All planetary masses Keely calls terrestrial, showing in his writings

that the beauty of the celestial concordant chords of sympathy

forming the harmonious connective link, in what may be denominated

"the music of the spheres," is seen in the alternate oscillating range

of motion between the planetary systems; for at a certain range of the

greater distance, harmony is established, and the attractive forces

are brought into action, under the command, "Thus far shalt thou go,

and no further." Then in the return towards the neutral centres, when

at the nearest point to each other, the opposite or propulsive force

is brought into play; and "thus near shalt thou come, and no nearer;"

advancing and receding under the celestial law of etheric compensation

and restoration, as originally established by the Great Creator.

7th. Keely has constructed instruments by which he is endeavouring

to determine the nature of the triune action of the polar terrestrial

stream, or envelope, as regards its vibratory philosophy. He is seeking

to demonstrate its sympathetic association with the celestial stream,

or luminiferous track,--the compound etheric field, from which all

planetary masses spring. He considers the electric stream to be one

of the triune sympathetic streams which help to build up, in their

order of triple concentration, the high vitality of the polar stream,

or, more correctly, the magnetic-electric terrestrial envelope,

without which all living organisms would cease to exist. He classes

the cohesive force of molecular masses as the dominant order of the

electric stream, the molecule owing its negative attractive quality

to the magnetic element.

In Keely's beautiful experiments in antagonizing the polar stream,

recently given before men of science, he has copied in his instruments

the conditions which Nature has established in all her terrestrial

ranges,--conditions necessary in order to equate a state of sympathetic

disturbance for the revitalization of what is continually being

displaced by negative dispersion. These mechanical conditions are

principally differential vibratory settings on molecular aggregations

of the metallic masses of gold, silver, and platinum.

8th. He has discovered that the range of molecular motion in all

quiescent masses is equal to one-third of their diameters, and that

all extended range is induced by sound-force, set at chords of the

thirds which are antagonistic to the combined chords of the mass of

the neutral centres that they represent, no two masses being alike,

and that at a certain increased range of molecular motion, induced by

the proper acoustic force, the molecules become repellent, and that

when the sympathetic centres are influenced by a vibration concordant

to the one that exists in themselves, the molecules become attractive;

that the repellent condition seems to take place at a distance of about

ten of the diameters of the molecules, this distance representing the

neutral line of their attractive force, or the dividing line between

the attractive and the repellent. Beyond this line, perfect triple

separation takes place; inside of it, perfect attractive association

is the result.

The force which Mr. Keely uses in running machinery is the sympathetic

attractive,--the force which, according to his theories, draws the

planets together; while in his system of aërial navigation, should

he live to perfect it, he will use a negation of this force,--the

same that regulates the motion of the planets in their recession

from each other. It is the sympathetic attractive force which keeps

the planets subservient to a certain range of motion, between their

oscillations. If this condition were broken up, the rotation of planets

would cease; if destroyed at a given point of recession, all planets

would become wanderers, like the comets; if destroyed at another given

point, assimilation would take place, as two bullets fired through

the air, meeting, would fuse into one mass. Nature has established her

sympathetic concordants from the birth of the neutral centres of the

planets, in a manner known only to the Infinite One. This is gravity.

"The music of the spheres" is a reality. "The finer the power

the greater the force." Thus, the inaudible atomic, etheric, and

inter-etheric sounds, which control and direct the harmony of the

movements of the celestial universe, are the most powerful of all

sounds. If our faculty of hearing were a hundred billions of times

intensified, we might be able to hear the streams of light as plainly

as we now hear the sighings of the wind.

Again, to answer the often-asked question, "What has Keely done?"

9th. He has broken joints of his fingers and thumbs, he has broken

his ribs, he has had his left side paralyzed for weeks, he has lost

the sight of one eye for months, in his hand-to-hand fight with the

genii that he has encountered, 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 engine. An illness of nine weeks followed his abandonment

of water in disintegrating; and he was obliged to return to its use,

to avoid the percussion that was induced by the rapid vibration of the

atmospheric air. To illustrate: if a bullet is fired at a man through

a vessel of water a foot thick, the bullet is flattened out without

injuring the man; while if nothing intervenes the man is killed.

The question naturally arises, "Are not the forces with which Keely

is dealing of too subtle a nature to be harnessed to do the daily

work of the world?" Even were it so, the fascination attendant upon

his researches would prevent him from abandoning them; 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 which, in the face of gigantic obstacles, of cruel obloquy, of

baffled endeavours, leads him to persevere to the end. He believes that

the successful result is as positive as are the continued revolutions

of our globe, under the great law which governs all Nature's highest,

grandest, and most sensitive operations. And when has Nature ever

revealed a force save to permit man to subjugate it for the progress

of our race?

Another question often heard is, "Why does not Keely make known his

discoveries?"

10th. He has written three treatises to explain his system, the titles

of which are as follows:--

I. Theoretical Exposé or Philosophical Analysis of Vibro-Molecular,

Vibro-Atomic, and Sympathetic Vibro-Etheric Forces, as applied to

induce Mechanical Rotation by Negative Sympathetic Attraction.

II. Explanatory Analysis of Vibro-Acoustic Mechanism in all its

Different Groupings or Combinations to induce Propulsion and Attraction

(sympathetically) by the Power of Sound-Force; as also the Different

Conditions of Intensity, both Positive and Negative, on the Progressive

Octaves to Ozonic Liberation and Luminosity.

III. The Determining Principle of Matter, or the Connective Link

between the Finite and the Infinite, progressively considered from the

Crude Molecular to the Compound Inter-Etheric; showing the Control of

Spirit over Matter in all the Variations of Mass-Chords and Molecular

Groupings, both Physical and Mechanical.

If these treatises were read from the first page to the last, by men

of science, they would not at present be any better understood than

were Gilbert's writings in his age, author of "De Magnete."

Newton was indebted to Gilbert for his discovery of the so-called law

of gravitation. Keely defines gravity as transmittive inter-etheric

force under immense etheric vibration, and electricity as a certain

form of atomic vibration. When Gilbert, court-physician to Queen

Elizabeth, announced his discovery of electricity, he was asked by

his compeers of what use it was. No one dreamed then of it as a motive

power. He replied, "Of what use is a baby? It may develop into a man

or a woman, and, although we cannot make any use of electricity now,

the world may in time find out uses for it." Just as little understood

would Keely's writings be now on sympathetic negative attraction as

were Gilbert's writings then on electricity and magnetism. Men found

no sense in the words "electric" and "electricity," although derived

from the Greek root for amber. The same fault is found with Keely

for coining new words which no one understands.

"Every branch of science, every doctrine of extensive application,

has had its alphabet, its rudiments, its grammar: at each fresh step in

the path of discovery the researcher has had to work out by experiment

the unknown laws which govern his discovery." 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 language. As has been said, 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 arithmetic. 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 experiments. The requirement of every demonstration is

that it shall give sufficient proof of the truth that it asserts. A

demonstration which does less than this cannot be relied upon, and no

demonstration ever made has done more. The success of a demonstration

is in proportion as the means applied are adequate or inadequate. As

different principles exist in various forms of matter, it is quite

impossible to demonstrate every truth by the same means or the same

principles. It is only the prejudice of ignorance which exacts that

every demonstration shall be given by a prescribed canon of science;

as if the science of the present were thoroughly conversant with

every principle that exists in nature. Yet physicists exact this,

though they must know its inadequacy.

