has been the most revolutionary of sciences4 ,at the present time1 notwithstanding the experiences of the past1 ,science stands as calmly on the pedestal1 to which she has exalted herself1 as if not even an earthquake could rock its foundations4 ,in her own opinion1 she holds the key to nature's domains4 ,some few there are who are ready to admit that it is possible ,nature still holds the key herself2 and who are not unwilling to encounter another revolution1 if they can extend their knowledge of ,nature's laws2 even though it may leave only ruins1 where now all is supposed to be so solid as to defy earthquakes and other revolutionizing forces4 ,in reviewing the history of the onward march of chemistry in the past1 we find that ,robert ,boyle1 who lived from #afbg to #afia1 was the first chemist who grasped the idea of the distinctions between an elementary and a compound body4 ,he has been called the first scientific chemist1 and he certainly did much to advance chemical science1 particularly in the borderland of chemistry and physics1 but he did this more by his overthrow of false theories1 than in any other way4 ,it was left for ,scheele 7born #agdb71 an obscure ,swedish chemist whose discoveries extended over the whole range of chemical science1 and his ,french contemporary1 ,lavoisier 7born #agdc71 to bring about a complete revolution in chemistry4 ,thus1 step by step1 and period by period1 experimental science has prepared the way to reach that elevation which humanity is destined eventually to attain1 when all errors have been discarded and truth reigns triumphant4 ,the question has been asked1 in view of the past history of discovery1 what may not the science of the future accomplish in the unseen pathways of the air8 ,that still unconquered field lies before us1 and we know that it is only a question of time when man will hold dominion there with as firm sway as he now holds it on land and sea4 ,physics and chemistry walk hand in hand4 ,scientists cannot cut the tie that joins them together in experimental science4 ,physics treats of the changes of matter without regard to its internal constitution4 ,the laws of gravitation and cohesion belong to physical science4 ,they concern matter without reference to its composition4 ,chemistry makes us acquainted with the constituents of the different forms of matter1 their proportions and the changes which they are capable of bringing about in each other4 ,but notwithstanding the lessons of the past1 both chemistry and physics are blind to what the future has in store for them4 ,scientists have erected barriers to progress1 building them so as to appear of solid masonry on the ground of false hypotheses2 but1 when the hour is ripe1 these will be swept away as if by a cyclone1 leaving not one stone on another4 ,it was ,boyle who overthrew the so-called ,aristotelian doctrine1 and ,paracelsus's teachings of the three constitutents of matter1 disputed first by ,van ,helmont4 ,boyle taught that chemical combination consists of an approximation of the smallest particles of matter1 and that a decomposition takes place when a third body is present1 capable of exerting on the particles of the one element a greater attraction than is exercised by the particles of the element with which it is combined4 ,in this conjecture there is just a hint of the grand potentialities in the unknown realm which is now being explored by ,keely1 the discoverer of the order of vibration that releases the latent force held in the interstitial spaces of the constituents of water2 one order of vibration1 being more in sympathy with one of the elements of water than with the other1 possesses a greater attraction for that element and thereby raptures its atoms1 showing up new elements4 ,not all men of science are willing to admit the atomic theory2 although it explains satisfactorily all the known laws of chemical combination4 ,dalton1 accepting the teachings of the ancients as to the atomic constitution of matter1 was the first to propound a truly chemical atomic theory2 a quantitative theory1 declaring that the atoms of the different elements are not of the same weight1 and that the relative atomic weights of the elements are the proportions1 by weight1 in which the elements combine4 ,all previous theories1 or suggestions1 had been simply qualitative4 ,berzelius1 the renowned ,swedish chemist1 advancing ,dalton's atomic theory1 laid the foundation stones of chemical science1 as it now exists4 ,since his day1 by the new methods of spectrum analysis1 elements unknown before have been discovered2 and researchers in this field are now boldly questioning whether all the supposed elements are really undecomposable substances1 and are conjecturing that they are not4 ,on this subject ,sir ,henry ,roscoe says3-- ,so far as our chemical knowledge enables us to judge1 we may assume1 with a considerable degree of probability1 that by the application of more powerful means than are known at present1 chemists will succeed in obtaining still more simple bodies from the so-called elements4 ,indeed1 if we examine the history of our science1 we find frequent examples occurring of bodies1 that only a short time ago were considered to be elementary1 which have been shown to be compounds1 upon more careful examination4 ,what the chemist's retort has failed to accomplish has been effected by the discoverer of latent force existing in all forms of matter1 where it is held locked in the interstitial spaces1 until released by a certain order of vibration4 ,as yet1 the order of vibration which releases this force1 has not been discovered in any forms of matter1 excepting in the constituents of gunpowder1 dynamite1 and water4 ,the ,chinese are supposed to have invented1 centuries before the birth of ,christ1 the explosive compound gunpowder1 which requires that order of vibration known as heat to bring about a rupture of the molecules of the nitre1 sulphur1 and charcoal1 of which it is composed4 ,dynamite requires another order of vibration--concussion--to release the latent force held in the molecular embrace of its constituents4 ,the order of vibration discovered by ,keely1 which causes the rupture of the molecular and atomic capsules of the constituents of water1 must remain--though in one point only--a secret with the discoverer1 until he has completed his system for science1 and some one patentable invention4 ,let physicists be incredulous or cautious1 it matters not to him4 ,he has proved to his own satisfaction the actual existence of atoms and their divisibility--and1 to the satisfaction of thousands capable of forming an opinion1 the existence of an unknown force4 ,men of science have not been in any haste to aid him1 either with money or with sympathy1 in his researches2 and he will take his own time to bestow upon them the fruit of those researches4 ,those who have not clear ideas as to the nature of elementary bodies--molecules and atoms--may like to know that elements are defined as simple substances1 out of which no other two or more essentially differing substances have been obtained4 ,compounds are bodies out of which two or more essentially differing substances have been obtained4 ,a molecule is the smallest part of a compound or element that is capable of existence in a free state4 ,atoms are set down1 by those who believe in the atomic theory1 as the indivisible constituents of molecules4 ,thus1 an element is a substance made up of atoms of the same kind2 a compound is a substance made up of atoms of unlike kind4 ,over seventy elements are now known1 out of which1 or compounds of these with each other1 our globe is composed1 and also the meteoric stones which have fallen on our earth4 ,the science of chemistry aims at the experimental examination of the elements and their compounds1 and the investigation of the laws which regulate their combination one with another4 ,for example1 in the year #ahje1 ,gay-,lussac and ,von ,humboldt found that one volume of oxygen combines with exactly two volumes of hydrogen to form water1 and that these exact proportions hold good at whatever temperature the gases are brought into contact4 ,oxygen and hydrogen are now classified as elementary bodies4 ,the existence of atoms1 if proved1 as claimed by the pioneer of whom we write1 confirms ,priestly's idea that all discoveries are made by chance2 for it certainly was by a mere chance1 as we view things with our limited knowledge1 that ,keely stumbled over the dissociation of the supposed simple elements of water by vibratory force2 #bc thus making good ,roscoe's assumption that1 by the application of more powerful means than were known to him1 still more simple bodies would be shown up4 ,had ,keely subdivided these corpuscles of matter1 after a method known to physicists1 he would have been hailed as a discoverer1 when it was announced by ,arthur ,goddard1 in the ,british ,mercantile ,gazette1 in #ahhg1 that ,keely declared electricity to be a certain form of atomic vibration of what is called the luminiferous ether4 ,had ,keely been better understood1 science might have been marching with giant strides across this unknown realm during the many years in which men of learning have refused to witness the operation of the dissociation of water1 because one of their number decided1 in #ahgf1 that ,keely was using compressed air4 ,fixing bounds to human knowledge1 she still refuses to listen to the suggestion that what she has declared as truth may be as grossly erroneous as were her teachings in the days when the rotation of the earth was denied2 this denial being based upon the assertions of all the great authorities of more than one thousand years1 that the earth could not move because it was flat and stationary4 ,herodotus ridiculed those who did not believe this4 ,for two thousand years after the daily rotation of the earth was first suggested1 the idea was disputed and derided4 ,the history of the past1 says ,general ,drayson1 who claims to have discovered a third movement of the earth1 teaches us that erroneous theories were accepted as grand truths by all the scientific authorities of the whole world during more than five thousand years4 #bd ,although the daily rotation of the earth and its annual revolution around the sun had been received as facts by the few advanced minds1 some five hundred years before ,christ1 yet the obstructions caused by ignorance and prejudice prevented these truths from being generally accepted until about three hundred years ago1 when ,copernicus first1 and afterwards ,galileo1 revived the theory of the earth's two principal movements4 ,human nature is the same as in the days when ,seneca said that men would rather cling to an error than admit they were in the wrong2 so it is not strange that ,general ,drayson1 as the discoverer of a third movement1 has not received the attention that he deserves1 although his mathematical demonstrations seem to be beyond dispute4 ,with ,keely's claim1 that latent force exists in all forms of matter1 it is different2 for it is susceptible of proof by experiment4 ,in the days when the sphericity of the earth was denied1 for the asserted reason that the waters of the oceans and seas on its surface would be thrown off in its revolutions were it so1 because water could not stay on a round ball1 the statement could not be disputed2 the theory of the laws of gravitation being then unknown4 ,copernicus and ,galileo had nothing but theories to offer2 consequently it took long years to overcome the bigotry and the baneful influence of the great authorities of the time4 ,it is otherwise with ,keely1 who1 for fifteen years and more1 has been demonstrating this discovery to thousands of men2 some of whom1 but not all1 were competent to form an opinion as to whether he was humbugging with compressed air1 or with a concealed dynamo1 or1 still more absurd1 with tricks in suction1 as ,i asserted by a learned professor4 ,now that some of our men of science have consented to form their opinions from observation1 without interfering with the lines of progressive experimental research which the discoverer is pursuing1 there seems to be no doubt as to the result2 nor of the protection of the discovery by science4 ,truth is mighty1 and must in the end prevail over mere authority4 ,it has been said that we need nothing more than the history of astronomy to teach us how obstinately the strongholds of error are clung to by incompetent reasoners2 but when a stronghold is demolished1 there is nothing left to cling to4 ,sir ,john ,lubbock says3--,the great lesson which science teaches is how little we yet know1 and how much we have still to learn4 ,to which it might be added1 and how much we have to unlearn6 ,all mysteries are said to be either truths concealing deeper truths1 or errors concealing deeper errors2 and thus1 as the mysteries unfold1 truth or error will show itself in a gradually clearer light1 enabling us to distinguish between the two4 ,it is now left for men of science to decide as to the nature of the mysteries which ,keely is slowly unfolding1 and whether his demonstrations substantiate his theories4 ,they have been invited to follow him in his experimental research1 step by step2 to bestow upon him sympathy and encouragement1 so long withheld1 until he reaches that stage where he will no longer need their protection4 ,then1 if science is satisfied that he has gained a treasure for her1 in his years of dead-work1 she must step aside and wait patiently until he has fulfilled his obligations to those who organized themselves into a company to aid him1 long before she came forward to interest herself in his behalf4 ,those men of science who have refused to countenance this great work1 even by witnessing experiments made to prove the discovery of an unknown force1 are men who attempt no explanation of the miracles of nature by which we are surrounded1 assuming that no explanation can be given2 but1 as ,bacon has said1 he is a bad mariner1 who concludes1 when all is sea around him1 that there is no land beyond4 ,if the multitude of so-called laws of nature could be resolved into one grand universal law1 would it not be considered a great step in the progress of scientific knowledge8 ,this is what our pioneer claims for his discoveries1 one law working throughout nature1 in all things2 for1 as ,macvicar says1 the productive and conservative agency in creation1 as it exists and acts1 does not consist of two things1 idea and power2 but of a unity embracing both1 for which there is no special name4 ,the relation between the ,creator and the ,creation1 the ,first ,cause and what he has effected1 is altogether inscrutable2 but intelligence acting analytically1 as it cannot be kept from doing1 insists on these two elements in the problem1 viz4 idea and power4 ,the law of the universe is a distinct dualism while the creative energies are at work2 and of a compound union when at rest4 ,the hypothesis that motion can only be effected mechanically1 by pressure or traction or contact of some kind1 is an utterly helpless one to explain even familiar movements4 ,gravitation itself1 the grandest and most prevailing phenomenon of the material universe1 has set all genius at defiance when attempting to conceive a mechanism which might account for it4 ,the law of sympathetic association1 or sympathetic assimilation1 between two or more atoms1 or masses of atoms1 explains this grand phenomenon2 but ,roscoe1 in theorizing on the atomic theory1 says that from purely chemical considerations it appears unlikely the existence of atoms will ever be proved4 ,it never could have been proved by mechanical physics nor by chemistry4 ,the law which locks the atoms together would have remained an unknown law1 had not ,keely opened the door leading into one of nature's domains which was never entered before1 unless by the fabled ,orpheus1 who1 mythology tells us1 was killed because he revealed to man what the gods wished to conceal4 ,certainly1 whether ,orpheus ever existed or not1 the principle which ,pythagoras promulgated as the teaching of ,orpheus is disclosed in one of ,keely's discoveries4 ,in the great fresco of the school of ,athens1 by ,raphael1 ,pythagoras is represented as explaining to his pupils his theory that the same principle underlies the harmonies of music and the motion of heavenly bodies4 ,one of these pupils holds in his hand a tablet1 shaped like a zither1 on which are inscribed the ,greek words1 ,diapason1 ,diapente1 ,diatessaron4 ,of the diapason1 or concord of all1 ,spenser writes1 in ,the ,faerie ,queen3-- ,nine was the circle set in heaven's place1 ,all which compacted made a goodly diapase4 ,here we have a clue to the ,thirds1 ,sixths and ,ninths of ,keely's theories1 in the operation of his polar negative attractor4 ,the conception of the ,pythagoreans of music1 as the principle of the creation's order1 and the mainstay and supporter of the material world1 is strictly in accordance with the marvellous truths which are now being unfolded to science4 ,rightly divined ,browning when he wrote of 444 music's mystery1 which mind fails ,to fathom2 its solution no mere clue2 and ,cardinal ,newman also1 when he discoursed of musical sounds1 under which great wonders unknown to us seem to have been typified1 as the living law of divine government4 ,since the days of ,leucippus1 poets and philosophers have often touched upon the mysteries hidden in sound1 which are now being revealed in the experimental researches of ,keely4 ,these truths make no impression on those who are not gifted with any comprehension of nature's harmonious workings1 and are regarded as flights of fancy and of rhetoric4 ,among the utterances of inspiration--and all truth is inspired--one of the most remarkable1 when taken in connection with these discoveries1 is found in these eloquent words of the ,dean of ,boston ,university in his ,review of ,herbert ,spencer1 printed in #ahgf3-- ,think of the universal warring of tremendous forces which is for ever going on1 and remember that out of this strife is born1 not chaos void and formless1 but a creation of law and harmony4 ,bear in mind1 too1 that this creation is filled with the most marvellous mechanisms1 with the most exquisite contrivances1 and with forms of the rarest beauty4 ,remember1 also1 that the existence of these forms for even a minute depends upon the nicest balance of destructive forces4 ,abysses of chaos yawn on every side1 and yet creation holds on its way4 ,nature's keys need but to be jarred to turn the tune into unutterable discord1 and yet the harmony is preserved4 ,bring hither your glasses--and see that1 from atomic recess to the farthest depth1 there is naught but 'toil co-operant to an end4' ,all these atoms move to music2 all march in tune4 ,listen until you catch the strain1 and then say whether it is credible that a blind force should originate and maintain all this4 ,sir ,john ,herschel said3--,there is some principle in the science of music that has yet to be discovered4 ,it is this principle which has been discovered by ,keely4 ,let his theories be disputed as they have been1 and as they still may be1 the time has come in which his supporters claim that he is able to demonstrate what he teaches2 is able to show how superficial are the foundations of the strongholds to which physicists are clinging2 and able to prove purity of conditions in physical science which not even the philosophers and poets of the past have so much as dreamed of in their hours of inspiration4 444 ways are made1 ,burdens are lifted1 or are laid1 ,by some great law unseen and still1 ,unfathomed purpose to fulfil4 ,our materialistic physicists1 our ,comtist and agnostic philosophers1 have done their best to destroy our faith4 ,of him who will not believe in ,soul because his scalpel cannot detect it1 ,browning wrote3 ,to know of1 think about-- ,is all man's sum of faculty effects1 ,when exercised on earth's least atom4 ,what was1 what is1 what may such atoms be8-- ,unthinkable1 unknowable to man4 ,yet1 since to think and know fire through and through ,exceeds man1 is the warmth of fire unknown8 ,its uses--are they so unthinkable8 ,pass from such obvious power to powers unseen1 ,undreamed of save in their sure consequence3 ,take that we spoke of late1 which draws to ground ,the staff my hand lets fall2 it draws at least-- ,thus much man thinks and knows1 if nothing more4 ,these lines were written in reference to ,keely's discovery of the infinite subdivision of the atom2 for not until a much later period was ,browning influenced by a ,new ,york journalist to look upon ,keely as a modern ,cagliostro4 ,keely's discovery was the key-note of ,ferishtah's ,fancies1 written by ,browning before he met this journalist4 ,professor ,koenig writes3--,i have long given up the idea of understanding the ,universe2 with a little insight into its microcosm1 ,i would feel quite satisfied2 as every day it becomes more puzzling4 ,but there are no boundaries set to knowledge in the life of the ,soul1 and these discoveries reach out so far towards the ,infinite1 that we are led by them to realize how much there is left for science to explore in the supposed unfathomable depths of the etheric domain1 whence proceeds the influence that connects us with that infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed4 ,the attitude of willingness to receive truths1 of whatever nature1 now manifested by men of science in regard to ,keely's experimental research1 is shared by all who are not wise in their own conceit4 ,they stand ready to welcome1 while waiting for proof1 the discovery of ,darwin's grand-niece1 ,mrs4 ,f4 ,j4 ,hughes1 as now demonstrated by ,keely1 viz41 that the laws which develop and control harmonies1 develop and control the universe2 and they will rejoice to be convinced 7as ,keely teaches7 that all corpuscular aggregation absorbs energy1 holding it latent in its embrace until liberated by a certain order of vibration2 that nature does not aggregate one form of matter under one law1 and another form of matter under another law4 ,when this has been demonstrated1 to their entire satisfaction1 they will acknowledge that ,faraday's speculations on the nature of force and matter pointed the way to ,keely's discoveries4 ,some broad-minded men have been pursuing lines of research which give evidence of their desire to solve the problem for themselves as to the mode of rupturing the atom1 which science declares to be indivisible4 ,before any great scientific principle receives distinct enunciation1 says ,tyndall1 it has dwelt more or less clearly in many minds4 ,the intellectual plateau is already high1 and our discoverers are those who1 like peaks above the plateau1 rise over the general level of thought at the time4 ,if1 as ,browning has said1 ',tis not what man does which exalts him1 but what man would do1 surely this discoverer merits the sympathy and the admiration of all men1 whether he succeeds commercially or not1 for his persistent efforts to make his discoveries of use to the world4 ,keely has always said that scientists would never be able to understand his discoveries until he had reached some practical or commercial result4 ,only now he sees an interest awakened