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KEELY AND HIS DISCOVERIES
AERIAL NAVIGATION
BY
Mrs. BLOOMFIELD MOORE
The universe is ONE. There is no supernatural: all is related, cause
and sequence. Nothing exists but substance and its modes of motion.
Spinoza.
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., Ltd.
PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD
1893
John Stuart Mill, in order to protect science, carried
empiricism to its extreme sceptical consequences, and thereby
cut the ground from under the feet of all science.--Professor
Otto Pfleiderer, D.D.
The word of our God shall stand for ever.--Isa. xl. 8.
Imagination is wholly taken captive by the stupendous
revelation of the God-force which modern conceptions of
the Cosmos furnish. Through the whole universe beats the
one life-force, that is God, controlling every molecule
in the petal of a daisy, in the meteoric ring of Saturn,
in the remotest nebula that outskirts space, as though
that molecule were the universe. In each molecule and atom
God lives and moves and has His being, thereby sustaining
theirs.... Prophet after prophet cries, and psalmist after
psalmist sings, that so indeed he has found it; that therein
is the divine sonship of man, therein the assurance of eternal
life.--Rev. R. A. Armstrong.
The living man with his interior consciousness of self and
individuality is on two planes of nature at once, as a ship
is in two media at once, half in the water and half in the
air. To manage your ship successfully you must take cognizance
of the laws governing each of those media. To deal successfully
with your human being you must understand his physiology
no doubt, but you must equally understand his psychology,
and something of the collateral phenomena of nature in those
regions or planes to which the phenomena of the psychic man
belong.--A. P. Sinnett.
The splendid generalizations of our physicists and our
naturalists, have had for me an enthralling and entrancing
interest. I find as I look out on the world, in the light of
all this new knowledge, a pressure of God upon consciousness
everywhere; and if this physical force which is God, moves
through, sustains, communes, with each smallest physical
atom of the whole, much more must that conscious energy
which is God, move through, sustain, commune with, these
conscious atoms, these several monads, which are you and I,
and our friend, and our brother far away. The even flow of
the divine force through every material atom, which is the
supreme revelation of physical science in our time, itself
leads irresistibly on to the suggestion of the constant flow
of spiritual energy in actual communion with every spiritual
monad that there is. It becomes but a question of opening the
eyes of the soul, unstopping the ears of the inward spirit,
to see and hear the God who in us also surely lives and moves
and has His being, thereby sustaining ours. As the physical
atom is physically touched and held and thrilled by God,
it is what we should expect that the conscious monad, no
less should be consciously touched and held and thrilled by
Him.--Rev. R. A. Armstrong.
"Euroclydon driveth us--where?
On quicksands and shoals of the sea,
On rocks that wait hungry to tear
And devour with tigerish glee.
"But lo! where we land tempest-tost
Is the work that has waited our hand;--
Not one step of that life shall be lost
Whose way an All-seeing hath planned."
We never know through what divine mysteries of compensation
the Great Father of the Universe may be carrying out His
sublime plans.--Miss Murdoch.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and Truth accomplishes
no victory without it.--Bulwer Lytton.
Science is bound by the everlasting law of honour to face
every problem fearlessly.--Lord Kelvin.
For my part, I too much value the pursuit of truth and the
discovery of any new fact in nature, to avoid inquiry because
it appears to clash with prevailing opinions.--Wm. Crookes,
F.R.S.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.--Lord
Beaconsfield.
The simple peasant who observes a fact
And from a fact deduces principles,
Adds social treasure to the public wealth.
Facts are the basis of Philosophy.
Philosophy is the harmony of facts
Seen in their right relations.--Lyrics of a Golden Age.
DEDICATED
TO
JAMES DEWAR, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.
FULLERIAN PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, R.I. JACKSON PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY
OF CAMBRIDGE,
IN ADMIRATION OF HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES
FOR SCIENCE,
AND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS
PROLONGED AND STEADFAST INTEREST
IN KEELY'S WORK OF EVOLUTION.
12, Great Stanhope Street, Mayfair, 16th May, 1893.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Preface.--By the Rev. John Andrew xi
Introduction xv
CHAPTER I. 1872-1882.
Introductory 1