Mr. 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 theories. Yet,

notwithstanding Professor Crooke's psychical researches and Professor

Rücker's experiments in molecular vibration, demonstrating that

molecules seem to have a "mental attribute, a sort of expression of

free will," physicists still look upon the human organism as little

more than a machine, taking small interest in experiments which evince

the dominion of spirit over matter. Keely's researches in this province

have shown him that it is neither the electric nor the magnetic flow,

but the etheric, which sends its current along our nerves; that the

electric and magnetic flows bear but an infinitely small ratio to the

etheric flow, both as to velocity and tenuity; that true coincidents

can exist between any mediums,--cartilage to steel, steel to wood,

wood to stone, and stone to cartilage; that the same influence,

sympathetic association, which governs all the solids holds the same

control over all liquids, and again from liquid to solid, embracing

the three kingdoms, animal, vegetable, and mineral; that the action of

mind over matter thoroughly substantiates the incontrovertible laws of

sympathetic etheric influence; that the only true medium which exists

in nature is the sympathetic flow emanating from the normal human

brain, governing correctly the graduating and setting-up of the true

sympathetic vibratory positions in machinery, necessary to commercial

success; that these flows come in on the order of the fifth and seventh

positions of atomic subdivision, compound inter-etheric sympathy a

resultant of this subdivision; 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 positions, and that the composition of metallic

and that of physical organisms are one and the same thing, although

the molecular arrangement of the physical may be entirely opposite

to the metallic on their aggregations; that the harmonious chords

induced by sympathetic positive vibration permeate the molecules in

each, notwithstanding, 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 transmission;

that the etheric, or will-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 matter, from air to solid hammered steel, the velocity

of the permeation being the same with the one as with the other;

that the tenuity of the etheric flow is so infinitely fine that a

magnifying glass, the power of which would enlarge the smallest grain

of sand to the size of the sun, brought to bear upon it would not

make its structure visible to us; and that, light traversing space

at the speed of two hundred thousand miles per second, a distance

requiring light a thousand centuries to reach would be traversed by

the etheric flow in an indefinite fragment of a second.

11th. 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 offers.

Genius has been defined as an extraordinary power of synthetic

creation. Another definition of the man of genius is, the man who

unceasingly cultivates and perfects such great natural aptitudes

and facilities as he has been endowed with at his birth. No man has

ever lived on this earth who, according to these qualifications,

so deserved to be known and acknowledged as a man of genius as John

Worrell Keely. History will determine whether he is a man of genius or

"a charlatan," as some scientists still persist in calling him. It is

easier, as has been said, to accuse a man of fraud than to account

for unknown phenomena. A system of doctrine can be legitimately

refuted only upon its own principles, viz., by disproving its facts

and invalidating the principles deduced from them. Abercrombie said

that the necessary caution which preserves us from credulity should

not be allowed to engender scepticism,--that both of these extremes

are equally unworthy of a mind which devotes itself with candour to

the discovery of truth.

"We must not decide that a thing is impossible," says Lebrun, "because

of the common belief that it cannot exist; for the opinion of man

cannot set limits to the operations of Nature, nor to the power of

the Almighty. 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 philosopher." Galileo said, after pronouncing

his abjuration, "E pur si muove" ("But it does move"). What signified

to him the opinion of men, when Nature confirmed his discovery? Of

what value were their prejudices or their wisdom in opposition to her

immutable laws? Kedzie, speculating upon the nature of force, writes,

"Molecules and masses act precisely as they are acted on; they are

governed by the iron instead of the golden rule. They do unto others as

others have done unto them. Whence comes this energy? Not from atoms,

but from the Creator, in the beginning."

The Duke of Argyll says, "We know nothing of the ultimate seat of

force. Science, in the modern doctrine of the conservation of energy

and the convertibility of forces, 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 force, arising from one

fountain-head of power."

12th. Keely's researches have taught him that this one fountain-head

is none other than the omnipotent and all-pervading Will-Force

of the Almighty, which creates, upholds, guides, and governs the

universe. "The whole world-process," says Von Hartmann, "in its

context is only a logical process; but in its existence it is a

continued act of will."

Lilly says, "This is what physical law means. Reason and will are

inseparably united in the universe as they are in idea. If we will

anything, it is for some reason. In contemplating the structure

of the universe, we cannot resist the conclusion that the whole is

founded upon a distinct idea." Keely holds to the harmony of this

"distinct idea" throughout creation, and he demonstrates by vibratory

machinery that all forces are indestructible, immaterial, homogeneous

entities, having their origin and unity in one great intelligent

personal will-force.

Were it not for this will-force eternally flowing into all created

forms, the entire universe would disappear. As the workman employs

his instrument to accomplish his designs, so Omnipotence may be said,

in all reverence, to regulate His systems of worlds through and by

the vibratory ether which He has created to serve His purpose. Well

did Hertz reason when he wrote, "Soon the question set by modern

physics will be, 'Are not all things due to conditions of ether?'" He

had never heard of the toiler on this side of the Atlantic, when,

after his own discovery, in 1888, that ether was imprisoned and

used in every electro-magnetic engine, without this fact having

been even so much as suspected by a single scientist, he wrote, in

the Revue Scientifique, "We have gained a greater height than ever,

and we possess a solid basis which will facilitate the ascent, in the

research of new truths. The road which is open to us is not too steep,

and the next resting-point does not appear inaccessible. Moreover,

the crowds of researchers are full of ardour. We must therefore welcome

with confidence all the efforts that are being made in this direction."

Keely has found no "resting-point" in his researches of a

lifetime; and, instead of being "welcomed with confidence" by his

fellow-researchers in science, he has suffered at their hands more

than will ever be known by his detractors. Keely's discoveries would

have died with him, through the calumnies of these same scientists,

as far as demonstration was concerned, had not a company been formed,

in the early days of his inventions, which for many years furnished

him with the necessary funds, expecting almost immediate financial

success. The sneers of men of science crying "Charlatan," the

ridicule of the public press, and the denunciations of the ignorant

have been mighty factors in debasing the value of the shares of the

company. The courage, faith, and contributing capacity of nearly

all the stockholders have given out; and it is fortunate that now

Mr. 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 research,--viz. "an honest

receptivity, and willingness to abandon all preconceived notions,

however cherished, if they be found to contradict the truth."

Keely may be said to have spent years of his valuable time in giving

exhibitions whereby to raise the funds needed for his scientific

researches. Again and again has he taken apart his various machines,

to show their interior construction to the sceptical; and what this

means, in the attendant delay, will be better understood when he has

made known how slight a thing, by the laws of sympathetic association,

may retard his progress for days, even for weeks.

Take, for example, his last experience with his preliminary commercial

engine, to which, before he had completed his graduation, he was

induced, in November 1889, to apply a brake, to show what resistance

the vibratory current could bear under powerful friction. A force

sufficient to stop a train of cars, it was estimated, did not interfere

with its running; but under additional strain a "thud" was heard,

and the shaft of the engine was twisted.