among men of science1 which is as gratifying to him as it is unexpected4 ,for the first time in his life1 he is working with the appreciation of men competent to comprehend what he has done in the past1 and what remains to be done in the future1 without one aspiration on their part for monetary results4 ,foremost among these men was the late ,joseph ,leidy1 ,professor of ,biology in the ,university of ,pennsylvania2 but physicists were not satisfied to take the opinion of this great man1 because he was a biologist4 ,what better preparation than the study of the science of life could a man have to qualify him for discriminating between laws of nature as conjectured by physicists1 and ,nature's operations as demonstrated by ,keely8 ,to such men1 possessing entire scientific and intellectual liberty of thought1 with that love of justice and truth which keeps its possessor from self-conceit1 arrogance and intolerance1 the world owes all that we now possess of scientific advance1 since the days when men believed the thunder and lightning to be the artillery of the gods4 ,lucifer1 ,september1 #ahib4 ,,chapter ,,xix4 ,,latent ,,force ,,in ,,interstitial ,,spaces--,,electro-,,magnetic ,,radiation--,,molecular ,,dissociation4 7,by ,john ,ernst ,worrell ,keely47 ,the atom is infinitely divisible4--,arthur ,schopenhauer4 ,for thou well knowest that the imbecility of our understanding1 in not comprehending the more abstruse and retired causes of things1 is not to be ascribed to any defect in their nature1 but in our own hoodwinkt intellect4--,p4 #f1 ,a ,ternary of ,paradoxes4--,van ,helmont4 ,the advance of science1 which for a time overshadowed philosophy1 has brought men face to face once more with ultimate questions1 and has revealed the impotence of science to deal with its own conditions and pre-suppositions4 ,the needs of science itself call for a critical doctrine of knowledge as the basis of an ultimate theory of things4 ,philosophy must criticize not only the categories of science but also the metaphysical systems of the past4--,prof4 ,seth4 ,latent ,force4 ,science1 even in its highest progressive conditions1 cannot assert anything definite4 ,the many mistakes that men of science have made in the past prove the fallacy of asserting4 ,by doing so they bastardize true philosophy and1 as it were1 place the wisdom of ,god at variance2 as in the assertion that latent power does not exist in corpuscular aggregations of matter1 in all its different forms1 visible or invisible4 ,take1 for example1 gunpowder1 which is composed of three different mediums of aggregated matter1 saltpetre1 charcoal1 and sulphur1 each representing different orders of molecular density which1 when associated under proper conditions1 gives what is called an explosive compound4 ,in fact it is a mass which is made susceptible at any moment by its exciter fire1 which is an order of vibration1 to evolve a most wonderful energy in volume many thousands of times greater than the volume it represents in its molecular mass4 ,if it be not latent force that is thus liberated by its exciter1 a mere spark1 what is it8 ,are not the gases that are evolved in such great volume and power held latent in the molecular embrace of its aggregated matter1 before being excited into action8 ,if this force is not compressed there1 nor placed there by absorption1 how did it get there8 ,and by what power was it held in its quiescent state8 ,i contend that it was placed there at the birth of the molecule by the law of sympathetic etheric focalization towards the negative centres of neutrality with a velocity as inconceivable in its character as would be the subdivision of matter to an ultimate end4 ,again1 what is the energy that is held in the molecular embrace of that small portion of dynamite which by slight concussion1 another order of vibration1 evolves volumes of terrific force1 riving the solid rock and hurling massive projectiles for miles8 ,if it is not latent power that is excited into action1 what is it8 ,finally1 what is held in the interstitial corpuscular embrace of water1 which by its proper exciter another form of vibration1 is liberated showing almost immeasurable volume and power8 ,is not this energy latent1 quiet1 until brought forth by its sympathetic negative exciter8 ,could the force thus evolved from these different substances be confined again1 or pressed back and absorbed into the interstitial spaces occupied before liberation1 where the sympathetic negative power of the ,infinite ,one originally placed it8 #be ,if latent force is not accumulated and held in corpuscular aggregations how is it that progressive orders of disintegration of water induce progressive conditions of increased volume and of higher power8 ,i hold that in the evolved gases of all explosive compounds1 dynamite or any other1 there exists deeper down in the corpuscular embrace of the gaseous element1 induced by the first explosion1 a still greater degree of latent energy that could be awakened by the proper condition of vibration2 and still further on ad infinitum4 #bf ,is it possible to imagine that mere molecular dissociation could show up such immense volumes of energy1 unassociated with the medium of latent force8 ,the question arises1 ,how is this sympathetic power held in the interstitial corpuscular condition8 ,answer4--,by the incalculable velocity of the molecular and atomic etheric capsules1 #bg which velocity represents billions of revolutions per second in their rotations4 ,we shall imagine a sphere of twelve inches in diameter1 representing a magnified molecule surrounded by an atmospheric envelope of one sixteenth of an inch in depth2 the envelope rotating at a velocity of the same increased ratio of the molecule's magnification4 ,at the very lowest estimate it would give a velocity of six hundred thousand miles per second1 or twenty-four thousand times the circumference of the earth in that time4 ,is it possible to compute what the velocity would be1 on the same ratio1 up to the earth's diameter8#b ,it is only under such illustrations that we can be brought even to faintly imagine the wonderful sympathetic activity that exists in the molecular realm4 ,an atmospheric film1 rotating on a twelve inch sphere at the same ratio as the molecular one1 would be impenetrable to a steel-pointed projectile at its greatest velocity2 and would hermetically enclose a resisting pressure of many thousands of pounds per square inch4 ,the latent force evolved in the disintegration of water proves this fact2 for under etheric evolution1 in progressive orders of vibration1 these pressures are evolved1 and show their energy on a lever especially constructed for the purpose1 strong enough for measuring a force over three times that of gunpowder4 ,we shall continue this subject a little farther1 and this little farther will reach out into infinity4 ,the speculations of the physicists of the present age1 in regard to latent energy1 would neutralize the sympathetic conditions that are associated with the governing force of the cerebral and the muscular organism4 ,the evolution of a volition1 the infinite exciter1 arouses the latent energy of the physical organism to do its work2 differential orders of brain-force acting against each other under dual conditions4 ,if there were no latent energy to arouse sympathetically1 there would be no action in the physical frame2 as all force is will-force4 ,all the evolutions of latent power in its varied multiplicity of action induced by its proper exciters1 prove the connecting link between the celestial and the terrestrial1 the finite and the infinite4 7,see ,appendix ,i47 ,there would be no life1 and therefore no action in aggregated matter1 had the latent negative force been left out of it4 ,if a bar of steel or iron is brought into contact with a magnet1 the latent force that the steel or iron is impregnated with is aroused1 and shows its interstitial latent action by still holding another bar4 ,but this experiment does not give the most remote idea of the immensity of the force that would show itself on more progressive exciters4 ,enough alternate active energy could be evolved1 by the proper sympathetic exciter1 in one cubic inch of steel to do the work of a horse1 by its sympathetic association with the polar force in alternate polarization and depolarization4 ,this is the power that ,i am now getting under control 7using the proper exciters as associated with the mechanical media7 to do commercial work4 ,in other words1 ,i am making a sympathetic harness for the polar terrestrial force3 first1 by exciting the sympathetic concordant force that exists in the corpuscular interstitial domain1 which is concordant to it2 and secondly1 after the concordance is established1 by negatizing the thirds1 sixths1 and ninths of this concordance1 thereby inducing high velocities with great power by intermittent negation1 as associated with the dominant thirds4 ,again3 ,take away the sympathetic latent force that all matter is impregnated with1 the connective link between the finite and the infinite would be dissociated1 and gravity would be neutralized2 bringing all visible and invisible aggregations back into the great etheric realm4 ,here let me ask1 ,what does the term cohesion mean8 ,what is the power that holds molecules together1 but electro-magnetic negative attraction8 ,what is the state that is brought about by certain conditions of sympathetic vibration1 causing molecules to repel each other1 but electro-magnetic radiation8 ,it must not be understood that the character of the action of the latent force liberated from liquids and gases is the same1 in its evolution1 as that of the latent force existing in metals4 ,the former shows up an elastic energy1 which emanates from the breaking up of their rotating envelopes2 increasing1 at the same time1 the range of their corpuscular action3 thus giving1 under confinement1 elastic forces of an almost infinite character4 ,by liberation from the tube it is confined in1 it seeks its medium of concordant tenuity with a velocity greater than that of light4 ,in metals1 the latent force1 as excited by the same sympathizer1 extends its range of neutral sympathetic attraction without corpuscular rupture1 and reaches out as it were to link itself with its harmonic sympathizer1 as long as its exciter is kept in action4 ,when its exciter is dissociated1 its outreach nestles back again into the corpuscular embrace of the molecular mass that has been acted upon4 #bh ,this is the polar sympathetic harness1 as between metallic mediums and the polar dominant current1--the leader of the triune stream of the terrestrial flow4 7,see ,appendix ,,ii47 ,the velocity of the sympathetic bombarding streams1 towards the centres of neutrality1 in the corpuscular atoms1 during sympathetic aggregation of visible molecular masses 7in registering the latent force in their interstitial spaces71 is thousands of times greater than that of the most sensitive explosives4 ,an atmospheric stream of that velocity would atomize the plate of an ironclad1 if brought to bear on it4 ,if the evolution of the power of a volition be set down as one1 what number would that represent in the power evolved by such volition on the physical organism8 ,to answer this we must first be able1 mentally1 to get down to the neutral central depths of the corpuscular atoms1 where gravity ceases1 to get its unit2 and in the second place we must be able to weigh it as against the force physically evolved4 ,how true1 the finer the force the greater the power6 and the greater is the velocity1 also2 and the more mathematically infinite the computation4 ,yet all these conditions of evolution and concentration are accomplished by the celestial mind force1 as associated with terrestrial brain matter4 ,the first seal is being broken1 in the book of vibratory philosophy3 the first stepping-stone is placed toward reaching the solution of that infinite problem1--the source of life4 ,theory of ,vibratory ,lift for ,air-,ships4 ,all molecular masses of terrestrial matter are composed of the ultimate ether1--from which all things originally emanated4 ,they are sympathetically drawn towards the earth's centre1 as according to the density of their molecular aggregation1 minus their force or sympathetic outreach towards celestial association4 ,in other words1 the celestial flow as controlling terrestrial physical organisms4 ,the sympathetic outflow from the celestial streams reaches the infinite depths of all the diversified forms of matter4 ,thus it is seen that the celestial flow which permeates1 to its atomic depths1 the terrestrial convolutions of all matter1 forms the exact sympathetic parallel to the human brain-flow and the physical organism1--a perfect connective link of controlling sympathy1 or sympathetic control4 ,under certain orders of sympathetic vibration1 polar and anti-polar1 the attractive sympathies of either stream can be intensified1 so as to give the predominance to the celestial or to the terrestrial4 ,if the predominance be given to the celestial1 to a certain degree1 on a mass of metal1 it will ascend from the earth's surface1 towards the etheric field1 with a velocity as according to the dominant concentration that is brought to bear on the negative thirds of its mass chords1 by inducing high radiation from their neutral centres1 in combination with the power of the celestial attractive4 ,the power of the terrestrial propulsive and celestial attractive to lift2 and these conditions reversed1 or the celestial propulsive and the terrestrial attractive1 to descend4 ,associating these conditions with the one of corpuscular bombardment1 it is evident to me with what perfection an air-ship of any number of tons weight can1 when my system is completed1 be controlled in all the varied movements necessary for complete commercial use at any desired elevation1 and at any desired speed4 ,it can float off into atmospheric space as gentle in motion as thistle-down1 or with a velocity out-rivalling a cyclone4 #bi ,electro-,magnetic ,radiation4 ,if the persistency of our vision could be reversed1 so as to have the power to follow the track of the molecule's oscillations under a high condition of vibratory acceleration1 associated with the assisting power of the finest instruments known at present in scientific research1 it would not help us to determine the period of time wherein the sympathetic actions in nature are propagated4 ,therefore1 we cannot1 with any degree of certainty1 establish a foundation whereon observation1 so associated1 is reliable4 7,theoretically explained in ',soul of ,matter4'7 ,as far as my researches have gone1 ,i find that there is but one condition approaching reliability2 and that is in computing the intermittent periodic disturbances along a nodal vibratory transmitter--the nodes of gold1 silver and platina--a fixed number placed at such different distances1 along its line1 as to take up and equalize 7by a certain order of vibratory transmissions7 the chord masses of the nodal interferences between the triple metals of which the nodes are composed1 and also the acoustic introductory impulse of whatever chord is set4 ,this will determine the rate of their accelerated molecular oscillation1 so induced beyond their normal standard1 and give us some definite figures in the computing of vibrations1 thousands of billions of times more than those of light4 ,light is induced by electro-magnetic percussion emanating from the ether1 and in its action represents the plane of magnetism4 ,in fact it is the plane of magnetism when under polarization4 #cj ,some scientific theories of the past have taught us that electricity and magnetism are one and the same thing4 ,sympathetic vibratory philosophy teaches that they are two distinct forces of one of the triune sympathetic family4 ,i will try to make comprehensible the computation of the number 7even to infinity7 of the corpuscular oscillations1 induced on the introductory ninths1 over their normal standard4 ,the molecules of all visible masses1 when not influenced by surrounding acoustic vibratory impulses1 move at a rate of #bj1jjj oscillations per second1 one third of their diameters4 ,we have before us one of these masses2 either a silver dollar1 a pound weight1 a horse-shoe1 or any other metallic medium1 which ,i associate to one of my nodal transmitters1 the other end of which is attached to the clustered thirds 7or third octave7 of my focalizing neutral concentrator4 ,another transmitter1 of gold1 silver and platina sections1 is attached to the sixth cluster of same disk1 the other end of which is connected to resonating sphere on my compound instrument3 all of which must be brought to a state of complete rest4 ,then1 a slight tap1 with a vulcanite rubber hammer on the chladna resonating disk1 will accelerate the #bj1jjj molecular oscillations to #ahj1jjj per second1--an increase of nine times the normal number4 ,the nine nodes each touching the extreme end1 next the mass operated upon1 in this arrangement2 silver1 gold1 platina1 make up the nine4 ,when ,i associate the seventh1 ,i start with gold and end with platina2 always on the triplets4 ,silver represents the lowest introductory third1 gold the next1 and platina the highest4 ,if we start with a gold node1 the multiplication on oscillation will be nine times nine1 or #ha times the #bj1jjj2 which is #a1fbj1jjj per second4 ,each node represents one wave length of a certain number of vibrations when shifted along the transmitter1 over the section representing its opposite metal4 ,the shifting of the gold one over the silver extreme section will hold the corpuscular range of the mass velocity at #a1fbj1jjj per second3 the introductory chord being set at ,b1 third octave4 ,it requires an accelerated oscillation on the molecules of a soft steel mass1 at that chord1 of a transmissive multiplication of the full nine1 in order to induce a rotary action on the neutral centre indicator of focalizing disk2 which by computation1 means1 per second1 #aef1jeg1eeb1aih1bbj1jjj corpuscular intermittent oscillations to move the disk #aaj revolutions per second4 ,this only represents the multiplication on the first nodal dissociator of the ninth4 ,the second transition1 on same1 would mean this number multiplied by itself1 and the residue of each multiplication by itself #ha times progressively4 ,this throws us infinitely far beyond computation1 leaving us only on the second of the full ninth1 towards reaching the sympathetic corpuscular velocity attending the high luminiferous4 ,i have induced rotation up to #abc revolutions per second on a neutral indicator that required billions of vibrations per second to accomplish2 but even this vibration represents only a minute fraction of the conditions governing the sympathetic vitality which exists in the far luminous centres4 ,the interposition of hydrogen gas between soap-film1 of the differential diameters of thirds1 illuminated by a solar ray in whose focus a quiescent prism is set posteriorly--the prism to be adjusted at the proper distance and angle1 to throw the seven colours through the film enclosing the hydrogen in a way that will give the bow an arch of three feet--will register deep down1 inaudible tones or sounds1 and indicate their different conditions by the dissolving and re-dissolving of certain of the colours of such arch4 ,to conduct such experiments properly necessitates1 first1 a location as nearly isolated from all extraneous audible sounds as is possible to get2 and second1 a pedestal of the lowest vibrating material1 the base of it set deep in the earth1 to arrange the instruments upon2 and third1 a room of the highest resonating qualities to enclose them4 ,under such conditions the inaudible sounds emanating from the operator1 would have to be neutralized by a negative device to get at the proper conditions while under his manipulation4 ,thus the hidden inaudible world of sounds could be shown up1 as the microscope shows up to the eye the hidden invisible forms of nature4 ,the condition of the mechanical requirements necessary to conduct successfully the line of research that ,i am now pursuing1 will never be properly appreciated until the beauty of this system is shown up under perfect control for commercial use4 ,i have spoken elsewhere of the almost infinite difficulties of getting into position1 to hold hydrogen gas in suspension between soap-film a proper period of time1 to conduct these experiments4 ,the setting of the other parts of the apparatus is quite easy in comparison4 ,all wave propagations1 electro-magnetic or otherwise1 by being thus reflected can be measured in regard to the time of their propagation2 all of which are introductorily subservient to the luminiferous ether4 ,the theory put forward by men of science1 in regard to electro-magnetic forces shows that they are misled by the imperfection of their instruments4 ,they are trying to measure the infinite by the finite2 necessitating terms of avoidance1 to the instantaneous propagation of nature's sympathetic evolutions1 of the same nature as the one advanced in the assertion that force does not exist in the interstitial embrace of all matter4 ,maxwell's theory is correct that the plane of polarized light is the plane of the magnetic force4 ,the sympathetic vibrations associated with polarized light constitute the pure coincident of the plane of magnetism4 ,therefore1 they both tend to the same path1 for both are inter-atomic1 assimilating sympathetically1 in a given time1 to continue the race together2 although one precedes the other at the time of experimental evolution4 ,the time is approaching when electro-magnetic waves with an outreach of two feet will be produced1 having an energy equal to that now shown up on the magnet when it is about to kiss its keeper2 and showing a radiating force too stupendous for actual measurement4 ,i have already shown1 to a certain point1 the power of this radiation1 by breaking a rope that had a resisting strain of over two tons1 which was attached to the periphery of a steel disk1 twelve inches in diameter1 moving at the slow rate of one revolution in two minutes2 its molecular structure vitalized with #db1hjj vibrations per second4 ,there was no retardation while breaking the rope1 and no acceleration when it was broken4 ,this experiment has been repeated scores of times1 before scores of visitors who came to my laboratory for the purpose of seeing it4 ,a computation of the conditions1 already shown up in part1 proves conclusively that the power of an electro-magnetic wave at an outreach of ten inches would be1 if properly developed1 equal to a lifting force of #cf1jjj pounds on a disk but three inches in diameter4 ,ten of such on the periphery of a vibratory disk1 #cf inches in diameter1 would represent #cfj1jjj pounds actual lift at one revolution per minute4 ,perfect depolarization at one hundred times per minute would represent #cfj1jjj1jjj pounds1 lifted twelve times per minute1 or #ajjj horse power in the same time4 ,an excess of #ajj extra revolutions1 under the same conditions1 would mean #bjjj horse power per minute4 ,by this new system1 to perfect which ,i am now devoting all my time