Being the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. BETTS explained by LOUISA S.
COOK.
“His attempt seems to have taken a similar direction to that of
George Boole in logic, with the difference that, whereas Boole’s
expression of the Laws of Thought is algebraic, Betts expresses
mind-growth geometrically; that is to say, his growth-formulæ
are expressed in numerical series, of which each can be pictured
to the eye in a corresponding curve. When the series are thus
represented, they are found to resemble the forms of leaves and
flowers.”--_Extract from “Symbolic Methods of Study,” by Mary Boole._
The _Pall Mall Gazette_, in a characteristic article entitled, “Very
Methodical Madness,” allows that “Like Rosicrucianism, esoteric
Buddhism, and other forms of the mystically incomprehensible, it
seems to exercise a magnetic influence upon many minds by no means as
foolish as its original inventor’s.”
“This work is the result of more than twenty years’ application to
the discovery of a method of representing human consciousness in its
various stages of development by means of geometrical figures--it is,
in fact, the application of mathematical symbology to metaphysics.
This idea will be new to many of our readers; indeed, so far as
we know, Mr. Betts is the only man who has tried to work out a
coherent system of this kind, though his work unfortunately remains
imperfect.”--_Theosophist_, June, 1887.
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