The engine should not have been submitted to such a test until

after the differentiation had been equated, and perfect control

in reversions established. And yet, so often has Keely made what

seemed to be disasters an advantage in the end, it is possible that

the interruption and delay may enable him to produce a perfect engine

sooner than he would have done on this model. The world will never know

how many mechanical difficulties Keely has conquered before attaining

his present degree of success, in which he thinks he has mastered all

that pertains to the principle of the force that he is dealing with,

so far as necessary for commercial purposes, the difficulties that he

still has to contend with being merely the minor ones of mechanical

detail. The fact that so much of Mr. Keely's success, in conducting

his experiments when giving exhibitions, depends upon the complete

perfection of his instruments, is one of the strongest arguments that

could be advanced in proof of the genuineness of his claims. Has any

one ever heard of a performer in legerdemain who, after assembling an

audience to witness his tricks, announced that something was wrong

with his conjuring apparatus and that he was unable to exhibit his

dexterity? Feats of legerdemain can be performed, night after night,

year in and year out, without any hitch on the part of the operator;

but all who are conversant with the failures attendant upon a certain

order of experiments, as for instance in the liquefying of oxygen gas,

will be able to appreciate the uncertainty which characterizes the

action of Mr. Keely's instruments at times.

It is only by progressive experimental research that knowledge of

the laws governing Nature's operations can be gained, and a system

evolved to perpetuate such knowledge. The hypothesis of to-day must

be discarded to-morrow, if further research proves its fallacy. Is

it not, then, another strong argument in favour of Keely's integrity

that, confessing ignorance of the laws that govern the force he has

discovered, he has plodded on through all these years, experimenting

upon its nature, with instruments of his own invention, which from

their delicate and imperfect construction are uncertain in their

operations, until he has so improved the defective machine as to make

it a stepping-stone, by which he ascends to perfection? Take the

imperfect comparison of a ladder: no workman can attain the summit

in one effort; he must mount step by step.

To quote from Keely's writings, "The mathematics of vibratory etheric

science, both pure and applied, require long and arduous research. It

seems to me that no man's life is long enough to cover more than the

introductory branch. The theory of elliptic functions, the calculus

of probabilities, are but pygmies in comparison to a science which

requires the utmost tension of the human mind to grasp. But let us wait

patiently for the light that will come, that is even now dawning." [10]

On the 28th of May, 1889, Mr. Keely's workshop was visited by

several men interested to see and judge for themselves of the

nature of his researches. Among them were Professor Leidy, of

the University of Pennsylvania, and James M. Willcox, author of

"Elemental Philosophy." After seeing the experiments in acoustics,

and the production, storage, and discharge of the ether, Mr. Willcox

remarked that no one who had witnessed all that they had seen in

the line of associative vibration, under the same advantages, could

assert any fraud on the part of Keely without convicting himself of

the rankest folly. These gentlemen met Mr. Keely with their minds open

to conviction, though with strong prejudices against the discovery

of any unknown force. They treated him as if he were all that he

is, keeping out of sight whatever doubts they may have had of the

genuineness of his claims as a discoverer; and, in the end, all who

were present expressed their appreciation of his courtesy in answering

the questions asked, and their admiration of what he has accomplished

on his unknown path. In doing this, they were simply doing justice

to him and to themselves,--to that self-respect which leads men to

respect the rights of others, and to do unto others as they would be

done by. Had they questioned Keely's integrity, or betrayed doubts of

his honesty of purpose, he would at once have assumed the defensive,

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 propounded, or of his experiments before

witnessing them. When Keely's system of "sympathetic vibration"

is made known ("sympathetic seeking" Mr. Willcox would call it),

it will be seen how sensitive Mr. Keely's instruments are to the

vibrations caused by street-noises, to vibrations of air from talking

in the operating room, to touch even, as well as why it is that,

although he is willing to take apart and explain the construction

of his instruments in the presence of investigators, he objects to

having them handled by others than himself, after they have been

"harmonized," or "sensitized," or "graduated."

Mr. Keely is his own worst enemy. When suspected of fraud he acts

as if he were a fraud; and in breaking up his vibratory microscope

and other instruments which he had been years in perfecting, at

the time he was committed to prison in 1888, he laid himself open

to the suspicion that his instruments are but devices with which he

cunningly deceives his patrons. Yet these same instruments he has,

since their reconstruction, dissected and explained to those who

approached him in the proper spirit. It is only when he has been

subjected to insulting suspicions by arrogant scientists that he

refuses to explain his theories, and to demonstrate their truth,

as far as it is in his power to do so. "Keely may be on the right

track, after all," remarked an English scientist, after Prof. Hertz

had made known his researches on the structure of ether; "for if we

have imprisoned the ether without knowing it, why may not Keely know

what he has got a hold of?"

Norman Lockyer, in his "Chemistry of the Sun," confirms Keely's

theories when he writes, "The law which connects radiation with

absorption and at once enables us to read the riddle set by the sun

and stars is, then, simply the law of 'sympathetic vibration.'"

"It is remarkable," says Horace W. Smith, "that in countries far

distant from each other, different men have fallen into the same tracks

of science, and have made similar and correspondent discoveries,

at the same period of time, without the least communication with

each other." So has it been in all periods of progress and in all

branches of science, from the discoveries of Euclid and Archimedes

down to those of Galileo and Descartes and Bacon, and, in later days,

of Gilbert and Newton and Leibnitz, then Franklin and Collison and

Von Kliest and Muschenbröck; and now Keely and Hertz and Depuy and

Rücker and Lockyer are examples. Never has a discovery leading to

a new system been begun and perfected by the same individual so far

as Keely is doing; but, as Morley has said, "the representative of

a larger age must excel in genius all predecessors."

The application of his discovery to the service of humanity is the

aim and end of Keely's efforts; his success means "vastly more than

the most sanguine to-day venture to predict," promising "a true

millennial introduction into the unseen universe, and the glorious

life that every man, Christian or sceptic, optimist or pessimist,

would gladly hope for and believe possible." (Thurston.)

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 nature, embracing cures of

brain and nerve disorders that are now classed with incurable diseases.

Only a partial answer has been given to the question, "What has Keely

done for science?" But enough has been said to convey some idea of

the subtle nature of the force he is dealing with, and of the cause

of the delays which have again and again disappointed the inventor,

as well as the too sanguine hopes of immediate commercial success

which have animated the officers and stockholders of "The Keely Motor

Company." Keely has no secret to wrest from him. Instead of "Keely's

Secret," it should be called "Nature's Secret;" for the problem has

still to be worked out, the solution of which will make it "Keely's

Secret;" and until this problem is fully solved to the inventor's

satisfaction for commercial application, Keely has no secret that he

is not willing to disclose, as far as it is in his power to do so.

CHAPTER XII.

1891.

VIBRATORY PHYSICS.--TRUE SCIENCE.

We seem to be approaching a theory as to the construction

of ether. Hertz has produced vibrations, vibrating more

than one hundred million times per second. He made use of

the principle of resonance. You all understand how, by a

succession of well-timed small impulses, a large vibration

may be set up.--Prof. Fitzgerald.

Dr. Schimmel, in his lecture on "The Unity of Nature's Forces,"

says:--"The Greek philosophers, Leucippus, Anaxagoras, Democritus,

and Aristotle, base their philosophies on the existence of an ether

and atoms." According to Spiller's system, "both ether and atoms are

material. The atoms are indivisible. Chemistry, being based on the

correctness of this statement, forces us to accept it." But we are

not forced to accept it if it is proved to be false.