and my energies1 dynamos will become a thing of the past1 eventually2 and electric lighting will be conducted by a polar negative disk1 independent of extraneous power to run it1 other than that of sympathetic polar attraction1 as simple in its construction1 almost1 as an ordinary type-writing machine4 ,answers made in ,letters from ,mr4 ,keely1 to ,questions asked of ,him4 ,light incident to any body that absorbs or reflects it does not press upon it4 ,the radiometer of ,professor ,crookes's invention is not operated by the pressure of light1 but by corpuscular bombardment on the reflecting side of its vanes4 ,you have called my attention to the receding movement in the metal silver1 which it assumes when the flow of an alternating current from an electro-magnet1 in front1 is thrown upon it4 ,this does not prove that light presses upon it to induce that movement4 ,it moves by inter-atomic bombardment of some #hjj millions of corpuscular percussions a second2 or1 more truly1 by inter-sympathetic vibrations4 ,if a homogeneous disk of gold1 silver and platina1 in proper proportions1 were made the medium of interference1 the resultant action would be startling in showing up the movement of molecular antagonistic thirds4 ,the movement would be very erratic and gyroscopic4 ,if the same disk were used or an intermediate transmitter to a negative focalizer1 or in other words a polar radiator only one of which is in existence1 by a nodal wire of gold1 silver and platina1 the effect on the disk at the negative terminus would be to set into action the latent force held in its molecular embrace1 and would cause it to sympathetically adhere to the focalizer1 with a power that would make it practically inseparable4 ,professor ,fitzgerald's lecture on electro-magnetic radiation shows that scientific men are beginning to realize1 and that fairly1 the truths appertaining to the new philosophy4 ,the professor admits that electricity and magnetism are of differential character1 and he is right4 ,the progressive subdivision1 induced on molecules by different orders of sympathetic vibration1 and the resultant conditions evolved on the inter-molecule and inter-atom1 by introductory etheric dispersion1 prove that the magnetic flow of itself is a triple one1 as is also the electric4 ,again1 the professor says that electricity and magnetism would be essentially interchangeable if such a thing existed as magnetic conduction1 adding3 ',it is in this difference that we must look for the difference between electricity and magnetism4' ,thus you see how plain it is that progressive scientists are approaching true science4 ,the rotation of the magnetic needle1 as produced in my researching experiments1 proves conclusively that the interchange spoken of1 in ,professor ,fitzgerald's lecture1 is a differentiated vibratory one1 in which the dominant and enharmonic forces exchange compliments with each other1 in a differential way2 thus inducing rotation1 in other words polarization and depolarization4 ,the transmission of sympathetic atomic vibration1 through a triple nodal transmitter1 induces an inter-atomic percussion1 that results in triple atomic subdivision1 not oscillating across the diameter of the atom1 but accelerating to an infinite degree the atomic film that surrounds it and at the same time extending the vibratory range of the atom far enough to set free the gaseous atomic element4 ,molecular ,dissociation4 ,if our sight could reach into the remote depths of the interstitial spaces which exist between the molecular ranges1 and observe their wonderful action1 in their oscillating motion1 to and from each other1 as guided by the ,infinite in their sphere of vibrating action--could we comprehend the astonishing velocity of their gaseous capsules1 combined as it is with the accompanying acoustic force1 we would be1 as it were1 paralyzed with amazement4 ,but we would then only be bordering on the still more remote depths of the interstitial atomic realm1 stretching far down towards the neutral depths of the inter-atomic2 and again1 still farther to the borders of its etheric neutral radiating centre4 ,if our earth were to be submitted to the force governing the rotative action of the molecule1 in its gaseous envelope1 and its oscillatory range of motion were in the same ratio to the differential magnitude of each1 the force of the vibration induced by its atmospheric surrounding would1 in a short time1 disintegrate its full volume1 precipitating it into a ring of impalpable inter-molecular dust1 many thousands of miles in diameter4 ,if brought face to face with such conditions we could better understand the mighty and sympathetic force which exists in the far remote domain of the molecular and atomic embrace4 ,the question arises1 how and by what means are we able to measure the velocity of these capsules and the differential range of their vibratory action8 ,also1 how can we prove beyond dispute the facts relating to their sympathetic government8 ,by progressive disintegration2 this is the only way2 and it is accomplished by the proper exciters of vibratory focalization2 the introductory acoustic impulses which negatize their molecular1 inter-molecular1 atomic and inter-atomic media of neutral attractions1 towards their focalized centres of sympathetic aggregation4 ,i hold that the sympathetic neutral flow which exists in this remote region is the latent power that1 under the disintegration of water1 is liberated2 showing immense volume and infinite pressure4 ,the same condition of latent power exists in metallic masses and1 paradoxical as it may seem1 exerts its force1 under the proper exciter1 only in a negative attractive way1 while in water in a positive one4 ,in minerals under liberation this latent power seeks its medium of tenuous equilibrium1 leaving behind an impalpable dust1 that represents molecular dissociation4 ,in order to get at the conditions which govern and give introductory impulses to that peculiar force which acts on the sympathetic medium that associates matter with matter1 inducing magnetic antagonisms1 it will be necessary to explain the triune conditions that govern sympathetic streams2 as also the triune conditions of corpuscular association4 ,all forces in nature are mind forces3 magnetic1 electric1 galvanic1 acoustic1 solar1 are all governed by the triune streams of celestial infinity2 as also the molecular1 inter-molecular1 atomic1 and inter-atomic4 ,the remote depths of all their acoustic centres become subservient to the third1 sixth1 and ninth position of the diatonic1 harmonic and enharmonic chords2 which1 when resonantly induced1 concentrate concordant harmony1 by reducing their range of corpuscular motion1 drawing them as if towards each other's neutral centre of attractive infinity4 ,the sympathetic acoustic exciters1 or impulses1 are3 #ast4 the third diatonic2 #bnd4 the harmonic sixths neutralizing affinity2 #crd4 the enharmonic ninths--positive acceleration1 which induces infinite trajective velocity from neutral centres2 in other words1 neutral radiation4 ,every molecule in nature represents1 without variation1 the same chord4 ,variations that show up in the mass chord of different visible aggregations1 are accounted for by the non-uniformity of their molecular groupings4 ,if all were molecularly homogeneous1 the chord masses of all structures would be perfectly alike in their resonant impulses4 ,when the triple introductory impulse is transmitted towards the mass to be sensitized1 it subserves the molecular concordant thirds and antagonizes the discordant sixths extending the range of their oscillating paths2 and thus induces the highest order of repellent antagonism towards the centre of neutral equilibrium4 ,we will now follow out1 in their progressive orders1 the conditions necessary to give to these acoustic introductory impulses the power1 as transmitted through the proper media1 to induce molecular dissociation4 ,first3 ,if ,i wish to disturb and bring into action the latent force held in the embrace of any molecular mass1 ,i first find out what the harmonic chord or note of its mass represents2 and as no two masses are alike1 it would seem to necessitate an infinite number of variations to operate on different masses2 but such is not the case4 ,all masses can be subserved to one general condition by the compound mechanical devices which ,i use for that purpose4 ,we will suppose that the mass to be experimented upon1 when chorded1 represents ,b flat4 ,then1 first1 the negative radiating focalizing bar on the disk is liberated from its dampening rod1 and associated with the magnetic defocalizing one4 ,there are seven ranges of bars in all4 7,see symbol representing sympathetic transmissive chord of ,b flat1 third octave on third diatonic47 ,the seven assemblings are in this order3 ,electro ,harmonic ,dominant ,magnetic ,diatonic ,enharmonic4 ,negative #crd4 #fths4 #gths4 ,i4 ,,ii4 ,,iii4 ,,iiii4 ,,iiiii4 ,,iiiiii4 ,,iiiiiii4 ,twenty-eight in number4 ,the second step is to liberate1 according to symbolic meaning1 second harmonic bar on sixths1 or neutralizing one1 and third1 enharmonic ninths1 which is the one counting from negative sevenths4 ,now all is in readiness for the transmissive nodal wire1 one end of which must be attached to the magnetic dispersing ring1 over the negative-sevenths cluster1 and the other end to the high polar negative attractor4 ,then1 one end of a transmitting wire1 of very fine proportions of gold1 silver and platina1 is connected to the resonating sphere1 and the other end to the mass to be experimented upon4 ,i then give to the syren a rotatory impulse of a velocity to indicate the concordant of the mass attached4 ,if the introductory settings are all right1 the neutral centre indicator will rotate with high velocity3 and a single tap on the chladna wave-plate is all that is necessary to induce pure evolution4 ,either attraction or dispersion can be induced on any mass by setting the instrument to the proper triple introductory positions1 towards the mass chords it represents1 either positive or negative4 ,this system of evolution might be expressed as disintegration induced by the intensified oscillations of inter-atomic-electro-magnetic waves4 ,how plainly this principle of harmonic sympathetic evolution indicates the structural condition of the atom as one of wonderfully complex form2 as also is the progressive step toward it in the molecular and inter-molecular field4 ,during the effect induced by disintegration of molecular mineral masses1 there is no molecular collision when forced asunder from their radiating centres of neutrality4 ,their atomic and inter-atomic centres seek their media of tenuous affinity in the far borders of the etheric field1 leaving all metallic masses1 that are associated with them1 behind in their virgin form4 ,keynote of electric-magnetic sympathy1 transmissive combinations1 #crds1 on the subdivision of first octave ,b flat1 diatonic4 #fths1 on same subdivision of #crds1 octave harmonic2 and #iths1 on the same subdivision of #fths1 octave enharmonic4 ,i find that there is no medium in the range of vibratory philosophic research1 that is as unerringly exact1 towards the centre of sympathetic attraction1 as the negative attractive influence of a certain triple association of the metallic masses of gold1 silver and platina4 ,in fact they are as accurate indicators of the earth's terrestrial sympathetic envelope1 and its triple focalized action towards the earth's neutral centre1 as the magnet is an indicator of the diversion of the attractive flow of the dominant current of the electric stream4 ,although much has been written on the subject1 the conditions attending the continuous flow of the magnet remains a problem that has never been solved by any other theory4 ,yet the solution is very simple when harmonic vibratory influence is brought to bear upon it4 ,the harmonic attractive chord1 thirds1 induces a nodal interference on that third of the triune combination of the terrestrial envelope1 that is immediately associated with this medium of interference1 and moves towards the negative pole of the magnet1 then flows through it to re-associate with the full triune combination1 through the positive1 thus3-- ,dominant ,harmonic ,enharmonic ,the triune stream2 one current of which is diverted from the ,dominant1 flowing in at the ,negative end of the magnet2 and out to join the triune terrestrial stream at the ,positive end4 ,the continuous flow of the magnet is merely a diversion of that portion of the terrestrial envelope that electricians have never controlled4 ,this third current1 of this triune stream1 has never been subdivided and only slightly diverted towards the negative pole of the magnet1 flowing unbrokenly back to associate sympathetically with the full triune combination of the earth's negative neutral force4 #ca ,thus the problem is solved of the continuous and never-ending force of the magnet1 in carrying its load without any diminution of its energy4 ,there is no influence1 as yet known1 that can break up its line of sympathetic flow as associated with the triune combination4 ,polarization and de-polarization1 in its action1 is nodal negative interference1 intermittently excited1 inducing differential disturbance of polar sympathetic equilibrium4 ,the attractive power1 evolved by a magnet in sustaining its load1 is no evidence that it is molecularly attractive3 for1 under the influence of the dominant current of the electric stream1 the range of its molecular mass is not extended2 but by the action induced in atomic vibration1 the latent1 or undisturbed power1 that is locked up in its atomic embrace1 is put into sympathetic action1 and evolves the force that is recognized as magnetic4 ,when its exciter is removed1 it returns to atomic recesses to remain perfectly latent1 until again brought into action by its proper exciter4 ,when a steel unmagnetized bar is associated with a magnetized one1 the latent force in the unmagnetized one is sympathetically brought into action1 associating itself to the magnetic one1 without depreciating the power of it one iota4 ,dissociation and association between the two bars can go on indefinitely with the same result4 ,the suspension and propelling of an atmospheric navigator of any number of tons weight1 can be successfully accomplished by thus exciting the molecular mass of the metal it is constructed of2 and the vibratory neutral negative attraction evolved1 will bring it into perfect control1 commercially1 by keeping it in sympathy with the earth's triune polar stream4 ,there is enough of this latent power locked up in the embrace of the iron ore1 that is contained in our planet1 which1 if liberated and applied to proper vibratory machinery1 would furnish force enough to run the commercial power of the world3 leaving millions of times more to draw upon1 as the needs increase4 ,the velocity of the vibration governing the flow of the magnetic stream1 comes under the head of the first inter-atomic1 and ranges from #cjj1jjj to #ghj1jjj vibrations per second2 the first order above odour permeating the molecules1 of the glass plate of the compass 7with the same facility that atmospheric air would go through an ordinary sieve through which it passes71 to arouse sympathetically in the needle the concordant condition that harmonizes with its own4 ,the course of this sympathetic flow is governed by the full harmonic chord2 and1 consequently1 moves in straight lines2 thus transmitting its sympathy free of molecular interferences4 ,the order of vibration associated with the transmission of odour acts by sympathetic negative interference2 and1 consequently1 moves in circles1 with a velocity of #bbj1jjj per second1 at least4 ,if in any way the circle of its rotatory diameter could be reduced to that of its corpuscular structure1 then a bottle containing an odorous substance1 though sealed as hermetically as an ,edison-light bulb1 could no more confine its corpuscles than an open chimney the smoke ascending from the fire burning at its base4 ,the sympathetic influence of the terrestrial envelope gets its introductory impulse from the infinite depths of the earth's neutral centre4 ,this impulse radiates in undulating lines far enough into etheric space to become sympathetically associated with the etheric 7or ,infinite7 under the same conditions that associate the mental with the physical organism of man4 ,we can define man's molecular condition in its physical organism as the earth1 and its connective link with the convolutionary cerebral centres as the ,infinite etheric domain4 ,thus1 we have1 represented in the planetary masses moving in etheric space1 the same conditions of governing rule as exists between the mental and physical forces4 ,with this medium it is plain to see how simply ,god works1 as well as mysteriously1 ,his wonders to perform2 the mental forces kept vitalized from the great store-house of the etheric realm2 and1 in controlling the physical1 the deficit caused thereby renewed and kept balanced by the power of its sympathetic concordant receptiveness4 ,any visible molecular mass of metal can be so impregnated by triple orders of sympathetic vibration as to give it the same sympathetic transmissive qualities that exist in the mental forces1 which make such mass subservient to either the attractive or repulsive conditions of terrestrial sympathy4 ,gravity is nothing more than a concordant attractive sympathetic stream flowing towards the neutral centre of the earth4 ,this force is inherent in all visible and invisible aggregated forms of matter1 from the very birth of a planet1 around whose centre the molecules cluster by the sympathetic affinity which is thus induced4 ,if these conditions had always maintained a neutral position in etheric space1 no planet would ever have been evolved4 ,these conditions have been fixed by the ,infinite4 ,these rotating neutral centres1 set in celestial space1 have been endowed with the power of rotation to become their own accumulators4 ,it is through the action of these sympathetic forces of the ,infinite etheric realm that planets are born1 and their volume of matter augmented4 ,if we pick up an object1 we feel a resisting power in it which physicists call gravity2 but they do not explain what gravity is4 ,it is simply a sympathetic flow1 proceeding from the molecular centres of neutrality2 which flow is concordant with the earth's neutral centre of same1 seeking this medium of its affinity with a power corresponding to the character of its molecular mass4 ,there is no actual weight in the molecules of the mass of which the earth is composed4 ,if the sympathetic negative polar stream that flows towards the neutral centre of the earth were cut off from it1 the earth's molecular mass would become independent1 and would float away into space as would a soap-bubble filled with warm air4 ,the gravital flow comes1 in this system1 under the order of the sympathetic concordant of the #iths1 and belongs to that third of the triune combination called polar propulsive4 ,magnetism is polar attraction4 ,gravity is polar propulsion4 ,both magnetism and gravity can be accelerated by the proper medium of sympathetic vibratory influences4 ,a ,conjecture4 ,if we take into proper consideration the sympathetic affinity that exists between the centres of the cerebral convolutionary organism1 and the polar terrestrial forces1 as linked to the celestial1 or ,infinite1 the harmonizing effects they have on the normal brain1 and the antagonistic negative bombardment of these streams on the abnormal one1 is it not possible1 by the diversion of pure1 sympathetic streams1 to antagonize abnormal conditions1 by concordant or magnetic polar sympathetic mechanical exciters1 and thus to induce pure normal equilibrium of its corpuscular mass8--which means perfect mental restoration4 ,,chapter ,,xx4 #ahib4 ,,progressive ,,science--,,keely's ,,present ,,position4 7,a ,review of the ,situation47 ,this amount of repetition to some will probably appear to be tedious1 but only by varied iteration can alien conceptions be forced on reluctant minds4--,herbert ,spencer4 ,the researches of ,lodge in ,england and of ,hertz in ,germany give us an almost infinite range of ethereal vibrations4444 ,here is unfolded to us a new and astonishing world1--one which it is hard to conceive should contain no possibilities of transmitting and receiving intelligence4444 ,here also is revealed to us the bewildering possibility of telegraphy without wires1 posts1 cables1 or any of our present costly appliances4444 ,as for myself1 ,i hold the firm conviction that unflagging research will be rewarded by an insight into natural mysteries1 such as now can rarely be conceived4--,professor ,wm4 ,crookes1 ,m4,r4,a41 ,f4,r4,s41 c4 ,vibratory ,philosophy teaches that in the great workshop of ,nature there are no lines of demarcation to be drawn between the most exalted speculation and common-place practice1 and that all knowledge must lead up to one great result2 that of an intelligent recognition of the ,creator through ,his works4 ,facts are the body of science2 speculation is its soul4 ,it has been said that there is nothing more sublime in the history of mind than the lonely struggles which generate and precede success4 ,after the admission made by ,professor ,rcker1 ,m4,a41 at the last meeting of the ,british ,association1 that the ether may be the material of which all matter is composed1 and that we may1 perhaps1 be able to use and control the ether as we now use and control steam1 there would seem to be grounds for hoping that ,keely's lonely and prolonged struggles to utilize in mechanics the ether product which he obtains from his method of dissociating the elements of water1 will be more universally recognized and appreciated than they have yet been4 ,discovery may be unsought and instantaneous1 but the inventions for utilizing discoveries may be1 and generally are1 the work of years4 ,keely first imprisoned the ether in #ahgb1 when its existence was denied2 or1 if admitted by a few1 it was called the hypothetical ether4 ,in #ahhh1 ,professor ,henri ,hertz discovered and announced1 in the ,revue des ,deux ,mondes1 that the ether is held in a state of bondage in all electro-magnetic engines4 ,not until this fact had been made known1 were there any scientific men1 with one notable exception1 who were willing to admit it was possible that ,keely might also have stumbled over the manner of effecting its imprisonment4 ,the nature of ,keely's researches1 and the length of time in which he has been absorbed by the necessary dead-work1 attendant upon research before a discovery can be utilized1 may be gathered from a letter recently written by ,mr4 ,c4 ,g4 ,till1 of ,brooklyn1 ,new ,york3-- ,in ,keely's early struggles1 somewhere about twenty years ago1 ,i became acquainted with him1 and helped him then to the best of my ability4 ,indeed ,i may say that ,i was god-father to his discovery2 for ,i was with him when the idea first entered his head that he could combine steam and water to run an engine4 ,at that time he made a crude machine1 which he actually ran for some time2 and this was the original model of the ,pneumatic-,pulsating-,vacuo-,engine1 in the operation of which he discovered his present force4 ,from that day to this he has been in pursuit of some method as a medium to use what he calls his etheric force with4 ,that he has actually discovered a new force there is not a shadow of doubt4 ,in those days ,i have known him to sell and pawn everything of value in his house to obtain means to continue his investigations with the money thus acquired2 and ,i am sure that he will eventually give to the world the greatest boon that has been received by it since the advent of ,christianity1 etc41 etc4 ,it has been very generally thought that ,keely is pursuing the ignis fatuus of perpetual motion4 ,no greater mistake could have been made4 ,the genuineness of his claims as a discoverer rests upon a correct answer to the question1 ,is hydrogen gas an element or a compound8 ,science1 as ,herodotus said1 is to know things truly3 but science tells us that hydrogen is a simple1 that the atom is not divisible1 and that latent energy is not locked in the interstitial spaces of all forms of matter from their birth or aggregation4 ,keely's system of ,vibratory ,physics refutes these canons of science4 ,how absurd must seem the idea to many that the schools can be wrong1 and that ,keely1 who has been branded by some of these schools as an impostor1 should be right3 but time will show whether ,keely's discoveries have come to stay4 ,the history of the past shows us that science has never been infallible2 that like ,christianity she unfolds her truths progressively4 ,keely teaches that an unknown potency is held in the atom's tenacious grasp1 until released by an introductory impulse given by a certain order of vibration1 depending upon the mass-chord of the aggregation2 which impulse so increases the oscillation of the atoms as to rupture their etheric capsules4 ,all great truths hold germs potential of ever-increasing growth4 ,it took half a century for the ,principia of ,newton to overcome the contempt that was showered upon it2 and now progressive science is overshadowing ,newton's vast attainments4 ,in his giant mind was born the hypothesis that the ether is the cause of light and gravity4 ,keely has been teaching for years1 that ether is the medium of all force4 ,for every effect science requires an efficient cause4 ,hence1 when ,faraday found no definite knowledge in exact sciences to satisfy him on certain points he was led into speculative science1 or the preliminary reaching after truths which we feel must exist by reason of certain effects that come under our observation1 analogous to already known laws3--reduced facts lie behind us2 speculative ones lie before us2 and without these latter science could make no progress4 ,faraday was only speculating when he said3 ,thus either present elements are the true elements2 or else there is the probability before us of obtaining some more high and general power of nature even than electricity2 and which1 at the same time1 might reveal to us an entirely new grade of elements of matter1 now hidden from our view and almost from our suspicion4 ,faraday's keen perception and acute practical judgment1 were never better exemplified than in ,keely's discovery of ,negative ,attraction2 the laws governing which he is still researching2 theorizing that it is the energy which controls the planetary masses in their advance toward each other1 and in their recession from each other1--the energy which lifts the seas and the oceans out of their beds1 and replaces them once in twenty-four hours2 in other words1 explaining the mystery of the action of gravity4 ,had ,faraday lived longer he might have anticipated ,keely in one of his discoveries2 for he certainly was on the road to it1 in the views of force and matter which he held that were not in accordance with the accepted views of his time2 and which were then set aside as wild speculations1 by the physicists who complained of his want of mathematical accuracy1 of his entertaining notions altogether distinct from the views generally held by men of science1 who continued their experimental researches on their own lines4 ,in #ahhe1 before ,keely's scientific explorations had taught him that no engine can ever be constructed by which the ether can be used and controlled1 as we now use and control steam1 he wrote1 in a letter to a friend1 ,i shall not forestall an unproved conclusion1 but fight step by step the dark paths ,i am exploring1 knowing that1 should ,i succeed in proving one single fact in science heretofore unknown1 ,i shall in so doing be rewarded in the highest degree4 ,in whatever direction the human mind travels it comes quickly to a boundary line which it cannot pass4 ,there is a knowable field of research1 bordered by an unknown tract4 ,my experience teaches me how narrow is the strip of territory which belongs to the knowable1 how very small the portion that has been traversed and taken possession of4 ,the further we traverse this unknown territory1 the stronger will become our faith in the immovable order of the world2 for1 at each advancing step1 we find fresh fruits of the immutable laws that reign over all things1--from the falling apple1 up to the thoughts1 the words1 the deeds1 the will of man3 and we find these laws irreversible and eternal1 order and method reigning throughout the universe4 ,some details of this universal method have been worked up1 and we know them by the names of 'gravitation1' 'chemical affinity1' 'nerve-power1' c4 ,these material certainties are as sacred as moral certainties4444 ,the nearest approach to a certainty is made through harmony with nature's laws4 ,the surest media are those which nature has laid out in her wonderful workings4 ,the man who deviates from these paths will suffer the penalty of a defeat1 as is seen in the record of 'perpetual motion' seekers4 ,i have been classed with such dreamers2 but ,i find consolation in the thought that it is only by those men who are utterly ignorant of the great and marvellous truths which ,i have devoted my life to demonstrate and to bring within reach of all4 ,i believe the time is near at hand when the principles of etheric evolution will be established1 and when the world will be eager to recognize and accept a system that will certainly create a revolution for the highest benefits of mankind1 inaugurating an era undreamed of by those who are now ignorant of the existence of this etheric force4 ,these views which have guided ,keely in all his researches cannot be made known to any just1 discerning mind without an accompanying perception of the gross way in which he has been misrepresented by his defamers2 as well as some appreciation of the scientifically cautious manner in which he has pursued his investigations1 since he abandoned his efforts to construct an engine that would hold the ether in rotation4 ,at the present time ,keely is concentrating his efforts on the perfecting of his mechanical conditions to that point where1 according to his theories1 he will be able to establish1 on the ninths1 a sympathetic affinity with pure1 polar1 negative attraction1 minus magnetism4 ,in his own opinion he has so nearly gained the summit1 or completion of his graduation1 as to feel that he holds the key to the control of the infinitely tenuous conditions which lie before him to be conquered1 before he gains mastery of the group of depolar disks that he is now working upon4 ,twenty-six groups are completed1 and when the twenty-seventh and last group is under equal control1 ,keely expects to establish a circuit of vibratory force1 for running machinery3 both for aerial navigation and for terrestrial use4 ,if this result be obtained1 ,keely will then be in a position to give his system to science2 and to demonstrate the ever-operative immanence of the ,infinite builder of all things of whom our ,lord said1 ,my ,father worketh hitherto1 and ,i work4 ,in commercial use ,keely expects that when the motion has been once set up1 in any of his machines1 it will continue until the material is worn out4 ,it is this claim which has caused ,keely to be classed with perpetual-motion seekers4 ,for years ,keely has been trying to utilize his discoveries for the material and moral advantage of humanity3 and yet he feels1 as ,buckle has said of the present acquirements of science1 that the ground only is broken1 that the crust only is touched4 ,the loftiest pinnacle which has been reached by the men who are foremost in their constructions of the method by which the one source of all energy works in the material world1 is too insignificant a position to obtain even an outlook towards the vast realm that ,keely figuratively describes as the infinite brain2 or the source from which all sympathetic-leads emanate1 that connect mind with matter4 ,realizing that all conditions of matter are but as vain illusions1 he never falters in his determination to reach after the hidden things of ,god1 if haply he may find them4 ,even the goal which he seeks to attain lies1 in his own estimation1 on the outermost border of this crust2 and well he knows that it never can be reached in any other way than by principles of exact science and by pursuing a path that is at all times lighted by reason4 ,believing that the horizon of the world of matter1 which has been thought to rest over hydrogen1 extends to infinite reaches1 including substances which have never been revealed to the senses1 he knows how unfathomable is the ocean that lies beyond1 and like ,newton compares himself to one who is gathering pebbles on its shore4 ,science1 which has ever been interested both in the infinitely small and infinitely great1 has in our age dropped the only clue that can guide through the obscure labyrinth which leads into depths of nature lying beyond the knowledge of our unaided senses4 ,the evolution of the human race1 says ,nesbit1 has passed from the physiological into the psychological field2 and it is in the latter alone that progress may be looked for4 ,this is the realm into which ,keely's efforts1 to give to the world a costless motive power1 have slowly conducted him through the black darkness of the region in which he has been fighting his way1 for a score of years1 in behalf of true science and humanity4 ,lord ,derby has said that modern science1 on its popular side1 is really a great factory of popular fallacies2 that its expounders in one decade are kept busy refuting the errors to which the preceding decade has given currency4 ,there is hardly a branch of science1 he says1 susceptible of general and wide-reaching conclusions1 which might not be revolutionized by some discovery to-morrow4 ,if ,keely is able to establish his theories1 physical science will have to abandon the positions to which she clings1 and forced to admit that there exists a purity of conditions in ,vibratory ,physics unknown in mechanical physics1 undreamed of even in philosophy2 for he will then be in a position to demonstrate the outflow of the ,infinite mind as sympathetically associated with matter visible and invisible4 ,of this philosophy ,professor ,daniel ,g4 ,brinton has said1 ,it is so simple1 beautiful and comprehensive in its vibratory theory that ,i hope it will be found experimentally to be true4 ,to me all commercial and practical results1 motors1 air-ships1 engines1 are of no importance by the side of the theoretical truth of the demonstrations of this cosmic force4 ,as soon as ,dr4 ,koenig is prepared to report on the purely technical and physical character of the experiments1 ,i shall be1 in fact ,i am1 ready to go into full details as to their significance in reference to both matter and mind4 ,it will be enough for me if ,dr4 ,koenig is able to say that the force handled by ,keely is not gravity1 electricity1 magnetism1 compressed air1 nor other of the well-known forces4 ,let him say that1 and ,i will undertake to say what the force is4 ,tests were made last year by ,dr4 ,koenig and ,dr4 ,tuttle1 a ,baltimore physicist1 in the presence of other men of science with the most sensitive galvanometer belonging to the ,university of ,pennsylvania1 all of whom were satisfied that no known force had been detected4 ,the abstract of ,keely's philosophy1 written by ,dr4 ,brinton1 has made ,keely's theories intelligible for the first time4 ,each new discovery necessitates a new vocabulary2 and ,keely's writings are obscure because of his new nomenclature4 ,when ,faraday's ideas differed from those held by the authorities of his time1 they were pronounced to be untranslatable into scientific language2 and as was then said of ,faraday1 so can it now be said of ,keely1 with equal truth1 that1 working at the very boundaries of our knowledge1 his mind habitually dwells in the boundless contiguity of shade by which that knowledge is surrounded4 ,the brain of an ,aristotle was needed to discern and grasp ,keely's meaning1 to interpret and define it4 ,dr4 ,brinton never touches a subject without throwing light upon it1 and his penetrating mind perceived the ideas to be defined in all their relations4 ,his keen logical acumen separated and classified them in their order1 in a true1 sound1 and scientific manner4 ,in the words of ,sir ,james ,crichton ,browne1 who heard ,professor ,brinton read this abstract in ,london1 ,professor ,brinton's synopsis is an able1 lucid and logical paper4 ,now that such distinguished men are interesting themselves in ,keely's discoveries1 there is no longer any danger of their being lost to science2 nor to commerce1 if his life is spared4 ,the action of ,dr4 ,pepper 7,provost of the ,university of ,pennsylvania7 in ,january1 #ahia1 gave ,keely all the protection that he then needed in order to continue his researches up to the completion of his system4 ,professor ,dewar of the ,royal ,institution of ,great ,britain1 whose ,cambridge duties prevented him from keeping the engagement made for him to visit ,mr4 ,keely's workshop in ,december1 #ahia1 is now compelled to wait1 until notified that ,keely is in a position to demonstrate his theories1 as it is desirable that he should not be interrupted in the critical work that is at present engrossing him1 at times eighteen hours out of the twenty-four4 ,but although ,keely has not instructed anyone in his method of disintegrating water1 to obtain the ether1 which he uses as the medium of the polar force1 he does not withhold the principle by which he obtains it4 ,sir ,john ,herschell said1 ,there is a principle in the science of music that has yet to be discovered4 ,pythagoras taught that the principle which underlies the harmonies of music1 underlies the motion of the heavenly bodies4 ,it is this principle which ,keely has discovered2 but until he has utilized it in mechanics1 he has nothing more to sell than ,sir ,isaac ,newton had when he discovered gravity1 as ,professor ,fitzgerald has said4 ,discovery and invention are walking side by side in our age1 the glorious scientific age of the world4 ,never before have they so linked themselves together1 working for humanity2 and it is but natural that those savants who have seen no demonstrations of the force ,keely is handling should regard with apathy claims1 which1 if established1 would sweep away like chaff before a whirlwind1 some of the canons of their schools4 ,in fact1 this apathy is a great improvement upon the active persecution of the learned men who hurried ,copernicus and ,galileo to prison1 and established the ,inquisition to deal with heretics in science as well as heretics in religion4 ,commerce rushed ,keely into a dungeon2 science looking on in approval2 notwithstanding that conjectures of the most celebrated modern member of its school supported ,keely's teachings4 ,galileo was brought before the ,inquisition2 the tribunal pronounced him a deluded teacher and a lying heretic4 ,they intended to subject him to the severest torture and death4 ,galileo was old1 and felt that he could not endure such a terrible death4 ,he knelt on the crucifix1 with one hand on the ,bible1 and renounced all4 ,when he arose1 however1 it is reported that he whispered to one of the attendants1 ,the earth does move for all that4 ,sir ,isaac ,newton has written of the possibility of discovering unknown forms of energy1 in ,nature1 in these strong words3 ,for it is well known that bodies act upon one another by the attractions of gravity1 magnetism and electricity1 and these instances show the tenor and course of nature and make it not improbable that there may be more powers of attraction than these4 ,for ,nature is very consonant and conformable to herself4 ,all progress of whatever kind would be put back1 if it were in the power of bigots to arrest its triumphal march1 as they have done in the past1 but the evolution of the human race remains in the hands of the ,infinite ,one1 who never fails to open up new paths when the farther development of humanity requires it4 ,all systems may be said to have descended from previous ones4 ,the ideas of one generation are the mysterious progenitors of those in the next4 ,each age is the dawn of its successor2 and in the eternal advance of truth1 ',there always is a rising sun1 ,the day is ever but begun4' ,religious and scientific reformation have always gone hand in hand1 says ,dr4 ,lowber4 ,in fact1 religious science is superior to any other science4 ,as ,christianity is the pure religion which contains the truth of all the rest1 so it is the highest of the sciences1 for it represents the development of the highest faculty of the human nature4 ,religion develops manhood as nothing else will1 and ,christianity represents the highest culture to which it is possible for man to attain4444 ,the system1 now being evolved and worked out to demonstration by ,keely1 restores1 by religious science1 the faith of which materialistic science has been robbing the world1 thus confirming ,dr4 ,lowber's assertions that materialists will never be able to reduce all natural and spiritual forces to mere vibratory action of matter2 and that the reformatory movement in philosophy1 which characterizes our age1 will continue until all the sciences point to ,god and immortality4 ,a writer in ,galignani's ,messenger1 ,march #b1 #ahib1 says3 ,when the nineteenth century closes1 the most marvellous period ever known to man will be stored away in ,time's granary4 ,can the twentieth century by any possibility be more productive1 more fertile1 more prolific of wonders than its predecessor8 ,the face of the world has been changed2 space has been annihilated2 science puts 'a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes4' ,we may be almost excused if we are tempted to believe that the serpent's promise is fulfilled in our persons1 and we are as gods4 ,alas for human complacency6 ,perhaps our descendants a thousand years hence will look upon us as pigmies4 ,be that as it may1 the past and the present are ours1 with their achievement1 and we believe we shall hand down to posterity a goodly heritage4 ,the ,new ,york ,home ,journal1 of the week before ,christmas1 #ahib1 points out1 in its leader1 the road on which this advance in the cause of humanity may be made4 ,the writer1 ,mr4 ,howard ,hinton1 says3 ,the spirit of the salutation1 ',a ,merry ,christmas1' lies in the desire that peace and goodwill shall reign among men1 nor1 if we may trust the intimations of the latest science1 will this universality of good wishing be without avail in effecting its own accomplishment4 ,for1 as we are told by the wise men of science1 every thought1 every mental impulse of ours1 sets in motion1 in that realm of ether which it is said interfuses all coarser forms of matter1 certain vibrations1 corresponding in force to their cause1 which have power to communicate themselves to other minds favourably conditioned to receive them1 and so excite in them like thoughts and impulses4 ,and are not common observation and individual experience in accord with this suggestion of science8 ,do we not say at times that a certain thought is in the air1 revealing itself contemporaneously to many widely separated minds without any recognizable means of communication8 ,and do we not sometimes find a noble1 or it may be an ignoble1 impulse breaking out in a community with a suddenness and universality that would seem to transcend all the ordinary forms of the contact of mind with mind8 ,perhaps1 too1 this theory of vibratory communication through an ethereal medium may explain1 in part at least1 that ',welt-,geist1' that ',spirit of the ,age1' of which the philosophers discourse so bravely4 ,again1 there are times--if the experiences and observations of sensitive minds have any worth--when a general spirit of expectancy seems to be awakened1 as if the world were on the eve of some new and epoch-making revelation of science1 or some new enthusiasm of regenerative impulse4 ,are we not now1 at this hour1 in this mood of silent expectancy1 thrilled with an indefinable awe of what the brooding life of the world is maturing for the sons of men8--sensitive1 perhaps1 to ethereal vibrations that have not yet accumulated force for expression in conscious thought or for the definite determination of our hearts' desires8 ,this may be fanciful4 ,it may be simply that we are beginning to perceive that physical science has reached a stage of development when some new and more central truth1 some profounder generalization1 is needed to give further impulse to its essential progress4 ,it may be that we are becoming aware that the conditions of society are such that some new unifying motive1 some new enthusiasm of humanity is needed for its salvation2 and that therefore we wait in expectancy for what--knowing that there can be no let nor hindrance in the onward movement of life--we feel in our hearts must come4 ,and yet does not this sense of expectancy seem to communicate itself from mind to mind by some other means than that of oral or written expression1 and to touch with more or less force even minds that are free from these intellectual anticipations8 ,are there not certain intellects at the fore-front of the world's progress1 and certain hearts filled above the ordinary measure with the love of mankind1 who are thus centres of power1 from whom spread ever widening circles of vibratory emanations that gradually involve all minds in a common thought and all hearts in a common purpose8 ',many men of many minds4' ,yes1 truly2 but there is the one mind of humanity that thinks and thinks1 and alone has the power to externalize its thought as part of the world's history1 while all purely individual thought is blown finally into the abyss of the ,absolute ,nothing4 ,but it is not only the great souls that thus move and shape the world4 ,we are all1 in various degrees1 centres and distributors of the ethereal force1 so far as we are in touch with its waves of vibration4 ,we can all make our thoughts1 if they are one with the thought of humanity1 and our desires1 if they are one with the heart of humanity1 felt by our fellows in extending circles of effluence till finally the very clods of human kind know the stirrings of a new life and wake to the higher reality as from a dream4 ,and if individually we can thus set in movement this