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 system; and consequently the stage where he can demonstrate

whether theories, that have prevailed concerning the cause of physical

phenomena, are sound or without basis in fact. Until this stage was

reached it would have been as useless to make Mr. Keely's theories

known, as it would be to publish a treatise to prove that two and two

make five. Scientific men reject all theories in physics in which there

is not an equal proportion of science and mathematics, excluding all

questions of pure metaphysics. They are right; for, until the world

had undergone a state of preparation for another revelation of truth,

the man who demonstrated all that Keely is now prepared to demonstrate

would have been burned alive as a wizard. To use the words of Babcock,

one of Keely's staunchest adherents, in 1880:--"This discoverer has

entered a new world, and although an unexplored region of untold wealth

lies beyond, he is treading firmly its border, which daily widens

as with ever-increasing interest he pursues his explorations. He has

passed the dreary realm where scientists are groping. His researches

are made in the open field of elemental force, where gravity, inertia,

cohesion, momentum, are disturbed in their haunts and diverted to use;

where, from unity of origin, emanates infinite energy in diversified

forms," and, to this statement I would add--where he is able to

look from nature up to nature's God, understanding and explaining,

as no man before ever understood and explained, how simple is "the

mysterious way in which God works His wonders to perform."

Mr. Babcock continues:--"Human comprehension is inadequate to grasp the

possibilities of this discovery for power, for increased prosperity,

and for peace. It includes all that relates mechanically to travel,

manufacture, mining, engineering, and warfare." Up to within two

years, Keely, this discoverer of unknown laws of nature, has been left

partially to the mercy of men who were interested only in mechanical

"possibilities." In the autumn of 1888, he was led into a line of

research which made the mechanical question one of secondary interest;

and yet the present results are such as to prove that on this line

alone can he ever hope to attain commercial success. The course then

adopted has also been the means of placing his discoveries before

the world, endorsed in such a manner as to command attention to his

views and theories. It has been said that if extreme vicissitudes of

belief on the part of men of science are evidences of uncertainty,

it may be affirmed that of all kinds of knowledge none is more

uncertain than science. The only hope for science is more science,

says Drummond. Keely now bestows the only hope for science--"more

science." He accounts for the non-recognition by scientists of

his claims, in these words: "The system of arranging introductory

etheric impulses by compound chords set by differential harmonies,

is one that the world of science has never recognized, simply

because the struggles of physicists, combating with the solution of

the conditions governing the fourth order of matter, have been in a

direction thoroughly antagonistic, and opposite to a right one. It is

true that luminosity has been induced by chemical antagonism, and,

in my mind, this ought to have been a stepping-stone towards a more

perfect condition than was accepted by them; but independent of what

might be necessary to its analysis, 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 them."

In order to subdivide the atoms in the atomic triplet, the molecular

ether, liberated from the molecule, is absolutely necessary to effect

the rupture of the atoms; and so on, progressively, in each order of

ether, molecular, inter-molecular, atomic, inter-atomic, etheric,

inter-etheric, the ether liberated in each successive division is

essential to the next subdivision.

The keynote of Mr. Keely's researches is that the movements of elastic

elements are rhythmical, and before he had reached his present stage

in producing vibrations, on the principle of resonance, he has had

problems to solve which needed the full measure of inspiration or

apperception that he has received.

Hertz has produced vibrations about one metre long, vibrating more

than one hundred million times a second. Keely has produced, using

an atmospheric medium alone, 519,655,633 vibrations per second; but,

interposing pure hydrogen gas between soap films and using it as a

medium of acceleration, he asserts that on the enharmonic third a rate

of vibration may be induced which could not be set down in figures,

and could only be represented in sound colours. He has invented

instruments which demonstrate in many variations the colours of

sound, registering the number of necessary vibrations to produce each

variation. The transmissive sympathetic chord of B flat, third octave,

when passing into inaudibility, would induce billions of billions

of vibrations, represented by sound colour on a screen illuminated

from a solar ray. But this experiment is one of infinite difficulty,

from the almost utter impossibility of holding the hydrogen between

the two films long enough to conduct the experiment. Keely made over

1200 trials before succeeding once in inducing the intense blue field

necessary, covering a space of six weeks, four hours at a time daily;

and should he ever succeed in his present efforts to produce a film

that will stand, he anticipates being able to register the range of

motion in all metallic mediums. On this subject Keely writes:--The

highest range of vibration I ever induced was in the one experiment

that I made in liberating ozone by molecular percussion, which

induced luminosity, and registered a percussive molecular force of

110,000 lbs. per square inch, as registered on a lever constructed

for the purpose. The vibrations induced by this experiment reached

over 700,000,000 per second, unshipping the apparatus, thus making it

insecure for a repetition of the experiments. The decarbonized steel

compressors of said apparatus moved as if composed of putty. Volume

of sphere, 15 cubic inches; weight of surrounding metal, 316 lbs.

Recently some questions, propounded to Mr. Keely by a scientist,

elicited answers which the man of science admitted were clear and

definite, but no physicist could accept Keely's assertion that

incalculable amounts of latent force exist in the molecular spaces,

for the simple reason that science asserts that molecular aggregation

is attended with dissipation of energy instead of its absorption. The

questions asked were:--

I. "In disintegrating water, how many foot-pounds of energy have you

to expend in order to produce or induce the vibratory energy in your

acoustical apparatus?"

Answer.--"No foot-pounds at all. The force necessary to excite

disintegration when the instrument is sensitized, both in sensitization

and developments, would not be sufficient to wind up a watch."

II. "What is the amount of energy that you get out of that initial

amount of water, say twelve drops, when decomposed into ether?"

Answer.--"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 inch."

III. "In other words, if you put so many pounds of energy into

vibratory motion, how many foot-pounds do you get out of this?"

Answer.--"All molecular masses of metal represent in their interstitial

molecular spaces incalculable amounts of latent force, which, if

awakened and brought into intense vibratory action by the medium of

sympathetic liberation, would result in thousands of billions more

power in foot-pounds than that necessary to awaken it. 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 aggregation. 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-etheric, and could be stored free of

rotation, it would be in my estimation sufficient to run the power

of the world for a century."

This statement gives another of Keely's discoveries to the world,

viz., that molecular dissociation does not create energy, as men

have asserted Keely has claimed, but supplies it in unlimited

quantities, as the product of the latent energy accumulated in

molecular aggregation. This is to the physicist as if Keely had

asserted that two and two make a billion, but as a man of science,

who is held to be "the scientific equal of any man in the world,"

has come forward to make known that, in his opinion, "Keely has fairly

demonstrated the discovery of a force previously unknown to science,"

the discoverer at lasts feels at liberty to make public the nature of

his discoveries. Until Dr. Joseph Leidy had taken this stand, Mr. Keely

could not, without jeopardizing his interests, and the interests

of the Keely Motor Company, have made known in what particulars his

system conflicts with the systems upheld by the age in which we live.

After the warning given in the history of Huxley's "Bathybius,"

we may feel quite sure that if Keely had failed to demonstrate the

genuineness of his claims by actual experiment, no scientist would

have risked the world-wide reputation of a lifetime by endorsement of

the discovery of an unknown force, as Professor Leidy has done, while

Keely himself was under such a cloud that, to advocate his integrity

and uphold the importance of his discovery, has hitherto been enough

to awaken doubts as to the sanity of his upholders. 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

asserted, in the New York Tribune, that it was a "remarkable delusion,

full of tricks too numerous to mention, the exposure of which ought

to be made to bring the Keely craze to an end." In the same journal

an editorial states that "Mr. Keely appears to have no mechanical

ingenuity, his strong point being his ability as a collector. He has

one of the largest and best arranged collections of other people's

money to be found in the United States. Having, a number of years ago,

during a fit of temporary insanity, constructed a machine which, if any

power on earth could start it, would explode and pierce the startled

dome of heaven with flying fragments of cog-wheels and cranks, he now

sits down calmly, and allows this same mechanical nightmare to make

his living for him. This is genius; this is John W. Keely; he toils

not, neither does he spin, 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 fail."

This is a specimen of the nature of the ridicule which was encountered

by Keely's "upholders," as well as by himself. Until Professor Leidy

and Dr. Willcox came to the front, in March, 1890, Mr. Keely had no

influential supporters, and not one scientist could be found who was

ready to encounter the wasps.

Such is the position of all defenders of the truth in all ages;

but the torch being held aloft, in such hands as have now seized it,

the opportunity is given to see what Keely proclaims as truth.

We know that science denies the divisibility of atoms, but Keely

affirms and demonstrates that all corpuscules of matter may be divided

and subdivided by a certain order of vibration. During all these years

in which he has given exhibitions of the operation of his generators,

liberators, and disintegrators, in turn, each being an improvement,

successively, on the preceding one, no one has attempted to give

to the public any theory, or even so much as a sensible conjecture,

of the origin of the force.

When Mr. Keely was asked, by a woman in 1884, if it were not possible

that he had dissociated hydrogen gas, and that his unknown force

came from that dissociation, he replied that he thought it might be;

but he made no assertion that he had. This conjecture was repeated to

an English scientist, who replied that he was willing to make a bet

of 10,000l. that hydrogen is a simple element. The same scientist

says now that he should answer such a question with more caution,

and say that he had never known hydrogen to be dissociated.

Theory and Formula of Aqueous Disintegration.

The peculiar conditions as associated with the gaseous elements of

which water is composed, as regards the differential volume and gravity

of its gases, make it a ready and fit subject of vibratory research. In

submitting water to the influence of vibratory transmission, even on

simple thirds, the high action induced on the hydrogen as contrasted

with the one on the oxygen (under the same vibratory stream), causes

the antagonism between these elements that induces dissociation. The

differential antagonistic range of motion, so favouring the

antagonistic thirds as to become thoroughly repellent. The gaseous

element thus induced and registered, shows thousands of times much

greater force as regards tenuity and volume than that induced by the

chemical disintegration of heat, on the same medium. In all molecular

dissociation or disintegration of both simple or compound elements,

whether gaseous or solid, a stream of vibratory antagonistic thirds,

sixths, or ninths, on their chord mass will compel progressive

subdivisions. In the disintegration of water the instrument is set

on thirds, sixths, and ninths, to get the best effects. 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 combination; after which the

diatonic and the enharmonic scale located at the top of the instrument,

or ring, is thoroughly harmonized with the scale of ninths which is

placed at the base of the vibratory transmitter with the telephone

head. The next step is to disturb the harmony on the concentrative

thirds, between the transmitter and disintegrator. This is done

by rotating the syren so as to induce a sympathetic communication

along the nodal transmitter, or wire, that associates the two

instruments. When the note of the syren becomes concordant to the

neutral centre of the disintegrator, the highest order of sympathetic

communication is established. It is now necessary to operate the

transferable vibratory negatizer, or negative accelerator, which is

seated in the centre of the diatonic and enharmonic ring, at the top

of disintegrator, and complete disintegration will follow (from the

antagonisms induced on the concordants by said adjunct), in triple

progression, thus:--First, thirds: Molecular dissociation resolving the

water into a gaseous compound of hydrogen and oxygen. Second, sixths:

resolving the hydrogen and oxygen into a new element by second order

of dissociation, producing what I call, low atomic ether. Third,

ninths: The low atomic ether resolved into a new element, which I

denominate high or second atomic harmonic. All these transmissions

being simultaneous on the disturbance of sympathetic equilibrium by

said negative accelerator.

Example:--Taking the chord mass of the disintegrator B flat, or any

chord mass that may be represented by the combined association of

all the mechanical parts of its structure (no two structures being

alike in their chord masses), taking B flat, the resonators of said

structure are set at B flat first octave, B flat third octave, and

B flat ninth octave, by drawing out the caps of resonators until

the harmony of thirds, sixths, and ninths are reached; which a

simple movement of the fingers on the diatonic scale, at the head,

will determine by the tremulous action which is highly sensible to

the touch, on said caps. The caps are then rigidly fixed in their

different positions by set screws. The focalization to the neutral

centre is then established by dampening the steel rods, on the scale

at the back, representing the thirds, sixths, and ninths, drawing a

piece of small gum tube over them, which establishes harmony to the

chord mass of the instrument. Concordance is thus effected between

the disintegrator and the ninths of the scale at base of transmitters

with telephonic head.

This scale has a permanent sympathetic one, set on the ninth of

any mass chord that may be represented, on any and all the multiple

variations of mechanical combinations. In fact, permanently set for

universal accommodation.

The next step is to establish pure harmony between the transmitter

and the disintegrator, which is done by spinning the syren disk,

then waiting until the sympathetic note is reached, as the syren

chord, decreasing in velocity, descends the scale. At this juncture,

the negative accelerator must be immediately and rapidly rotated,

inducing high disturbance of equilibrium between the transmitter

and the disintegrator by triple negative evolution, with the result

that a force of from five to ten, fifteen, twenty, and thirty thousand

pounds to the square inch is evolved by the focalization of this triple

negative stream on the disintegrating cell, or chamber, whether there

be one, two, three, five, or ten drops of water enclosed within it.

Graduation of Machines.

Mr. Keely gives a few introductory words concerning the necessary

graduating of his instruments, for effecting conditions necessary to

ensure perfect sympathetic transmission, 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 masses, requiring greater skill than in researching

the force of a sunbeam. He writes:--The differentiation in molecular

metallic masses, or grouping, is brought about in their manipulations

in manufacturing them for commercial uses; in the forging of a piece

of metal, in the drawing of a length of wire, and in the casting of

a molten mass to any requisite form.

The nearest approach to molecular uniformity in metallic masses is in

the wire drawn for commercial uses, gold and platina being the nearest

to freedom from differentiation. But even these wires, when tested

by a certain condition of the first order of intensified molecular

vibration for a transferring medium between centres of neutrality, I

find to be entirely inadequate for the transfer of concordant unition,

as between one and the other, on account of nodal interferences. We

can appreciate the difficulty of converting such a medium to a uniform

molecular link, by knowing that it can be accomplished only after

removing all nodal interference, by inducing between the nodal waves

a condition in which they become subservient to the inter-sympathetic

vibratory molecular link of such structure or wire.