ethereal medium1 how must not this movement be quickened and extended when collectively we give utterance to some great thought and heart's desire1 announcing it in song and prayer and merry-making4 ,hence the use and potency of the great festivals1 the best and sweetest of which is the ,christmas festival that we are now about to celebrate--the ,evening ,star of the year that is passing1 the ,morning ,star of the new4 ,,chapter ,,xxi4 ,,faith ,,by ,,science3 ,,the ,,dawn ,,of ,a ,,new ,,order ,,of ,,things4 ,all for each and each for all4 ,god will take account of the selfishness of wealth1 and ,his quarrel has yet to be fought out4--,rev4 ,f4 ,robertson4 ,all the great things of time have been done by single men1 from ,judas ,maccabeus down to ,cromwell4 ,we hear the age spoken of as degenerative because of the vast accumulations of wealth4 ,but wealth may be a power for beneficence1 as great brains may be1 and we have no more reason for regretting large fortunes than large heads4 ,no doubt to secure a perfect equality of all people we need small heads1 and small heads or empty heads go with empty purses4 ,by no other means can you level us4 ,so also by wealth the world has been moved1 and will continue to be moved4 ,can we consecrate money power to humanity1 as we do mind power8 ,we do not see why not4 ,and in our judgment anyone who does not feel the change that is going on must be blind4 ,it is not legislation that will produce a moral revolution1 but a new enthusiasm4 ,the future holds for us a grand enthusiasm of this sort--a moralization of property and possession4--,social ,science in ,science ,siftings4 ,a wave of unrest seems to be passing over the world4 ,uneasiness prevails on every side4 ,we walk gingerly as though on the edge of a precipice4 ,discontent is spreading everywhere4 ,the struggle between capital and labour threatens to reach unheard-of proportions4444 ,what is the meaning of the general restlessness8 ,what are its causes8 ,is the world growing old and effete8 ,is the human race worn out8 ,is this generation incapable of the great achievements of the past8 ,does its materialism clog its powers and prevent its progress8 ,is the world going wrong for want of an ideal8 ,a people which does not believe in its lofty mission will never accomplish it4 ,science has made gigantic strides in our days2 but have its discoveries added much to the sum of human happiness8 ,it has contributed to our material comfort in various ways1 but it has not done much for the federation of the world4 ,the great growth of luxury is not a good1 but an evil1 if it rob us of our belief in our great destiny and if it weaken our endeavour4 ,if the time is out of joint1 is it not possible that worship of wealth is responsible for it8 ,he who makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent4 ,ours is emphatically the age in which men make haste to be rich1 without much regard to the means4 ,capital has profited unduly at the expense of labour2 employers have attained to fortune too quickly for the welfare of the employed4 ,commerce has forsaken the path of safety to indulge in rash and reckless speculation4 ,businesses have been converted into companies more for the benefit of vendors and financial houses than for the public4 ,company promotion has been carried to reckless lengths1 and schemes for getting rich rapidly--schemes of the ,south ,sea bubble order--have multiplied in every part of the civilized world4 ,the ,nemesis has come in the shape of restlessness1 discontent1 paralysis of trade1 strikes1 disorganization of finance1 demoralization of ,bourses1 and general insecurity4 ,it is a fact proved countless times in history that whenever a national need is felt1 a man is raised up to supply the want4--,galignani's ,messenger4 ,the first seal is being broken in the book of vibratory philosophy2 the first stepping-stone is placed toward reaching the solution of that infinite problem1 the origin of life4--,john ,ernst ,worrell ,keely1 #ahij4 ,the seals are opened1 as it were1 under the sign ,leo--as believing that such an age is coming on in which prophecy may be fulfilled that the earth be filled with the knowledge of the ,lord1 which shall cover it with wisdom and understanding in the deep mysteries of ,god4--,jane ,lead1 #afii4 ,evils bear in themselves the causes of their own extirpation4 ,providence is bringing the old order of things to a close in order to provide place for something better and higher4--,julian ,hawthorne4 ,professor ,rowland1 in his paper on the ,spectra of ,metals1 which he read at ,leeds1 says that the object of his research is primarily to find out what sort of things molecules are1 and in what way they vibrate4 ,the primary object of ,mr4 ,keely's researches has been to find out all that he could about the laws that control vibrations1 and on this line of research he made his discoveries1 as to what sort of things molecules and atoms are1 and in what way they vibrate4 ,one of the editors of the ,times1 in ,london1 in ,january1 #ahia1 wrote out this question for ,keely to answer3--,what impulse led you primarily into the research of acoustic physics8 ,keely replied1 ,an impulse associated sympathetically with my mental organism from birth1 seemingly1 as ,i was acutely sensible of it in my childhood4 ,before ,i had reached my tenth year1 researching in the realm of acoustic physics had a perfect fascination for me2 my whole organism seemed attuned as if it were a harp of a thousand strings2 set for the reception of all the conditions associated with sound force as a controlling medium1 positive and negative2 and with an intensity of enjoyment not to be described4 ,from that time to the present1 ,i have been absorbed in this research1 and it has opened up to me the laws that govern the higher workings of nature's sympathetic1 hidden forces2 leading me gradually on to the solution of the problem relating to the conditions that exist between the celestial and terrestrial outreaches1 viz41 polar negative attraction4 ,another question asked by the same editor3 ,what is the main difficulty to be overcome before completing the system for commercial benefit8 ,answer3 ,the principal difficulty rests in equating the thirds of the thirds of the transmitters 7i4e41 the gold1 silver1 and platina sections1 of which the transmitting wires are composed7 to free them of molecular differentiation4 ,the full control of this force can never be accomplished1 until pure molecular equation is established between the nodal interferences 7that result in their manufacture7 and the chord mass of their sectional parts4 ,when this has been done1 the chasm between the alternation of the polar forces1 which now exists1 preventing the inducing of polar and depolar conditions1 will be bridged over and commercial benefits at once established as the result4 ,the devices for inducing these conditions1 primarily1 are perfect3 but the pure1 connective link on transmission has to be equated1 before continued mechanical rotation and reversion can be attained4 ,as has already been said1 ,keely's researches have all been on the line of vibrations2 and it was while pursuing them that he stumbled over1 to use his own words1 the inter-atomic subdivision of the molecule1 which released the ,geni that for years thereafter was his master4 ,keely's attention not having been turned to molecules and atoms1 he was not able1 in the earliest years of his discovery of the existence of a force of nature more powerful and more general even than electricity1 to form any opinion as to the origin of the force4 ,he was as one who1 in the thick darkness of an underground labyrinth1 found himself face to face with a giant1 whose form even he could not see to lay hold of in a death grapple2 but when a germ of the knowledge that he needed fell on his mind1 he was quick to seize it1 and the acorn grew into an oak4 ,here again1 to use his own words3 ,i was as a boulder resting on the summit of a mountain1 until an introductory impulse was given to start it on its course2 then rushing onwards and carrying all before it1 when the goal is reached its concussion will produce the crash that will awaken a sleeping world4 ,priestley proclaimed it as his belief that all discoveries are made by chance2 but ,providence sends chance1 and the man of genius is he who is able to improve all opportunities and mould them to his own ends4 ,in a discovery1 says ,edison1 there must be an element of the accidental1 and an important one too2 discovery is an inspiration1 while an invention is purely deductive4 ,the story of the apple dropping from the tree1 and ,newton starting with a species of ,eureka1 he rejects absolutely4 ,maintaining that an abstract idea or a natural law may1 in one sense1 be invented1 he gives it as his opinion that ,newton did not discover the theory of gravitation1 but invented it2 and that he might have been at work on the problem for years1 inventing theory after theory1 to which he found it impossible to fit his facts4 ,that ,keely claims to have discovered an unknown source of energy has not seemed to disturb the equilibriums of some of the men of science who have witnessed the demonstrations of the force1 as much as that he should have invented theories in regard to the operation of the laws that control it4 ,for a man who had lived more than half a century without troubling himself as to the existence of molecules and atoms to suddenly awaken to the knowledge of their existence1 and to invent theories as to what sort of things they are and how they vibrate1 was sufficient proof1 in their eyes1 that he invented his discovery2 but men who are1 in thought1 reaching out into unknown realms1 are the very men who are most likely to lay hold of a discovery2--as did ,bell1 who1 speculating upon the nature of sound1 filed an invention for his telephone before he discovered that articulate speech could be conveyed along a wire4 ,it was in the same way that ,keely1 speculating upon the nature of vibration1 was led into the field of invention2 and while experimenting with one of his inventions1 he suddenly stepped into that great unknown territory which lies beyond the horizon of ordinary matter4 ,it took him nearly a score of years to find out where he was4 ,years of experiment followed before he was able to summon the ,geni at will2 for when his lever first registered a pressure of #bjjj lbs41 while subjecting water to the action of multiplied vibrations1 he had no idea how to proceed1 as far as the number of vibrations were concerned1 to repeat the operation4 ,commencing at a certain point1 he increased the vibrations day by day until1 six years later1 he was able to effect the dissociation at will4 ,but at that time ,mr4 ,keely had too much mechanical work to do to give any of his time to theorizing4 ,he was in the clutches of a speculating ,keely ,motor ,company1 whose cry was1 ,give us an engine6 and day and night this toiler fought his way in the underground labyrinth1 thinking only of a commercial engine4 ,it was not until ,macvicar's ,sketch of a ,philosophy fell into ,mr4 ,keely's hands that he realized he had imprisoned the ether4 ,this was in #ahhd1 and1 four years later1 in #ahhh1 ,professor ,hertz of ,bonn announced that we were using the ether1 without knowing it1 in all electro-magnetic engines4 ,by this time ,keely's researches in vibratory physics had led him well on his way in the construction of hypotheses as to what sort of things molecules are1 and in what way they vibrate4 ,an hypothesis treats a supposed thing as an existing thing1 for the purpose of proving1 by experimental demonstration1 whether the supposition is correct or not4 ,at a critical juncture1 ,mrs4 ,j4 ,f4 ,hughes 7a grand-niece of ,charles ,darwin71 hearing of ,keely's researches1 became interested in his work2 and her book on ,the ,evolution of ,tones and ,colours was sent to ,mr4 ,keely4 ,an expression used by ,mrs4 ,hughes in that work1 brought a suggestion to ,mr4 ,keely4 ,the veil of darkness was rent asunder which had enveloped him in what he called ,egyptian blackness1 and from that time he worked no longer in the dark4 ,pythagoras taught that the same law which underlies harmonies underlies the motion of the heavenly bodies1 or1 as ,mrs4 ,hughes has expressed it1 ,the law which develops and controls harmony1 develops and controls the universe4 ,mr4 ,keely1 nothing daunted by the vast extent1 the stupendous outreach of the domain1 the boundary line of which he had thus crossed1 concentrated all his energies upon the situation2 thinking thereafter1 not alone of the interests of commerce as before1 but of the developing of a system1 which he could give to science in the same hour that he should hand over1 to those whose thoughts were only on financial gain1 the inventions that our age is demanding1 in the interests of humanity1 with the stern voice of the master necessity2 a voice that never fails to make itself heard in the voice of the people4 ,experiment after experiment justified his hypotheses1 and converted them into theories4 ,to keep pace with the wants of humanity1 invention must now walk side by side with philosophy4 ,it took half a century for the ,principia of ,newton to tread down the contempt and opposition that its publication met with2 and now progressive knowledge is overshadowing ,newton's vast attainments4 ,faraday1 after discovering electro-magnetic conditions1 as related to latent or hidden energy1 did not pursue his researches far enough to establish a theory as to the mode of transference of magnetic force1 though1 in some of his speculations on the line of force1 he hit upon truths now advanced in ,keely's theories4 ,the physicists of ,faraday's time could not reach up to him4 ,they complained of his obscurity of language1 of his want of mathematical precision1 of his entertaining notions regarding matter and force altogether distinct from the views generally held by men of science4 ,it is not then to be wondered at that modern physicists took up lines of research more in accordance with their own views4 ,the experiences of one age are repeated in another age2 and the same charges that were brought against ,faraday are now brought against ,keely2 coupled with shameful attempts to prove him to be a fraud2 a man living upon the credulity of his victims2 a modern ,cagliostro2 an artful pretender4 ,the question is often asked1 ,is he not an ignorant man8 ,yes1 so ignorant1 that he knows how ignorant he is2 so ignorant1 that he asserts with ,anaxagoras1 that intelligent will is the disposer and cause of everything2 and not satisfied with asserting this great truth1 he has devoted the remnant of his days to finding out and demonstrating how this cause operates throughout nature4 ,but ignorant as ,keely has always confessed himself to be1 he knows more of the mysterious laws of nature which hold the planets in their courses and exert their dynamic effect upon the tides1 more of the shock effect which1 brought to bear upon molecules1 causes their disruption and supplies the fine fluid thus liberated1 that extends the shock effect1 as ,frederick ,major has conjectured1 to the atoms that compose them4 ,ignorant as ,keely is1 he knows that out of the strife of tremendous forces which is ever going on in nature1 is born a creation of law and harmony2 that from atomic recesses to the farthest depth there is naught but toil co-operant to an end1 that all these atoms march in time1 and that it is no blind cause which originates and maintains all4 ,admitting his ignorance1 ,keely claims with ,dr4 ,watson that the many who are compelled to walk should not scoff at those who try to fly4 ,all who agree in believing that the advance of the modern school of natural philosophy affords no justification for the intolerant and exclusive position taken by certain physicists1 will be ready to examine ,keely's theories1 in the light of his demonstrations1 even although they have been stigmatized as fallacies4 ,science owes large obligations to many fallacious theories4 ,canon ,moseley has said that the perfecting of the theory of epicycles is due to the astrologers of the middle ages2 and that but for them the system of ,copernicus would have remained a bare speculation1 as did that of ,pythagoras for more than two thousand years4 ,in the same way that astrology nurtured astronomy1 chemistry was cradled by alchemy4 ,keely welcomes criticism of his theories1 and is able to answer all who come to him with criticisms in a proper spirit4 ,to quote one of his own expressions1 as far as a physical truth is concerned ,i never throw up the sponge for any one4 ,of ,professor ,crookes1 ,keely wrote quite recently3 ,your friend is wrong in saying that ,i dabble in chemical heresies4 ,there must be some misunderstanding on his part1 for ,i have never asserted that nitrogen is a necessary constituent of water4 ,i only said that1 after a thousand experiments had been conducted1 there was a residual deposit1 in one of my tubes1 of a resinous substance that showed nitrogenous elements1 which ,i could not account for4 ,i consider ,professor ,crookes one of the greatest of discoverers1 and1 when he understands my system1 he will be one of the first to endorse it4 ,a philosophical journalist says of the force discovered by ,keely1 that it is harder to believe in than either steam or electricity1 because it has no visible manifestation in nature4 ,it does not rise in white clouds from every boiling kettle1 or flash with vivid light in every thunderstorm4 ,it does not show itself in the fall of every loosened body to the earth1 like gravitation1 nor can it be discovered1 like oxygen1 by chemical investigation4 ,if it exists at all1 it is in a form entirely passive1 giving no hint of its presence until it is brought out by the patient investigator1 as the sculptor's chisel brings out the beautiful statue from the shapeless mass of marble4 ,working thus entirely in the dark1 with an intangible1 imponderable1 invisible something whose nature and attributes are all unknown1 and whose characteristics differ essentially from those of any other known force1 what wonder if the inventor's progress is slow and his disappointments many8 ,mr4 ,keely may be deceived1 or he may have discovered an actual force which he is unable to harness2 but the fact that he is very slow in perfecting whatever discovery he may have made is no proof that he has not made a very great one4 ,far be it from us to say in this age of scientific marvels1 that any proposition whatever is impossible of accomplishment2 but while we wait for ,mr4 ,keely to make his alleged discovery public1 before we become enthusiastic over it1 we would not set it down as a fraud and the reputed discovery as a humbug4 ,it is the nature of inventors to be enthusiastic and to think that they are on the eve of success when1 in fact1 a great deal remains to be done4 ,especially is this the case in the development of a hitherto unknown force4 ,james ,watt had a comparatively straight road to travel from his mother's tea-kettle to his first steam-engine1 but it took him many years to traverse it4 ,more than a lifetime elapsed after ,franklin drew electricity from a cloud before ,morse sent it over a telegraph wire1 and ,morse himself worked for years to make it available for business purposes2 while men are still constantly finding new adaptations of the mysterious force of which that was the first practical application4 ,but1 as ,frederick ,major has said1 ,science at present is too full of its own erroneous theories to accept or even notice theories outside of science1 until practically proved1 and probably not even then unless they can foist them upon the public as partially their own4 ,these words are not applicable to all men of science4 ,there are some1 among those most eminent1 who1 in the spirit of true science1 are quite prepared for other roads to knowledge than those of our three hundred years old induction school4 ,the late ,professor ,w4 ,k4 ,clifford1 ,f4,r4,s41 was one of those men who1 in their earnest desire for truth at any cost1 was ready to advance in every direction open to him4 ,no fear of a false step held him back4 ,he did not belong to the category of philosophical sceptics whom ,dr4 ,stoney has so well classified as damping all advance1 unless it can be carried on1 from the beginning1 under such conditions of perfection as are impossible in the early stages of every discovery and of almost every inquiry4 ,professor ,stoney has well described ,keely's method of work in these remarks3 ,in the scientific method of investigating the validity of our beliefs1 we take our existing beliefs as our starting point1 or a careful selection of those which are fitted to enable us to advance4 ,after the legitimate consequences of these have been worked out1 the inquirer finds himself in a better position to return and test the validity of the bases on which he proceeded4 ,after these revisions1 and such corrections as he finds possible1 he makes a step of a like kind farther forward3 after which another revision and another advance4 ,thus real progress is accomplished4 ,probabilities acquire strength and accumulate2 and in the end a state of mind is attained replete with knowledge of the realities within and around us4 ,the sea of knowledge on which man makes his brief voyage is for the most part unfathomable4 ,he cannot hope1 except near shore1 to measure the whole depth1 and thus attain philosophical certainty4 ,but the scientific student may diligently use such a sounding line as he possesses--that of probability--and with it explore wide expanses under which there are no rocks nor shoals within the utmost depth that he can plumb1 and over which he may securely sail4 ,compare this with the situation of the philosophical sceptic1 groping among rocks along the shore1 and not venturing beyond the shallow margin which he can probe with his little pole4 ,professor ,clifford struck out boldly in this unfathomable ocean of knowledge1 when he admitted the infinite divisibility of the atom1 which is one of the bases of ,keely's theories4 ,and how exquisitely did his penetrating vision pierce the mists of materialism when he wrote3--,every time that analysis strips from nature the gilding that we prized1 she is forging thereat a new picture more glorious than before1 to be suddenly revealed by the advent of a new sense whereby we see it--a new creation1 at sight of which the sons of ,god shall have cause to shout for joy4 ,what now shall ,i say of this new-grown perception of ,law1 which finds the infinite in a speck of dust1 and the act of eternity in every second of time8 ,shall ,i say that it kills our sense of the beautiful1 and takes all the romance out of nature8 ,and1 moreover1 that it is nothing more than a combining and reorganizing of our old experiences2 that it never can give us anything really new2 that we must progress in the same monotonous way for ever4 ,but wait a moment4 ,what if this combining and organizing is to become first habitual1 then organic and unconscious1 so that the sense of law becomes a direct perception8 ,shall we not then be really seeing something new8 ,shall there not be a new revelation of a great and