Therefore, 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 centre. Then the

differentiation between these nodal waves and the inter-molecular link

must be equated, by what I call a process of vibratory induction, so

as to induce pure concordance between one and the other. To elaborate

on this system of graduation, for effecting conditions necessary to

ensure perfect and unadulterated transmission, would make up a book

that would take days to read and months to study.

The graduating of a perfectly constructed instrument, to a condition

to transmit sympathetically, is no standard whatever for any other

one that may be built, nor ever will be, because no concordant

conditions of compound molecular aggregation can ever exist in visible

groupings. If it were even possible to make their parts perfectly

accurate one to the other, in regard to atmospheric displacement

and weight, their resonating qualities would still have a high rate

of sympathetic variation in their molecular groupings alone. If one

thousand million of coins, each one representing a certain standard

value, and all struck from the same die, were sympathetically graduated

under a vibratory subdivision of 150,000, the most amazing variation

would present itself, as between each individual coin throughout the

number, in regard to their molecular grouping and resonance....

It will be realized in the future what immense difficulties have been

encountered by Mr. Keely in perfecting his system of graduation, and in

constructing devices for the guidance of artificers and mechanicians,

whereby those who are not as abnormally endowed as he is for his work,

can bring a proper vibratory action into play to induce positive

sympathetic transmission; as will also be realized the stupidity of

the men who still seek to confine his researches to perfecting the

so-called Keely motor, before his system is sufficiently developed

to enable others to follow it up, should his physical strength give

out. His system of graduating research, when completed, will enable

men to take up the work, not from the standard of an already completed

structure that is true in its operation, though a perfect duplicate

as to size and gravity be made, for each successively constructed

machine requires a knowledge of its own conditions of sensitivity,

as regards its mass chords. Keely writes:--

"That tuning forks can be so constructed as to show coincident

or concordant association with each other, is but a very weak

illustration of the fact which governs pure acoustic assimilation. The

best only approach a condition of about a fortieth, as regards pure

attractive and propulsive receptiveness. By differentiating them to

concordant thirds, they induce a condition of molecular bombardment

between themselves, by alternate changes of long and short waves of

sympathy. Bells rung in vacuo liberate the same number of corpuscules,

at the same velocity as those surrounded by a normal atmosphere; and

hence the same acoustic force attending them, but they are inaudible

from the fact that, in vacuo, the molecular volume is reduced. Every

gaseous molecule is a resonator of itself, and is sensitive to any

and all sounds induced, whether accordant or discordant.

Answers to Questions.

The positive vibrations are the radiating or propulsive; the negative

vibrations are the ones that are attracted towards the neutral

centre. The action of the magnetic flow is dual in its evolutions,

both attractive and propulsive. The sound vibrations of themselves

have no power whatever to induce dissociation, even in its lowest

form. Certain differential, dual, triple and quadruple, chords give

introductory impulses which excite an action on molecular masses,

liquid and gaseous, that increase their range of molecular motion and

put them in that receptive state for sympathetic vibratory interchange

which favours molecular disintegration; then, as I have shown, the

diatonic enharmonic is brought into play, which further increases the

molecular range of motion beyond fifty per cent. of their diameters,

when molecular separation takes place, giving the tenuous substance

that is necessary to induce progressive subdivision. This molecular

gaseous substance, during its evolution, assumes a condition of

high rotation in the sphere or tube in which it has been generated,

and becomes itself the medium, with the proper exciters, for further

progressive dissociation. The exciters include an illuminated revolving

prism, condenser, and coloured lenses, with a capped glass tube strong

enough to carry a pressure of at least one thousand pounds per square

inch. To one of these caps a sectional wire of platinum and silver

is attached; the other cap is attached to the tube, so screwed to the

chamber as to allow it to lead to the neutral centre of said chamber.

Mineral Disintegration.

I have been repeatedly urged to repeat my disintegrations of quartz

rock; but it has been utterly out of my power to do so. The mechanical

device with which I conducted those experiments was destroyed at the

time of the proceedings against me. Its graduation occupied over four

years, after which it was operated successfully. It had been originally

constructed as an instrument for overcoming gravity; a perfect,

graduated scale of that device was accurately registered, a copy of

which I kept; I have since built three successive disintegrators

set up from that scale, but they did not operate. This peculiar

feature remained a paradox to me until I had solved the conditions

governing the chords of multiple masses; when this problem ceased

to be paradoxical in its character. As I have said, there are no

two compound aggregated forms of visible matter that are, or ever

can be, so duplicated as to show pure sympathetic concordance one to

the other. Hence the necessity of my system of graduation, and of a

compound device that will enable anyone to correct the variations

that exist in compound molecular structures; or in other words to

graduate such, so as to bring them to a successful operation....

Keely.

Disturbance of Magnetic Needle.

If Keely's theories are correct, science will in time classify all

the important modifications of the one force in nature as sympathetic

streams, each stream composed of triple flows. Mr. Keely maintains

that the static condition which the magnetic needle assumes, when

undisturbed by any extraneous force outside of its own sympathetic

one, proves conclusively that the power of the dominant third, of

the triple combination of the magnetic terrestrial envelope, is the

controlling one of this sympathetic triplet, and the one towards

which all the others co-ordinate. All the dominant conditions of

nature represent the focal centres towards which like surrounding

ones become sympathetically subservient. The rapid rotation of the

magnetic needle of a compass which Mr. Keely shows in his experiments,

rests entirely on the alternating of the dominant alone, which is

effected by a triple condition of vibration that is antagonistic to

its harmonious flow as associated with its other attendants. A rapid

change of polarity is induced, and rapid rotation necessarily follows.

Quoting from Keely's writings,--"The human ear cannot detect the

triple chord of any vibration, or sounding note, but every sound that

is induced of any range, high or low, is governed by the same laws,

as regards triple action of such, that govern every sympathetic flow

in Nature. Were it not for these triple vibratory conditions, change

of polarity could never be effected, and consequently there could be

no rotation. Thus the compounding of the triple triple, to produce the

effect, would give a vibration in multiplication reaching the ninth,

in order to induce subservience, the enumeration of which it would

be folly to undertake, as the result would be a string of figures

nearly a mile in length to denote it.

When the proper impulse is given to induce the rotation with pure

alternating corpuscular action, the conditions of action become

perpetual in their character, lasting long enough from that one impulse

to wear out any machine denoting such action, and on the sympathetic

stream eternally perpetual. The action of the neutral or focalizing

centres represents molecular focalization and redistribution, not

having any magnetism associated with them; but when the radiating arms

of their centres are submitted to the triple compound vibratory force,

representing their mass thirds, they become magnetic and consequently

cease their rotation. Their rotation is induced by submitting them

to three different orders of vibration, simultaneously giving the

majority to the harmonic third.

Theory of the Induction of Sympathetic Chords to excite rotation,

by vibrophonic trajection to and from centres of neutrality, as

induced and shown to Professor Leidy, Dr. Willcox, and others, on

revolving globe.