more perfect cosmos1 a universe fresh-born1 a new heaven and a new earth8 ,mors janua vit1 by death to this world we enter upon a new life in the next4 ,doubtless there shall by-and-by be laws as far transcending those we now know as they do the simplest observation4 ,the new incarnation may need a second passion2 but1 evermore1 beyond it is the ,easter glory4 ,in these words there is the true ring of divinely inspired prophecy to those who know of the pure philosophy which ,keely's system unfolds2 teaching the wondrous ways of ,him who is perfect in knowledge4 ,professor ,clifford was one of those whom ,ernest ,renan has classified as scouts in the great army1 who divine beforehand that which becomes ere long patent to all4 ,in their rapid and venturesome advance they catch sight before the others of the smiling plains and lofty peaks4 ,the student of nature has been compared to a hound1 wildly running after1 and here and there chancing on game1 universal exploration1 a beating up of the game on all sides1 that and that only is the sole possible method4 ,and this is the spirit of those who pursue their researches in a scientific frame of mind3 while those who enter the field in a sceptical mood1 are indisposed to step out of the beaten track where they feel sure of their footing4 ,they have no ambitions to meet the fate of the trilobites in ,professor ,clifford's amusing apologue4 ,once upon a time--much longer than six thousand years ago--the ,trilobites were the only people that had eyes2 and they were only just beginning to have them4 ,some of the ,trilobites1 even1 had as yet no signs of coming sight4 ,so that the utmost they could know was that they were living in darkness1 and that perhaps there was such a thing as light4 ,but at last one of them got so far advanced that when he happened to come to the top of the water in the daytime he saw the sun4 ,so he went down and told the others that in general the world was light1 but there was one great light which caused it all4 ,then they killed him for disturbing the commonwealth2 but they considered it impious to doubt that in general the world was light1 and that there was one great light which caused it all4 ,and they had great disputes about the manner in which they had come to know this4 ,afterwards1 another of them got so far advanced that when he happened to come to the top of the water1 in the night-time1 he saw the stars4 ,so he went down and told the others that in general the world was dark1 but that1 nevertheless1 there were a great number of little lights in it4 ,then they killed him for maintaining false doctrines2 but from that time there was a division amongst them1 and all the ,trilobites were split in two parties1 some maintaining one thing and some the other1 until such time as so many of them had learned to see that there could be no doubt about the matter that both of the savant ,trilobites were right4 ,bacon has compared the mind of man to a prisoner in a cave with his back to the light1 who sees only shadows of the events passing outside4 ,dr4 ,stoney1 in his paper on ,natural ,science and ,ontology1 frames a working hypothesis1 which leads up to ,keely's theory1 that the laws of the universe are the laws of thought4 ,this is a very different thing1 says ,dr4 ,stoney1 from saying that they are the laws of human thought4 ,the laws of human thought bear to them the same small proportion which the laws of the action of the wheels of a watch upon one another bear to the entire science of dynamics4444 ,natural science is thus1 as it were1 the study of an ever-changing shadow cast in a special and very indirect way by the mighty march of actual events4 ,the history of philosophy1 writes ,ernest ,renan1 should be the history of the thoughts of mankind4 ,hence we must look upon philology1 or the study of ancient literatures1 as a science having a distinct object1 viz41 the knowledge of the human intellect4 ,the philologist and the chemist1 because of the results of the researches of the one1 and of the nature of the researches of the other1 are the students who are best able to comprehend the discoveries of ,keely4 ,it is the characteristic and the pride of modern science to attain its most lofty results only through the most scrupulous methods of experiment1 and to arrive at the knowledge of the highest laws of nature1 its hands resting on its apparatus4 ,if the highest truths can1 as it were1 emanate from the alembic and the crucible1 why should they not equally be the result of the study of the remains of the past1 covered with the dust of ages8 ,shall the philologist who toils on words and syllables be less honoured than the student of chemistry labouring in his laboratory8 ,it is impossible to guess beforehand what may result from philological researches1 any more than one can know1 in digging a mine1 the wealth it may contain4 ,we may be on our way to the discovery of a new world4 ,science always presents itself to man as an unknown country4 ,the most important discoveries have been brought about in a roundabout way4 ,very few problems have been deliberately grappled with at the outset1 'taken at the core4' ,there is nothing more difficult to foretell than the importance with which posterity will invest this or that order of facts2 the researches that will be abandoned1 the researches that will be continued4 ,in looking for one thing one may stumble upon another2 in the pursuit of a mere vision1 one may hit upon a magnificent reality4 ,when a result has been attained1 it is difficult to realize the trouble its attainment has cost1 says ,ernest ,renan in ,the ,future of ,science4 ,of this nature have been the researches of the present distinguished ,professor of ,chemistry in the ,royal ,institution2 leading him into a discovery1 the great importance of which the future alone can unfold4 ,professor ,dewar's brilliant success in producing liquid oxygen will be remembered by all who had the privilege of witnessing it last year1 on the occasion of the celebration of ,faraday's ,centenary4 ,its production is attended with the greatest difficulties2 so great that ,professor ,dewar even felt doubts as to his being successful in his attempt at that time1 which made his complete success all the more gratifying to him4 ,when produced1 it is difficult to hold and difficult to manipulate2 but nothing daunted by these difficulties1 ,professor ,dewar continued his researches1 subjecting it to tests which no mind less penetrating than his own would ever have thought of1 with the result that1 most unexpectedly to himself1 he has hit upon a magnificent reality4 ,the ordeal to which1 with consummate skill1 he subjected this unstable fluid1 disclosed its marvellous affinity for the magnet2 and iron is now no longer able to claim the distinction which it has hitherto enjoyed1 of monopolizing the affections of the magnet4 ,sir ,robert ,ball1 ,,ll4,d41 ,f4,r4,s41 in commenting upon this important and most interesting addition to our knowledge of the properties of oxygen1 says3--,seeing that water1 which is so largely composed of oxygen1 is not attracted by a magnet1 it might certainly have seemed unlikely that a liquid which was nothing but pure oxygen should be affected to any noteworthy degree4 ,i suspect1 however1 that ,professor ,dewar must have had some sagacious reason for anticipating that the magnet would treat liquid oxygen with much more attention than it bestowed on water4 ,at all events1 whether he expected it or not1 the result as described was of the most extraordinary character4 ,the liquid oxygen was vehemently attracted by the great magnet2 it seems to have leaped from the vessel1 to have clung round the poles1 and continued to adhere to them until it had all evaporated and resumed the form of gas4 ,the appreciation of this discovery will be shared not alone by chemists1 but by all who are interested in the great truths of nature4 ,when ,mr4 ,keely fell upon his discovery of an unknown force1 he had not the faintest conception of the infinite extent1 nor of the nature1 of the territory he had invaded4 ,step by step he has been led on through years of patient and persistent research1 yet even now feeling that he has but lifted one corner of the veil of the goddess of nature1 and that a lifetime is too short to do more than this4 ,the physicists whom ,keely1 in the earlier years of his discovery1 invited to confer with him as to the origin of the force which was generated by the disintegration of water1 preferred rather to pronounce him an impostor1 after witnessing his demonstrations1 than to admit that such results should have escaped the penetration of their all-powerful methods4 ,it indicates1 says ,dr4 ,watson1 a mistaken apprehension of the basis of our own so highly valued system of inquiry1 that we should arrogate to it absolute exclusiveness1 and deride1 as though they were searchers after proved impossibilities1 all those who choose to make the trial whether truth may be sought by any method besides our own4 ,history repeats itself1 but on new planes4 ,it is not those who are mighty in their own eyes whom ,providence chooses as instruments to reveal new truths to the world when the needs of humanity require a new order of things4 ,the evolution of the human race is slow but sure4 ,if in one century some backward steps are taken1 in the next with giant strides all is regained that seemed to have been lost4 ,each age answers the need of its own time4 ,the condition of mankind1 during the last quarter of the fifteenth century1 bore some curious analogies to its state at present1 writes ,julian ,hawthorne1 under the heading1 ,the ,new ,columbus4 ,a certain stage or epoch of human life seemed to have run its course and come to a stop4 ,the impulses which had started it were exhausted4 ,once more1 it seems1 we have reached the limits of a dispensation1 and are halted by a blank wall4 ,there is no visible way over it1 nor around it4 ,we cannot stand still2 still less can we turn back4 ,what is to happen8 ,what happens when an irresistible force encounters an impenetrable barrier8 ,that was the question asked in ,columbus' day1 and he found an answer to it4 ,are we to expect the appearance of a new ,columbus to answer it again8 ,what ,columbus can help us out of our dangers now8 ,the time has come when the spirit of ,columbus shall avouch itself1 vindicating the patient purpose of ,him who brings the flower from the seed4 ,great discoveries come when they are needed2 never too early nor too late4 ,when nothing else will serve the turn1 then1 and not till then1 the rock opens and the spring gushes forth4 ,who that has considered the philosophy of the infinitely great and of the infinitely minute can doubt the inexhaustibleness of nature8 ,and what is nature but the characteristic echo of the spirit of man8 ,a prophet has arisen1 during these latter days1 in ,philadelphia1 who is commonly regarded as a charlatan2 but men1 cognizant of the latest advances of science1 admit themselves unable to explain upon any known principles the effects he produces4 ,what we are to expect is an awakening of the soul2 the rediscovery and rehabilitation of the genuine and indestructible religious instinct4 ,such a religious revival will be something very different from what we have known under that name4 ,it will be a spontaneous and joyful realization by the soul of its vital relations with its ,creator4 ,nature will be recognized as a language whereby ,god converses with man4 ,the interpretation of this language1 based as it is upon an eternal and living symbolism1 containing infinite depths beyond depths of meaning1 will be a sufficient study and employment for mankind for ever4 ,science will become1 in truth1 the handmaid of religion1 in that it will be devoted to reporting the physical analogies of spiritual truths1 and following them out in their subtler details4 ,hitherto the progress of science has been slow1 and subject to constant error and revision4 ,but as soon as physical research begins to go hand in hand with moral or psychical research it will advance with a rapidity hitherto unimagined1 each assisting and classifying the other4 ,the attitude of men towards one another will undergo a corresponding change4 ,it is already become evident that selfishness is a colossal failure4444 ,recent social theorists propose a universal co-operation1 to save the waste of personal competition4 ,but competition is a wholesome and vital law2 it is only the direction of it that requires alteration4 ,when the cessation of working for one's livelihood takes place1 human energy and love of production will not cease with it1 but will persist and must find their channels4 ,but competition to outdo each in the service of all is free from collisions1 and its range is limitless4 ,not to support life1 but to make life more lovely1 will be the effort2 and not to make it more lovely for one's self alone but for one's neighbour4 ,nor is this all4 ,the love of the neighbour will be a true act of divine worship1 since it will then be acknowledged that mankind1 though multiplied to human sense1 is in essence one2 and that in this universal one1 which can have no self-consciousness1 ,god is incarnate4 ,the divine humanity is the only real and possible object of mortal adoration1 and no genuine sentiment of human brotherhood is conceivable apart from its recognition4 ,but1 with it1 the stature of our common manhood will grow toward the celestial4 ,obviously1 with thoughts and pursuits of this calibre to engage our attention1 we shall be very far from regretting those which harass and enslave us to-day4 ,leaving out of account the extension of psychical faculties1 which will enable the antipodes to commune together at will1 and even give us the means of communicating with the inhabitants of other planets1 and which will so simplify and deepen language that audible speech1 other than the musical sounds indicative of emotion1 will be regarded as a comic and clumsy archaism1--apart from all this1 the fathomless riches of wisdom to be gathered from the commonest daily objects and outwardly most trivial occurrences1 will put an end to all craving for merely physical change of place and excitement4 ,gradually the human race will become stationary1 each family occupying its own place1 and living in patriarchal simplicity1 though endowed with power and wisdom that we should now consider god-like4444 ,we have only attempted to indicate what regions await the genius of the new ,columbus2 nor does the conjecture seem too bold that perhaps they are not so distant from us in time as they appear to be in quality4 ,if we turn1 from this seemingly ,utopian forecast1 to the matter-of-fact utterances of ,ernest ,renan1 we will find that he anticipates nothing less as the destiny of humanity1 than the perfecting of it as a unity4 ,asserting that the nineteenth century is preparing the way for the enfranchisement of the mind1 he proceeds logically to show how this evolution is to be brought about1 strong in the faith that ,providence will not fail in its design to secure the ultimate happiness of the human race4 ,to quote1 at length1 from ,renan3--,it is the law of science1 as of every human undertaking1 to draw its plans on a large scale1 and with a great deal that is superfluous around them4 ,mankind finally assimilates only a small number of the elements of food4 ,but the portions that have been eliminated played their part in the act of nutrition4 ,so the countless generations that have appeared and disappeared like a dream1 have served to build the great ,babel of humanity which uprises toward the sky1 each layer of which means a people4 ,in ,god's vast bosom all that lived will live again1 and then it will be true to the very letter that not a glass of water1 not a word that has furthered the divine work of progress will be lost4 ,that is the law of humanity2 an enormous and lavish expenditure of the individual2 for ,god only sets ,himself the large1 general plan2 and each created being finds subsequently in himself the instincts which make his lot as mild as possible4 ,all help to accelerate the day when the knowledge of the world shall equal the world1 when the subject and the object having become identified1 ,god will be complete4 ,philosophy up till now has scarcely been anything but fancy1 a priori1 and science has only been an insignificant display of learning4 ,as for us1 we have shifted the field of the science of man4 ,we want to know what his life is1 and life means both the body and the soul2 not placed facing one another like clocks that tick in time1 not soldered together like two different metals1 but united into one two-fronted phenomenon which cannot be divided1 without destroying it4 ,it is time to proclaim the fact that one sole ,cause has wrought everything in the domain of intellect1 operating according to identical laws1 but among different surroundings4 ,the lofty serenity of science becomes possible only when it handles its imperturbable instrument with the inflexibility of the geometrician1 without anger and without pity4 ,true science1 the complete and felt science1 will be for the future1 if civilization is not once again arrested in its march by blind superstition and the invasion of barbarism1 in one form or another4 ,but it is contended that the inferiority of the philosophy of science consists in its being accessible to the small minority4 ,this is1 on the contrary1 its chief title to glory1 showing us that we should labour to hasten the advent of the blessed day in which all men will have their place in the sunshine of intelligence1 and will live in the true light of the children of ,god4 ,it is the property of hope to hope against hope1 and there is nothing which the past does not justify us in hoping from the future of humanity4 ,perfect happiness1 as ,i understand it1 is that all men should be perfect4 ,i cannot understand how the opulent man can fully enjoy his happiness while he is obliged to veil his face in presence of the misery of a portion of his fellow-creatures4 ,there can only be perfect happiness when all are equal1 but there will only be equality when all are perfect4 ,thus we see that it is not a question of being happy2 it is a question of being perfect2 a question of true religion1 the only thing which is serious and sacred4 ,inequality is legitimate whenever inequality is necessary for the good of humanity4 ,rights create themselves like other things4 ,the ,french ,revolution is not legitimate because it has taken place1 but it took place because it was legitimate2 the freeing of the negroes was neither achieved nor deserved by the negroes1 but by the progress in civilization of their masters4 ,right is the progress of humanity2 there is no right in opposition to this progress1 and1 vice vers1 progress legitimizes everything4 ,never1 since the origin of things1 has human intelligence set itself so terrible a problem as the one which now menaces our age4 ,upon the one hand1 it is necessary to preserve the conquests already secured for civilization2 while upon the other1 all must have their share in the blessings of this civilization4 ,it took centuries to conceive the possibility of a society without slavery4 ,the traveller who looks only at the horizon of the plain1 risks not seeing the precipice or the quagmire at his feet4 ,in the same way1 humanity when looking only to the distant object is tempted to make a jump for it1 without regard to the intermediate objects against which it may not improbably dash itself to pieces4 ,socialism is1 therefore1 right to the extent of discerning the problem1 but solves it badly2 or rather socialism is not yet possible of solution4 ,reforms never triumph directly2 they triumph by compelling their adversaries to partially adopt them in order to overcome them4 ,it might be said of reforms as of the crusades3 ',not one succeeded3 all succeeded4' ,as one sees the tide bringing the ever-collapsing waves upon the shore1 the feeling aroused is one of powerlessness4 ,the wave arrived so proudly1 and yet it is dashed to pieces against the sand1 and it expires in a feeble career against the shore which it seemed about to devour4 ,but1 upon reflection1 one finds that this process is not as idle as it seems2 for each wave1 as it dies away1 has its effect2 and all the waves combined make the rising tide against which heaven and hell would be powerless4 ,humanity1 when it is fatigued1 is willing to pause2 but to pause is not to rest4 ,the calm is but an armistice and a breathing space4 ,it is impossible for society to find calm in a state when it is suffering from an open wound such as that of to-day4 ,the age is oppressed by this inevitable and seemingly insoluble problem4 ,we barricade ourselves in one party1 in order not to see the reasons of the other side4 ,the conservatives are wrong1 for the state of things which they uphold1 and which they do right to uphold1 is intolerable4 ,the revolutionists are wrong2 for it is absurd to destroy when you have nothing to put in place of what you destroy4 ,at these epochs1 doubt and indecision are the truth2 the man who is not in doubt is either a simpleton or a charlatan4 ,revolutions must be made for well-ascertained principles1 and not for tendencies which have not yet been formulated in a practical manner4 ,they are the upheavals of the everlasting ,enceladus turning over when ,etna weighs too heavily upon him4 ,it is horrible that one man should be sacrificed to the enjoyment of another4 ,if it were merely a question of self-indulgence1 it would be better that all should have ,spartan fare1 than that some should have luxuries and others go hungry2 but1 as long as material ease is to a certain extent the indispensable condition of intellectual perfection1 the sacrifice is not effected for the enjoyment of another individual1 of the luxuries of life1 but it is made upon behalf of society as a whole4 ,a society is entitled to what is necessary for its existence1 however great may be the apparent injustice resulting for the individual4 ,it is the idea of the ancient sacrifice--the man for the nation4 ,if the object of life were but self-indulgence1 it would not be unreasonable that each one should claim his share1 and from this point of view any enjoyment which one might procure at the expense of others would be in reality an injustice and a robbery3 but the object of life1 the aim of society1 should be the greatest possible perfecting of all4 ,the ,state is neither an institution of police1 as ,smith would have it1 nor a charity bureau and a hospital as the ,socialists would have it4 ,it is a machine for making progress4 ,in the state of things which ,i should like to see1 manual labour would be the recreation of mental labour4 ,the immense majority of humanity is still at school3 to let them out too soon would be to encourage them in idleness4 ,necessity1 says ,herder1 is the weight of the clock which causes all the wheels to turn4 ,without the idea of progress1 all the ideas of humanity are incomprehensible4 ,we must keep our machines in order1 if we would bring down paradise upon earth2 and paradise will be here below when all have their share in light1 perfection1 beauty1 