All hollow spheres, of certain diameters, represent, as per diameters

and their volume of molecular mass, pure, unadulterated, sympathetic

resonation towards the enharmonic and diatonic thirds of any, and

in fact all, concordant sounds. In tubes it is adversely different,

requiring a definite number of them so graduated as to represent a

confliction by thirds, sixths, and ninths, as towards the harmonic

scale. When the conditions are established, the acoustic result of

this combination, when focalized, represents concordant harmony,

as between the chord mass of the instrument to be operated and

chord mass of the tubes of resonation. Therefore the shortest

way towards establishing pure concordance, between any number of

resonating mediums, is by the position that Nature herself assumes

in her multitudinous arrangements of the varied forms and volumes of

matter--the spherical. The great difficulty to overcome, in order to

get a revolution of the said sphere, exists in equating the interior

adjuncts of same. In other words, the differentiation induced must be

so equated as to harmonize and make their conditions purely concordant

to the molecular mass of the sphere. Example: Suppose the chord of the

sphere mass represents B flat, or any other chord, and the internal

adjuncts by displacement of atmospheric volume differentiates the

volume one-twentieth; this displacement in the shell's atmospheric

volume would represent an antagonistic twentieth against the shell's

mass concordance, to equate which it would be necessary to so graduate

the shell's internal adjuncts as to get at the same chord;--an octave

or any number of octaves that comes nearest to the concordance of

the shell's atmospheric volume. No intermediates between the octaves

would ever reach sympathetic union.

We will now take up the mechanical routine as associated with adjuncts

of interference, and follow the system for chording the mechanical

aggregation in its different parts, in order to induce the transmissive

sympathy necessary to perfect evolution, and to produce revolution

of the sphere or shell.

Example.--Suppose that we had just received from the machine shop a

spun shell of twelve inches internal diameter, 1·32 of an inch thick,

which represents an atmospheric volume of 904·77 cubic inches. On

determination by research we find the shell to be on its resonating

volume B flat, and the molecular volume of the metal that the sphere

is composed of, B natural. This or any other antagonistic chord, as

between the chord mass of the shell and its atmospheric volume, would

not interfere but would come under subservience. We now pass a steel

shaft through its centre, 1/2 inch in diameter, which represents its

axial rest. This shaft subjects the atmospheric volume of the shell to

a certain displacement or reduction, to correct which we first register

the chord note of its mass, and find it to be antagonistic to the

chord mass of the shell, a certain portion of an octave. This must be

corrected. The molecular volume of the shaft must be reduced in volume,

either by filing or turning, so as to represent the first B flat chord

that is reached by such reduction. When this is done the first line of

interference is neutralized, and the condition of sympathy is as pure

between the parts as it was when the globe was minus its axis. There is

now introduced on its axis a ring which has seven tubes or graduating

resonators, the ring being two-thirds the diameter of the globe,

the resonators three inches long and 3/4 inch diameter, each one to

be set on the chord of B flat, which is done by sliding the small

diaphragm in the tube to a point that will indicate B flat. This

setting then controls the metallic displacement of the metallic

combination, as also of the arms necessary to hold the ring and

resonators on shaft or axis. Thus the second equation is established,

both on resonation and displacement. 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 itself. This

is done by graduating every third pin of its scale to B flat, thirds,

which represent antagonistic thirds to the shell's molecular mass. This

antagonism must be thoroughly sensitive to the chord mass of one of

the hemispheres of which the globe is composed. The axis of the scale

ring must rotate loosely on the globe's shaft without revolving with

the globe itself; which it is prevented from doing by being weighted

on one side of the ring by a small hollow brass ball, holding about

two ounces of lead. The remaining work on the device is finished by

painting the interior of the globe, one hemisphere black and one white,

and attaching a rubber bulb such as is used to spray perfume, to the

hollow end of the shaft. This bulb equates vibratory undulations,

thus preventing an equation of molecular bombardment on its dark side

when sympathetically influenced. It is now in condition to denote

the sympathetic concordance between living physical organisms, or

the receptive transmittive concordance necessary to induce rotation.

Philosophy of Transmission and Rotation of Musical Sphere.

The only two vibratory conditions that can be so associated as to

excite high sympathetic affinity, as between two physical organisms,

are:--Etheric chord of B flat, 3rd octave, and on etheric sympathetic

chords transmission E flat on the scale 3rd, 6ths, and 9ths; octaves

harmonic; having the 3rd dominant, the 6th enharmonic, and the 9th

diatonic.

The chord mass representing the musical sphere, being the sympathetic

etheric chord of B flat third octave, indicated by the focalization of

its interior mechanical combination, as against the neutral sevenths

of its atmospheric volume, makes the shell highly sensitive to the

reception of pure sympathetic concordance, whether it be physical,

mechanical, or a combination of both. Taking the chord mass of

the different mechanical parts of the sphere and its adjuncts, as

previously explained, when associated and focalized to represent

pure concordance, as between its atmospheric volume and sphere mass,

which means the pure unit of concordance, we have the highest position

that can be established in relation to its sympathetic susceptiveness

to negative antagonism. 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 workings, actually requiring antagonistic chords

to move and accelerate. The dark side of the shell, which represents

fifty per cent. of its full area of pure concordant harmony, is the

receptive area for the influence of the negative transmissive chords

of the thirds, sixths and ninths to bombard upon; which bombardment

disturbs the equilibrium of said sphere, and induces rotation. The

rotation can be accelerated or retarded, according as the antagonistic

chords of the acoustic forces are transmitted in greater or lesser

volume. The action induced by the mouth organ, transmitted at a

distance from the sphere without any connection of wire, demonstrates

the purity of the principle of sympathetic transmission, as negatized

or disturbed by discordants; which, focalizing on the resonating

sevenths of resonators, or tubes attached to ring, the sympathetic

flow is by this means transmitted to the focalizing centre, or centre

of neutrality, to be re-distributed at each revolution of sphere,

keeping intact the sympathetic volume during sensitization, thus

preventing the equation or stoppage of its rotation.

Again, the sphere resting on its journals in the ring, as graduated

to the condition of its interior combinations, represents a pure

sympathetic concordant under perfect equation ready to receive the

sympathetic, or to reject the non-sympathetic. If a pure sympathetic

chord is transmitted coincident to its full combination, the sphere

will remain quiescent; but if a transmission of discordance is brought

to bear upon it, its sympathetic conditions become repellent to this

discordance....

Keely.

Hertz in his conjectures that a knowledge of the structure of ether

should unveil the essence of matter itself, and of its inherent

properties, weight and inertia, is treading the path that leads to this

knowledge. Professor Fitzgerald says:--"Ether must be the means by

which electric and magnetic forces exist, it should explain chemical

actions, and if possible gravity." The law of sympathetic vibration

explains chemical affinities as a sympathetic attractive, but inherent,

force; in short, as gravity. This opens up too wide a territory even

but to peer into in the dawning light of Keely's system of vibratory

physics. The boundary line is crossed, and the crowds of researchers

in electro-magnetism are full of ardour. Hertz constructed a circuit,

whose period of vibration for electric currents was such that he was

able to see sparks, due to the increased vibration, leaping across a

small air-space in this resonant circuit; his experiments have proved

and demonstrated the ethereal theory of electro-magnetism:--that

electro-magnetic actions are due to a medium pervading all known

space; while Keely's experiments have proved that all things are due

to conditions of ether.