and therefore in happiness4 ,it matters little whether the law grants or refuses liberty to new ideas1 for they make their way all the same2 they come into existence without the law1 and they are all the better for this than if they had grown in full legality4 ,when a river which has overflown its banks pours onward1 you may erect dykes to arrest its progress1 but the flood continues to rise2 you may work with eager energy and employ skilful labourers to make good all the fissures1 but the flood will continue to rise until the torrent has surmounted the obstacle1 or until1 by making a circuit of the dyke1 it comes back by some other way to inundate the land which you have attempted to protect from it4 ,these are the advanced views of ,ernest ,renan1 who still sees nothing before us but a fresh cataclysm1 a general upheaval and chaos1 terrible disturbances when human intelligence will be checkmated1 thrown off the rails so to speak1 by events as yet unparalleled4 ,we have not yet suffered sufficiently1 he says1 to see the kingdom of heaven4 ,when a few millions of men have died of hunger1 when thousands have devoured one another1 when the brains of the others1 carried off their balance by these darksome scenes1 have plunged into extravagancies of one kind and another1 then life will begin anew4 ,suffering has been for man the mistress and the revealer of great things4 ,order is an end1 not a beginning2 but out of respect for the rights of bears and lions are we to open the bars of a menagerie8 ,are these beasts to be let loose upon men8 ,no1 for humanity and civilization must be saved at any cost4 ,but these problems1 which make up the capital question of the nineteenth century1 are1 in a speculative sense1 insoluble2 they will be solved by brute force1 says ,renan4 ,the crowd behind is ever pressing forward2 those in the foremost ranks are toppled over into the yawning gulf1 and when their bodies have filled up the abyss1 the last comers pass over on the level4 ,but let us suppose that what pseudo-science has wrested from us1 true science is ready to restore2 ready to offer all that ,renan himself tells us is necessary to open the way for the elevation of the people1 by giving all men a share in the delights of education2 thus widening the basis of the brotherhood of humanity1 and making room for all at the banqueting-table of knowledge1 enabling men to be perfect in their measure1 for absolute equality is as impossible in humanity as it would be in the animal reign4 ,each part is perfect in the hierarchy of the parts when it is all that it can be1 and does well all that it ought to do4 ,let us suppose that true science offers confirmation of all that revelation has taught of the attributes of the ,creator of all things1 reiterating the promise of a time when this knowledge shall be spread over the face of the whole earth and made known to all men4 ,let us imagine that1 in addition to the opening of these floodgates of knowledge1 the time is drawing near when machinery1 unknown now1 will be employed to help the workman in his task1 and abridge his hours of labour1 leaving leisure for the cultivation of his mind4 ,aristotle has told us what would be the result1 if every instrument could work of its own accord1 if the spindles worked of themselves1 if the bow played the violin without being held1 the contractors could do without workmen and the masters without slaves4 ,man would so master nature that material requirements would no longer be the supreme motive1 and human activity would be directed towards the things of the mind4 ,in such a state of existence men of intelligence would conquer the infinite4 ,we are living in a period of wondrous revelations of the power of ,god1 and the crowning discovery of this epoch promises the fulfilment of ,scripture prophecy in a dispensation of harmony and peace1 that will restore to mankind that measure of faith in ,god and immortality1 which can alone give strength to endure the evil days without feeling the weight of them that lie between the present time and the realization of our hopes for the perfection of humanity4 ,with the knowledge that lies in this new revelation of the power of the ,all-,mighty1 no hopes seem chimerical or ,utopian4 ,we shall all be as gods1 when the fulness of the love of ,god and the power of ,god is made known to1 and understood by1 all men4 ,tossing as we are in a seething whirlpool of scepticism1 threatened as are the nations with dangers on all sides1 if we were bereft of our ,god1 as the leading lights of science would have us believe1 there would be no hope for humanity4 ,but though the anchor of ancient faiths has been swept away by materialism1 the sheet-anchor of faith by science has been let down from heaven1 as it were in our hour of peril1 for the saving of the peoples3 teaching as often before that the world lies in the bosom of ,god1 like a child in its mother's arms1 who with watchful solicitude ministers to its wants as they arise4 ,religion as revealed to us by our ,holy ,master1 ,jesus ,christ1 is to know and to love the truth of things4 ,when this religion is understood and practised1 then1 and not before1 will the earth be full of the knowledge that it is ,god who is1 and that all the rest only appears to be4 ,if anarchy and disorder would but wait for this time to arrive1 no devastating cataclysms1 no destroying whirlwinds1 will come as forerunners to prepare the way1 as in the past1 for progress4 ,the light now dawning will usher in the new order of things1 and we may expect that an era of material prosperity will soon set in1 such as the world has never dreamed of2 arresting the outbreak of barbarism which seems near at hand4 ,there are some who contend that this revelation of an unknown force will1 in the hands of anarchists1 put back the progress of civilization and enlightenment for centuries2 there are others who proclaim that it will take the bread from the mouths of the hungry and swell the sums amassed by capitalists4 ,but history shows that discovery heralds progress1 and walks with it hand in hand4 ,with the costless and unlimited power which will be made available1 in every direction where power is required1 all works of improvement will be carried out on a far grander scale than has ever been anticipated4 ,the great polar stream1 with its exhaustless supply of energy1 places at our disposal a force as harmless as the current that draws its keeper to the magnet4 ,we have but to hook our machinery on to the machinery of nature1 and we have a safe and harmless propelling and controlling force1 the conditions of which when once set up remain for ever1 perpetual molecular action the result4 ,another step made toward the conquering of the material world which must precede the advent of the reign of the spirit4 ,schlegel foresaw that the only hope for a brotherhood of humanity lay in the thorough religious regeneration of the ,state and of science1 and that through these combined powers the underlying purpose of ,eternal ,mind is to be made known1 covering the earth with the knowledge of ,god as the waters cover the beds of the seas1 obtaining a complete triumph for ,christianity4 ,it would fill with despair the hearts of those who are working to bring about this end 7so slow1 so retrograde at times does the evolution seem to be7 did they not know that they have an ,invincible ,power working with them4 ,history has again repeated itself1 and truth has once more had its birth in a stable4 ,a star has arisen in the ,west which heralds to all races what the ,star of ,bethlehem heralded in ,judea1 viz4 the coming of the time when the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the ,lord4 ,there are both ,magi and shepherds now1 as of old1 who have watched for the rising of this star1 and who were the first to behold the gold and crimson light of the approaching dawn2 in which ,faith1 which modern science has crucified and laid away in its sepulchre1 will have its resurrection and dwell on earth for evermore--the tabernacle of ,god with men4 ,,the ,,dawn4 ,dante called his lifetime1 ,the time of my debt4 ,i4 ,have ,i not paid my debt1 ,o ,god1 ,what have ,i left to give8 ,yet blest my life in rendering all ,to help the nations live ,in harmony1 in peace1 in love1 ,as nations all will be1 ,when knowledge true shall cover earth ,as waters cover sea4 ,,ii4 ,nailed to the cross are all my hopes-- ,thou hast not spared me aught3 ,but raised thereby above the world ,its treasures count as naught3 ,empty its titles and its show1 ,its honours and its fame2 ,better the love of ,god to know ,than riches1 rank1 or name4 ,,iii4 ,two avenues there are1 'tis said1 ,from paltry passions vile1 ,from all calamities of earth1 ,from artifice and wile4 ,science and ,art their votaries lead ,from quicksands and from shoal2 ,their guiding torches held aloft ,will light us to our goal4 ,,iv4 ,when ended this--my time of debt-- ',tis only ,thou canst know2 ,but when the longed-for quittance comes ,i stay not here below4 ,till then give me the torch of ,art ,to light my pathway drear1 ,let ,science lift my thoughts to ,thee1 ,my lonely hours to cheer4 ,v4 ,and when my life-long debt is paid-- ,my soul from body free-- ,no bondage can enslave me more1 ,for ,i shall go to ,thee4 ,hasten the hour when summons comes1 ,to take me to my home2 ,here have ,i lived an exile's life1 ,an exile forced to roam4 ,,vi4 ,the face of love was turned from me ,when most ,i felt its need1 ,and in the wilds my feet were set ,to plough and sow the seed4 ,ashes and tears to me were given2 ,i sat not by the way1 ,with folded hands to make lament1 ,but laboured day by day4 ,,vii4 ,thou hast not dealt one useless blow1 ,what time ,i worked in field3 ,each tear of blood1 each hour of toil1 ,increased the harvest yield2 ,and now the furrows all are ploughed1 ,if ,i have paid my debt1 ,by waters still1 in paths of peace1 ,thou wilt my footsteps set4 ,,viii4 ons may pass before my hopes ,for earth are all fulfilled2 ,but let the dawn approach1 ,i pray1 ,before my lips are stilled6 ,and let true knowledge cover earth ,as waters cover sea-- ,knowledge of truth1 knowledge of love1 ,knowledge1 dear ,god1 of ,thee6 ,,ix4 ,i wait the music of the spheres1 ,the rhythmic pulse of earth1 ,which1 when ,death's angelus doth ring1 ,announce immortal birth3 ,in that blest home beyond the veil ,no discord rends the air ,the law of harmony prevails ,and love reigns everywhere4 ,,conclusion4 ,,keely',s ,,physical ,,philosophy4 ,mr4 ,keely begins with sounds whose vibrations can be known and registered4 ,i presume that the laws of ratio1 position1 duality1 and continuity1 all the laws which go to mould the plastic air by elastic bodies into the sweetness of music1 will also be found ruling and determining all in the high silence of interior vibrations1 which hold together or shake asunder the combinations that we call atoms and ultimate elements4--,the ,science of ,music4 ,d4 ,c4 ,ramsay4 ,edited by the ,rev4 ,john ,andrew4 ,marcus ,ward ,co4 ,what ,keely has discovered in physics1 ,i am in some measure credited with discovering in metaphysics3 this is nothing strange1 according to this philosophy1 which shows that many people may divine the same original truth at the same time by means of the etheric element which connects the ,deity1 the source of all truth1 with all ,his creatures4--,preface to ,vera ,vita2 or1 the ,philosophy of ,sympathy4 ,david ,sinclair4 ,author of ,a ,new ,creed4 ,digby1 ,long ,co41 ,london4 ,abstract of ,keely's ,physical ,philosophy in its main features up to the point of practical application2 by ,professor ,daniel ,g4 ,brinton1 of the ,pennsylvania ,university2 subject to modifications and additions when ,keely has made public his system4 ,the fundamental conception of the ,universe is force manifesting itself in rhythmical relations4 ,this definition is exhaustive1 including both thought and extension1 matter and mind4 ,the law for the one is the law for the other4 ,the distinction between them is simply relative1 i4e4 quantitative1 not qualitative4 ,the rhythmic relations in which force acts are everywhere1 under all conditions1 and at all times1 the same4 ,they are found experimentally to be universally expressible by the mathematical relations of thirds4 ,these threefold relations may be expressed with regard to their results as1-- ,i4 ,assimilative4 ,,ii4 ,individualizing4 ,,iii4 ,dominant or ,resultant4 ,from these three actions are derived the three fundamental ,,laws ,,of ,,being4 ,i4 ,law of ,assimilation3 every individualized object assimilates itself to all other objects4 ,,ii4 ,law of ,individualization3 every such object tends to assimilate all other objects to itself4 ,,iii4 ,law of the ,dominant3 every such object is such by virtue of the higher or dominant force which controls these two tendencies4 ,applying these fundamental laws to an explanation of the universe1 as it is brought to human cognition1 all manifestations of force may be treated as modes of vibrations4 ,the essential differences give rise to three modes of vibration3-- ,i4 ,the ,radiating3 called also the ,dispersing1 the ,propulsive1 the ,positive1 and the ,enharmonic4 ,,ii4 ,the ,focalizing3 called also the ,negative1 the ,negative ,attractive1 the ,polarizing1 and the ,harmonic4 ,,iii4 ,the ,dominant3 called also the ,etheric1 or the ,celestial4 ,these1 it will be noted1 correspond to the three laws of being4 ,it is not to be understood that any one of these three modes of vibration can exist independently4 ,each by itself is called a current1 and all three must be present in every stream or flow of force4 ,the relations of the currents in every flow are expressible in thirds1 and it is experimentally demonstrable that the relation of the three are in the order named3 as #cc #a_/c 3 #ff #b_/c 3 #ajj4 ,the evolution of what is called matter from the different modes of vibration is through the action of the second law1 that of focalization1 or negative attraction1 or negative affinity4 ,where the vibrations under this mode meet1 and are maintained in a state of mutual affinity or equilibrium1 there is established what is called a neutral centre1 or1 as otherwise expressed1 a centre of sympathetic coincidence4 ,the terms neutral attraction1 neutral affinity1 negative attraction1 or polar negative attraction1 are employed to express the property of a mode of vibration to direct its components towards such centre4 ,as no current or flow of force can be composed of one mode of vibration only1 but must always be composed of three modes uniting in varying thirds1 we have #a #b #c #f as the total possible forms of sympathetic coincidence1 or1 to speak in ordinary terms1 there can be six2 and six only1 possible forms of individualized being4 ,these are what ,keely calls the six orders of atomic subdivision1 or orders of vibratory motion1 and he names them as follows3 ,i4 ,molecular4 ,,ii4 ,inter-molecular4 ,,iii4 ,atomic4 ,,iv4 ,inter-atomic4 ,v4 ,etheric4 ,,vi4 ,inter-etheric4 ,in this list the forms of matter are arranged in the mathematical sequence of the rapidity of the oscillations of their constituent members2 the proportion being proved by experiment to be as follows3 for the molecular orders3 #a 3 #c 3 #i 3 #bg 3 #ha 3 #bdc4 ,this arithmetical progression changes in the atomic orders to a geometrical progression as follows3 #c 3 #i 3 #ha 3 #fefa 3 #dcjdfgba1 etc4 ,this same method of progression is believed to hold in all the orders of vibrations above the molecular1 and soon passes into mathematical infinity4 ,actually1 however1 all matter of which we are capable of cognition through the medium of our senses is in one of three forms of aggregation3 ,i4 ,molecular4 ,,ii4 ,atomic4 ,,iii4 ,etheric4 in each of which the controlling mode of vibration is respectively1 ,i4 ,the ,enharmonic4 ,,ii4 ,the ,harmonic4 ,,iii4 ,the ,dominant4 ,but it must be understood that each of these modes is a positive and real constituent of every atom and molecule4 ,it will be seen that as every form of material aggregation is to be considered as a neutral centre of attraction1 where the vibratory force of all three orders are held in sympathetic coincidence1 that is1 in balanced activity or harmonized motion1 and not by any means cancelled or mutually destroyed1 there is no diminution of force1 but only temporary suspension of its radiating or propulsive activity or expression4 ,this is the foundation of ,keely's doctrine of latent force1 and of the indefinite power which can be obtained by breaking up the harmonious balance or equation of forces of every mode1 which exists in every neutral centre1 that is to say in every mass of matter4 ,insomuch as every mass of matter consists thus1 in fact1 of vibrations in harmonic equilibrium1 related by simple proportions of thirds1 it follows that every mass of every description stands in harmonic relation to every other mass4 ,this is1 in part1 what is meant by the sympathy of all forms of matter and of motion2 and it is through the study of the methods of increasing or diminishing this sympathy that we reach practical results in this field of research4 ,at present this is best accomplished by resonance2 that is1 through the harmonic vibrations created by musical instruments1 bringing out the acoustic world as the microscope reveals the hidden visual world4 ,every visible or tangible mass of matter must be regarded as an aggregation of molecules2 the molecules being the true centres of the equated forces of neutralized attraction4 ,these molecules have been experimentally proved by ,keely to be formed of all three modes of vibration2 the proof being that they respond to all three modes when subjected to the tests of compound concordant impulses4 ,when in that state of neutral aggregation which we know as matter1 each molecule is in perpetual oscillation1 the range of the oscillation being one-third of the molecule1 and its rapidity #bj1jjj oscillations in a second4 ,it is through the disturbance of this oscillatory equilibrium1 by means of resonant impulses1 that ,keely alters the relations of the vibratory impulses which constitute matter4 ,this he does by striking the same chord in three octaves1 representing the third1 sixth1 and ninth of the scale4 ,of these1 the sixth reduces the range of molecular vibrations or oscillations2 and1 by thus bringing nearer to each other the neutral centres1 increases solidification4 ,the ninth extends the range of molecular oscillation1 and thus tends to give greater tenuity to the mass4 ,it induces trajectile velocity from neutral centres1 or neutral radiation4 ,experiment shows that molecular dissociation does not take place until the molecule attains an oscillation approaching1 if not fully reaching two-thirds of its diameter4 ,this can be effected by means of the action of the enharmonic or radiating current applied to the mass1 after its molecules have once been disturbed by an introductory impulse2 that is1 by the musical note above mentioned4 ,the third represents the dominant1 and when brought under control of a harmonic resonant impulse induces a complete rearrangement of the modes of vibration and oscillation2 in other words1 will transform the mass either into its component initial forces1 or into some other form of matter4 ,it is the study of the dominant to which ,keely has devoted his recent researches4 ,he aims to control the power he evolves by altering the dominant or etheric mode of vibration in the triplicate flows of force4 ,as all molecules and masses are mere centres of harmonized vibrations1 temporarily held in suspension by simple laws identical with those of resonance1 it follows that these centres can be broken up or divided by certain orders of vibration impinging upon and disturbing them4 ,it is a familiar fact that a cord in vibration tends to produce a similar vibration in a cord placed near it4 ,this property belongs to all vibrations1 whether resonant or not1 and they exert it in proportion to the order to which they belong4 ,the distance in space to which this power extends1 or can be extended1 is what is called the sympathetic outreach of the current or flow4 ,in this manner we have sympathetic negative attraction1 and sympathetic positive propulsion1 with reference to the outreach of the third or dominant current of the stream1 which is allied to the order of etheric vibrations4 ,each molecule of a given mass of matter represents the same harmonic chord or note in its oscillatory motion4 ,the chord of the mass is1 therefore1 the chord of every molecule of the mass4 ,but as the condition of absolutely stable equilibrium is theoretical only1 and does not exist in nature1 the chord of the mass is constantly changing4 ,yet we must learn to control this chord of the mass by resonant induction1 if we would gain command of the molecular forces4 ,keely believes he has solved this problem1 by the invention of a mechanical device which brings the chords of all masses within the conditions of a few simple acoustic tests4 ,the range of molecular oscillation is affected differently in different substances when submitted to the same vibratory impulse1 and these ranges can be measured4 ,in the three metals1 silver1 gold1 and platina1 we obtain the proportions----#c 3 #f 3 #i 3--,as this is the primary relation of the modes of vibration1 a wire made of these three metals is peculiarly adapted to transmit concordant impulses2 and nodes made of these substances placed upon a wire1 transmitting resonant vibrations1 indicate1 by the different orders of vibration induced in them1 the rate of oscillations of the atomic constituents4 ,the phenomenon of rotation arises from the harmonic interaction of the dominant and enharmonic elements of the flow3 in other words1 the first and third1 the third and ninth1 etc42 those whose vibrations bear the proportions to each other #cc #a_/c 3 #ajj4 ,a practical example of rotation is a wheel in revolution on its axis4 ,this is force in its commercial or economic aspect4 ,to accomplish this result by molecular vibratory action1 we must gain control of the negative attractive or enharmonic current of the triple flow1 and the problem is then solved up to any limit of power4 ,,appendix ,i4 ,more than four centuries ,b4,c41 ,leucippus and his disciple ,democritus--who expounded the atomic theory of his master--introduced the doctrine of indivisible atoms1 possessing within themselves a principle of energy4 ,democritus1 it is said1 travelling in search of wisdom1 visited the ,gymnosophists of ,india 7who1 by leading ascetic lives1 thought they could effect a reunion of the spiritual nature of man1 with the divine essence of ,deity71 and in so doing incurred the risk of being deprived of the rites of sepulture by his waste of patrimony1 there being a law in ,abdera to that effect4 ,anaxagoras1 ,heraclitus1 ,empedocles and other philosophers1 had taught that matter was indefinitely divisible1 but ,leucippus and ,democritus were the first to assert that these particles or atoms were originally destitute of all qualities except form and energy2 and they are1 therefore1 called the originators of the atomic philosophy2 which is the basis of ,keely's system of sympathetic physics4 ,sympathetic physics teaches that light is an etheric evolution1 propagated by sympathetic conflict between celestial and terrestrial outflows3 solar tensions as against terrestrial condensation4 ,true luminosity cannot be induced in any other way4 ,the high order of triple vibration1 that induces 7progressively7 molecular and intermolecular separation1 shows luminous results which1 when thus mechanically produced1 are virtually on a small scale1 a facsimile of nature's operations4 ,all such experiments that ,i have made1 writes ,keely1 resulted in vortex motion invariably1 both sympathetically and otherwise4 ,vortex motion follows nature in all corpuscular action4 ,the undulatory theory1 regarding light1 ,i have not been able to reconcile myself to1 as anything but hypothetical4 ,the conditions which govern electro-magnetic radiation1 disprove the theory in many particulars4 ,the vortex action induced in space1 by the differential conflict between the low and high tenuous1 shows up results that harmonize with the conditions accompanying the dissociation of hydrogen and oxygen1 in disintegrating water3 viz41 vortex action of the highest order1 but peripheral only4 ,if it were not so1 the ether could not be held in suspension1 neither in the molecular nor atomic envelopes4 ,undulatory effects are produced by certain conditions of sound2 and by other conditions quite opposite effects4 ,in organ pipes1 of a certain calibre1 very sensitive waves occur at intervals2 as according to the character of the sound evolved2 but on a combination of resonators composed of brass tubes of more than nine in number1 a wave of sound1 induced by certain chords passing over them1 produces high vortex action of the air enclosed in them4 ,the vibration of tuning forks induces alternate conditions of the air that surrounds them1 if in open atmosphere2 but quite a different action presents itself when the forks are exercised in resonating tubes1 set to thirds of the mass chord they represent4 ,then high vortex action is the instant result4 ,vibrators cannot be set promiscuously in tubes1 and get such results1 any more than a musician can render a musical composition on the violin before tuning it4 ,the conditions under which light is evolved negatize whatever is associated with undulation1 as this word is understood by physicists4 ,aqueous undulations there are1 but not etheric undulations4 ,the mighty forces latent in corpuscular matter1 by which we are surrounded1 are all held in oscillating vortex action by the ,infinite ,designer of workings hidden from us1 until the time is ripe for their disclosure4 ,this latent1 registered power interchanges sympathetically with the celestial radiating streams1 whereby light1 heat1 electricity1 magnetism and galvanic action are propagated in their different orders1 vitalizing all nature with their life-giving principles4 ,when this great scientific and religious truth has been made known1 and established by demonstration1 all controversy as to the source of energy will be for ever silenced4 ,if ,i am the chosen instrument to develop this knowledge1 and to make known the conditions which surround this pure truth1 it is only that ,i may hand the key to those who will use it to enter the doorway that opens into the inaudible1 and thus gain an insight into the now invisible region of the operation of ,nature's most powerful governing forces1 in the control1 over terrestrial mind by celestial matter4 ,,appendix ,,ii4 ,the flow of electricity1 as set down in ,keely's system1 is governed by triple conditions3 #ast4 the dominant or high vibratory2 #bnd4 the sub-dominant or low vibratory2 #crd4 the harmonic or undulatory2 in combination one flow4 ,keely writes3--,when electrical experts can construct a mechanical device whereby the low vibratory conditions of the sub-dominant can be assimilated to the harmonic undulatory1 by thirds1 they will be able to run their dynamos without any extraneous appliances4 ,an introductory impulse1 on a certain order of vibration1 being all that would be required to give the sub-dominant a concordant relation to the dominant2 which would more effectually operate the dynamo than any number of steam-engines2 allowing the harmonic stream to be the governor4 ,this concordance1 as towards the dominant1 would only excite its sympathetic action in a way that would divert the ruling conditions of the two1 without being submitted to the destructive effects of the dominant current4 ,i think many lives will be lost before such a position is attained4 ,tesla has reached out almost to the crest of the harmonic wave1 leaving all electrical explorers far behind him4 ,it is only when such a condition is reached that the true value of electrical lighting will be understood1 and extraneous power dispensed with2 but1 in my opinion1 the present conditions for transferring power will remain unaltered1 in the use of electricity1 for generations4 ,there is but one position to arrive at1 that will redeem the many failures of the past decade1 in attempts to find an economizing medium for commercial benefit in regard to power2 and that position will be attained when the polar sympathetic harness is completed1 which will give to the world the control of the polar forces4 ,in reply to the question1 ,what do you include in the polar forces8 ,keely answers1 ,magnetism1 electricity1 and gravital sympathy2 each stream composed of three currents1 or triune streams1 which make up the governing conditions of the controlling medium of the universe3 the infinite ninths that ,i am now endeavouring to graduate to a sympathetic mechanical combination1 will1 if ,i succeed1 close my researches in sympathetic physics1 and complete my system4 ,these sympathetic streams from celestial space1 percussing on the dense atmospheric environment of our earth1 by their infinite velocities1 wrest from their atomic confinement the latent energies which we call heat and light4 ,question4--,and where do these sympathetic conditions or streams of force have their origin8 ,answer4--',so ,god created man in ,his own image1 in the image of ,god created ,he him3 male and female created ,he them1' ,genesis i4 #bg4 ,all sympathetic conditions1 or streams of force1 are derived 7if we dare to make use of such a term in speaking of ,deity7 from the cerebral convolutions of the ,infinite3 from the centre of the vast realm of the compound luminous4 ,from the celestial intermediate1 the brain of ,deity1 proceed the sympathetic flows that vitalize the polar terrestrial forces4--,keely4 ,,appendix ,,iii4 ,some faint idea of the infinite patience which the nature of ,keely's work requires may be gained by a knowledge of his process of converting straight tubes into resonating rings4 ,the tubes1 in sections long enough to form a semicircle1 are passed between triple rollers1 which are set to give them a slight bend4 ,they are then fastened to a bed-plate1 and a steel ball1 the exact diameter of the interior of the tube1 is passed into it and forced through it4 ,it is then passed between the rollers again2 which are set so as to slightly increase the curvature1 and again the interior of the tube is corrected by the steel ball4 ,this process is intermittently continued until the semicircle is reached4 ,each process of bending and correcting requires over two hours4 ,eighty bends are sometimes necessary for the completion of the full circle4 ,when the two semicircles1 which form the circle1 are finished1 they are placed in a steel mould and kept under hydraulic pressure for two or three days1 to correct any lateral deflection which has taken place in bending them4 ,they are then taken out of the moulds and screwed rigidly to a face-plate1 and joined together by a solder of refined brass and silver4 ,next they are placed in a hot sand bath of sufficient volume to require seventy-two hours to cool down4 ,this corrects the differentiation in their molecular groupings4 ,they are then submitted to a vibratory flow from the sympathetic negative transmitter1 until their intonation1 by percussion1 represents a pure unmixed chord4 ,the indicator1 attached to the rings1 denotes when this condition is attained4 ,they are then centred on a steel shaft and rotated at the rate of #bjjj revolutions per minute1 surrounded by the triple circuit ring4 ,if the indicator1 on the circuit ring1 should vary five degrees on a subdivision of #hjjj1 the process for correcting has to be repeated until the variations are reduced to three2 which is near enough to be considered perfect1 inasmuch as the circular resonator will then hold the neutral focalization intact during the graduation of the full ninths1 or triple triplets1 for sympathetic association to polar negative attraction4 ,professor ,dewar's recent brilliant achievements1 in his line of experimental research1 not only have an important bearing upon one of the greatest problems of modern science1 but upon the science of the future1 as forecast by ,keely4 ,thermal radiation 7and its negative1 cold71 the field of ,professor ,dewar's researches1 in ,keely's system comes below the first atomic2 while celestial sympathetic radiation comes as the fountain head2 the compound inter-etheric1 from which all aggregated matter springs1 the governing force of all aggregations4 ,if there were no sympathetic radiation from the great celestial centre1 space would be void of suspended1 or floating1 earthy and gaseous matter2 consequently1 planetary worlds would never have had their birth and growth4 ,the suggestion of ,professor ,dewar1 that an increase in low temperatures might lead to the liquefying of hydrogen1 is an admission that hydrogen may be a compound2 for no simple can ever be condensed into a visible form4 ,keely's experimental researches have proved1 to his own satisfaction1 that all known gases are compounds1 inasmuch as1 when the intensity which accompanies sympathetic vibration1 in his process1 is brought to bear upon any gas1 it submits to dissociation4 ,the low temperatures with which ,professor ,dewar is dealing cause molecular motion to cease2 but the matter thus experimented upon is not dead matter after this cessation of motion4 ,nothing can rob matter of the latent energy which it contains2 water is not robbed of it by being frozen4 ,the oxygen and hydrogen still occupy their relative positions and conditions1 without depreciation of their vitality4 ,were water dead matter when frozen1 its molecular activity could not be restored by elevating its temperature4 ,matter can never be robbed of its soul by any conditions of intensity of heat nor of cold that could be brought to bear upon it4 ,when ,professor ,dewar uses the term dead1 in regard to matter1 it is purely in reference to the present orthodox theory of heat energy4 ,take the analogy of a tuning fork or a bell2 both are dead1 so far as sound is concerned1 if they are not in vibration2--they can be examined at rest or in motion1 but science has not yet been able to do the same thing with those general motions of a molecular nature called heat4 ,this is what ,professor ,dewar means by the term dead1 knowing well that the molecular activity can return alike to the fork or the molecule2 only the energy must be supplied from some other source4 ,such are the conditions with which orthodox science is dealing1 without acknowledging ,deity as the fountain head of all force4 ,not until ,professor ,dewar has witnessed the dissociation of hydrogen will he be able to judge of the truth of the claim1 that for nearly twenty years ,keely has been researching the nature of the product of this dissociation3 leading him to define and classify force and energy very much as ,grant ,allen has done in his heretical work1 on this subject1 published by ,longmans ,co41 in #ahhg4 ,james ,b4 ,alexander1 in his book on ,the ,dynamic ,theory1 #cb makes this distinction between ,force and ,energy3 ,energy is simply the motion of material bodies1 large or small4 ,force is the measure of energy1 its degree or quantity4444 ,the ether is the universal agent of ,energy1 and the medium in all motion and phenomena4 ,it may with propriety be called the ,soul of ,things4 ,,to ,,john ,,ernst ,,worrell ,,keely4 ,palmam qui meruit ferat4 ,prized secret of aerial space ,is thine6 ,not firmly caught ,without long years of patient toil-- ,of more than giant thought4 ,unfaltering thy steadfast faith1 ,in all its wise control1 ',mid insults1 taunts and sneers1 enough ,to crush the bravest soul4 ,such the ordeal on the paths ,of ,stephenson1 ,daguerre1 ,of ,fulton1 ,goodyear1 ,morse1 to which ,they gave no heed nor care4 ,like them still fearless thou hast toiled ,with heart and will intense1 ,until discovery now brings ,its grandest recompense4 ,displaced all powers known1 before ,this force of latest birth2 ,so great no mind can comprehend-- ,no being born of earth4 ,we hail thee1 revolutionist ,from every point of view2 ,for from the marvels thou hast wrought ,science must start anew4 ,longed-for-attainment now is grasped1 ,thy cherished hopes to bless2 ,and near at hand stands thy reward ,in laurel crowned success6 ,anonymous1 in ,cincinnati ,illustrated ,news4 ,,notes #a ,this electrician took the first box of stored electricity from ,paris to ,sir ,william ,thomson 7now ,lord ,kelvin7 in ,edinburgh2 and as early as in #ahhd he had convinced himself that ,keely had grounds for his claims as a discoverer of an unknown force in nature4 #b ,the stretching of a catgut chord over a resonator set to the chord of ,b flat is precisely the same in its resultant issue as the steel wire set over the same resonator4 #c ,in ,latin circulator means quack4 #d ,keely was obliged to return to his former method soon after1 for in overcoming one difficulty he found a more obstinate one to contend with4 #e ,a system of ,pendulums tuned to swing the various ratios of the musical scale1 form a ,silent ,harp of extraordinary interest4 ,this ,silent ,harp1 ,d4 ,c4 ,ramsay1 of ,glasgow1 has shown to his students of harmony for many a year4 ,a pen1 placed by means of a universal-jointed arrangement between any two pendulums of this ,silent ,harp1 so as to be moved by a blend of their various motions1 writes1 with all the precision of gravitation1 a portrait of the chord which two corresponding strings of a sounding harp would utter to the ear4 ,this spiral writing is a ,pendulograph2 exquisite forms such as no human hand could trace4 #f ,by his advocacy of ,keely's claims1 as a discoverer1 ,major ,ricarde-,seaver had reason to fear that he would lose his election to membership of the ,athenum ,club in ,london2 as he was notified by ,sir ,william ,thomson 7who had proposed him for membership in or about the year #ahgc7 that such would probably be the case4 ,the members however1 rallied in force and1 led by one of the ,major's oldest friends ,prince ,lucien ,buonaparte1 he was elected by an overwhelming majority4 #g ,the ,philadelphia ,inquirer of ,march #cj1 #ahij1 copied this article from ,anglo-,austria1 headed ,the ,keely ,motor3 some observations on the invention from a foreign publication4 #h ,from the ,evening ,telegraph1 ,philadelphia1 ,april #acth1 #ahij3 headed ,professor ,leidy's ,adherence to the ,new ,force4 #i ,from ,lippincott's ,magazine1 ,july1 #ahij4 ,edited by ,j4 ,m4 ,stoddart4 #aj ,quotation from one of ,keely's letters in #ahhe4 #aa ,the steam engines of the world now represent the work of #a1jjj1jjj1jjj men1 or more than double the working population of the earth1 whose total population is about #a1ejj1jjj1jjj inhabitants4 ,steam has accordingly trebled man's working power1 enabling him to economize his physical strength while attending to his intellectual development4 ,our race1 which seems to have reached its limit of physical development1 is ready to enter upon the foretold stage of psychical evolution4 #ab ,carried out in the taking of the forts one after another during our civil war1 which other generals had been unable to do4 #ac ,the paper which ,mr4 ,j4 ,f4 ,nisbet was commissioned to write1 in behalf of this discoverer's claims on the world for patience1 while pursuing his researches 7and paid in advance for writing71 illustrates the truth of this assertion4 ,mr4 ,nisbet's essay1 entitled ,the ,present ,aspect of the ,molecular ,theory1 or ,mr4 ,keely's ,relations to ,modern ,science1 closes with these lines3--,if science looks askance at ,mr4 ,keely's professions1 therefore1 it has its reasons for doing so4 ,these reasons1 as ,i have shown1 are not mere prejudices4 ,in more than one line of inquiry they have1 what seems to be1 a substantial basis of fact1 which must be explained away before ,mr4 ,keely's theory of 'etheric force' can commend itself to the mind of the impartial observer4 ,fortunately1 for the interests of science and of humanity1 the threatened prosecution of ,mr4 ,keely 7for obtaining money under false pretences7 was checkmated by ,provost ,pepper's action1 early in ,january1 before ,mr4 ,nisbet wrote to ,america that he could not commence his paper until he had received more information2 sending a series of questions to be answered by ,mr4 ,keely4 ,the superficial character of the essay will be seen1 when printed1 as well as that ,mr4 ,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 paper1 for an influential quarter1 which it was hoped would enlist public sympathy in ,keely's behalf4 ,but that power which is mightier than the sword1 in putting down error and injustice1 has hitherto turned its weapons against ,keely 7with some rare exceptions7 as ,mr4 ,nisbet did in his essay4--,c4,j4,m4 #ad ,this is effected by polarization and depolarization1 and the rotation of a non-magnetic needle by molecular differentiation3 both needles revolving about #abj times in a second4 #ae ,electricians are now admitting that1 in electric currents the energy does not flow through1 or along the wire1 itself2 but is actually transmitted by the ether vibrations outside of the wire1 just as in ,keely's experiments1 running his musical sphere with a fine thread of silk1 the energy is not transmitted through the sewing-silk1 which acts only as the medium that makes the transfer of energy in this way possible2 though not itself transferring it4 #af ,see ,jacob ,bhme1 his ,life and ,teaching2 or1 ,studies in ,theosophy1 by ,dr4 ,hans ,lassen ,martensen4 #ag ,the apparent comprehension of ,keely's discovery by ,mr4 ,nisbet1 was what led the compiler of this work to apply to him for help1 in making known the nature of the researches which ,keely is pursuing1 at the time that ,keely was threatened with imprisonment1 in #ahij1 for obtaining money under false pretences4 #ah ,mr4 ,keely explains the energy he is handling to be a condition of sympathetic vibration1 associated with the ,polar stream of our planet1 positively and negatively4 #ai ,mr4 ,b4 7not ,browne7 was afterwards discovered to be an inventing journalist1 who had been disappointed of gain1 and whose statements concerning ,dr4 ,leidy had to be corrected4 #bj ,professor ,dewar's visit to ,keely's workshop has been delayed until he goes to ,america as ,royal ,commissioner this year4 #ba ,one of ,keely's researching instruments4 #bb ,the universal physical law of molecular vibration is finely illustrated in the carbon pencils of the electric arc light used in some of the largest lighthouses4 ,the molecular stir set up in the armatures of the dynamo machines by rapid magnetization and demagnetization is transmitted to the carbon points of the lantern1 and reappears as a distinct musical tone4 #bc ,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 composer1 ,ernst1 who led the ,baden-,baden orchestra in his day2 and that ,keely's experiments in vibration had their origin in his knowledge of music1 and were commenced in his childhood4 #bd ,see ,untrodden ,ground in ,astronomy and ,geology4 #be ,there are some paradoxical conditions shown up in the disintegration of water which require further research to get at the solution4 ,in disintegrating1 say five drops of water in a steel bulb of two cubic inches volume of atmospheric air1 the force generated by the triple order of vibration1 when weighed on a lever1 shows ten tons pressure per square inch4 ,in using the same number of drops in the same bulb1 and associating it with a tube of two hundred cubic inches1 the result is the same in the force developed per square inch as is shown on the volume of the one of two cubic inches4 ,the solution of this problem seems to rest in the fact that the gaseous element thereby induced even in minute quantities1 must possess the property of exciting atmospheric air to that extent as to force it to give up1 to quite an extended degree1 the latent energy that is held in its corpuscular depths4 ,this introductory medium seems to act on the air in the same manner that a spark of fire acts on a magazine of gunpowder4 #bf ,the ether is the capsule to the molecules and atoms all the way up to the perfect stream of structural ether4 #bg ,a volume of pure ether equivalent to the atmospheric displacement caused by our ,earth1 could be compressed and absorbed in a volume of one cubic inch1 by the velocity and sympathetic power of the etheric triple flows1 focalizing toward the neutral centre1 at the birth of the molecule4 #bh ,this is what ,keely terms sympathetic outreach4 #bi ,a facetious journalist commenting on this paper reprints its last paragraphs as the only part that is perfectly lucid to the lay mind1 continuing3--,we trust ,keely will continue to bombard his corpuscles until he accomplishes it4 ,and when he does1 all other scientific men of this or any other age will sink by comparison into insignificance4 ,let no man say he cannot do it4 ,mr4 ,keely1 the world is still waiting for you4 #cj ,platina wires the thickness of a fine hair associated with each of the nine nodal beads1 and concentrated towards a general centre of localization1 attaching the other end of the wires to the focal centre1 will determine1 by the magnetic conduction1 the number of corpuscular oscillations per second induced by a thought1 either positive or negative1 in the central centres4 ,these are the only conditions--those of magnetic conduction--whereby the evolution of a thought can be computed in regard to its force under propagation1 as against the amount of latent energy set free to act as induced by such thought on the physical organism4 #ca ,it is always interesting to trace the germ of a scientific idea1 hypothesis1 or established truth4 ,a writer in ,la ,lumire ,electrique1 vol4 xlv41 has drawn attention to the fact that ,descartes gave a theory of magnetism1 in #afef1 which resembles the modern conception of lines of stress in the ether4 ,he considers that all magnets are traversed by a subtle fluid which flows out at the ,north ,pole1 and curving round1 in the ether1 re-enters at the ,south ,pole1 thus completing the circuit4 ,some of the greatest doctrines of science have recurred again and again1 like the motif of a piece of music1 until they finally assume a definite shape and become a working part of human progress2 as will be seen when ,keely's system is recognized4 #cb ,the ,dynamic ,theory of ,life and ,mind4 ,the ,housekeeper ,press1 ,minneapolis1 ,minn4