Professor Fitzgerald closes one of his lectures on ether in these

words:--"There are metaphysical grounds for reducing matter to motion,

and potential to kinetic energy. Let us for a moment contemplate what

is betokened by this theory that in electro-magnetic engines we are

using as our mechanism the ether, the medium that fills all known

space. It was a great step in human progress when man learnt to make

material machines, when he used the elasticity of his bow, and the

rigidity of his arrow to provide food and defeat his enemies. It was a

great advance when he learnt to use the chemical action of fire; when

he learnt to use water to float his boats, and air to drive them; when,

by artificial selection, he provided himself with food and domestic

animals. For two hundred years he has made heat his slave to drive

his machinery. Fire, water, earth, and air have long been his slaves,

but it is only within the last few years that man has won the battle

lost by the giants of old, has snatched the thunderbolt from Jove

himself, and enslaved the all-pervading ether."

Of the experiments of Hertz, in inducing vibrations "in ether waves,"

Professor Fitzgerald says: "If we consider the possible radiating

power of an atom, 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 burner; so if there is reason

to think that any greater oscillation might disintegrate the atom,

we are still a long way from it."

Here we have an admission that the atom may be divisible; but the

professor's conjecture is made upon an incorrect hypothesis. The

"possible theory of ether and matter" which Professor Fitzgerald puts

forward, in his lecture on Electro-Magnetic Radiation, is in harmony

with Keely's theories. This hypothesis explains the differences

in nature as differences in motion, ending: "Can we resist the

conclusion that all motion is thought? Not that contradiction in terms,

'unconscious thought,' but living thought; that all nature is the

language of One in whom we live, and move, and have our being?" This

great truth the Buddhists have taught for ages. There is no such thing

as blind or dead matter, as there is no blind nor unconscious thought.

CHAPTER XIII.

1891.

"MORE SCIENCE."

The only hope for science is more science.--Drummond.

"Philosophy must finally endeavour to be itself

constructive." Here Professor Seth laid stress on the necessity

of a teleological view of the universe, not in the paltry,

mechanical sense sometimes associated with the word teleology,

but as vindicating the existence of an end or organic unity

in the process of the world, constituting it an evolution

and not a series of aimless changes.... As Goethe taught,

in one of his finest poems, we do well to recognize in the

highest attributes of human-kind our nearest glimpse into

the nature of the divine. The part was not greater than the

whole, and we might rest assured that whatever of wisdom and

goodness there was in us had not been born out of nothing,

but had its fount, somewhere and somehow, in a more perfect

Goodness and Truth.--Review of Professor Seth's address.

Believe nothing which is unreasonable, and reject nothing as

unreasonable without proper examination.--Gautama Buddha.

I do not believe that matter is inert, acted upon by an

outside force. To me it seems that every atom is possessed

by a certain amount of primitive intelligence.--Edison.

History tells us that Pythagoras would not allow himself to be called a

sage, as his predecessors had done, but designated himself as a lover

of wisdom; ardent in the pursuit of wisdom, he could not arrogate

to himself the possession of wisdom. Yet, in our time, so unwilling

are the searchers after wisdom to admit that there can be anything

"new under the sun," anything that they do not already know, that we

find the number of men of science to be marvellously small who possess

the first condition of success in scientific research, as set down by

Herbert Spencer, very few who do not arrogate to themselves too much

learning to permit them to admit the possibility of any new revelation

of truth. In every age of our world, to meet the requirements of the

age, in its step-by-step progress from barbarism to civilization and

enlightenment, there have appeared extraordinary men, having knowledge

far in advance of the era in which they lived. Of such, among many,

were Moses, Zoroaster, Confucius, Plato, and above these, Gautama the

Buddha. But Moses, with all his knowledge of bacilli and bacteria,

could not have met the requirements of any later age. The "eye for an

eye" and "tooth for a tooth" period passed, and King David, who was

so superior to other Kings of marauding tribes, that he was called "a

man after God's own heart," satisfied his desire for punishment, to be

meted out to his personal enemies, by prayer to God to "put out their

eyes," and to "let them fall from one wickedness to another." This was

a step in advance, for it gave those who had offended him a chance to

escape all such summary proceedings as Moses had authorized. Still,

the time was a long way off before a greater than Moses appeared to

teach the world that such prayers are unavailing, that we can hate sin

without hating the sinner, and that the Alpha and Omega of religion is

to live in love and in the performance of duty. The Jewish prophets

foretold the coming of Jesus of Nazareth; and the interpreters of

Scripture are not alone now in having predicted that we are approaching

a new dispensation, an age of harmony, which the twentieth century

is to usher in, according to Biblical prophets. 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 unfold;

that those who live in this coming age will know things of which we

have no conception. Morley, in the spirit of prophecy, has said that

in the near future a great intellectual giant will arise to bless

our globe, who will surpass all other men of genius, reasoning that

the representative of a larger age must be greater in genius than any

predecessor. When the system is made known by which Keely dissociates

the molecule and atoms by successive orders of vibration, proving

two laws in physics as fallacious, we shall not hesitate to say that

"the light of the new dawn" has now broken upon the world of science,

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 Morley. One quality of true genius is humility. "What

a brain you must have!" said a man of science to Keely, not long

since, "to have thought this all out." This man of genius replied,

"I was but the instrument of a Higher Power." We are all instruments

of a Higher Power, 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 perfected.

It has been said that man enters upon life as a born idiot; and there

are many who think that, in comparison with the possibilities which the

future promises in the way of the physical evolution of the race, we

are but as idiots still. Having reached our present stage of physical

and mental development, 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 future. After which,

as a consequence, there can be no doubt that physical development

will again take its turn; for, as Tennyson has said,--

"When reign the world's great bridals, chaste and calm,

Then springs the coming race that rules mankind."

Not the least among the many applications of Keely's discoveries will

be that which will prove, by demonstration, whether the chord of mass

in a man and woman is near enough in the octaves to be beneficial,

or so far apart as to be deteriorating.

"There is no truer truth obtainable

By man than comes of music."

The earlier processes of civilization belonged to an age of

spontaneity, of unreflective productivity; an age that expressed

itself in myths, created religious and organized social forms and

habits of life in harmony with these spontaneous creations.

"O, ye delicious fables! where the wave

And woods were peopled and the air with things

So lovely! Why, ah why, has Science grave

Scattered afar your sweet imaginings?"

asks Barry Cornwall. But now that we have entered upon a more advanced

age in thought, as in all things pertaining to discovery and practical

application, or invention, a critical defining intellectual age,

we must henceforth depend upon true science for our progress toward

a higher enlightenment. Science, as will be seen, embraces religion,

and must become, as Keely asserts, the religion of the world, when

it is made known in all its glory and grandeur, sweeping away all

foot-holds for scepticism, and spreading the knowledge of God, as a God

of love, until this knowledge covers the earth as the waters cover the

sea. As has been said, the word science, in its largest signification,

includes intellectual achievement in every direction open to the mind,

and the co-ordination of the results in a progressive philosophy

of life. Philosophy has been defined as the science of causes or

of first principles, and should be limited, almost exclusively, to

the mental sciences. This is the field which Keely is exploring; the

knowledge of the "hidden things" which he is bringing to the light is

pure philosophical knowledge, in the widest acceptation of the term:

the knowledge of effects as dependent on their causes.

"Behold an infinite of floating worlds

Dividing crystal waves of ether pure

In endless voyage without port."

Is it not a marvel of inspiration to have been able to cast line

and plummet in such a sea of knowledge, to be able to demonstrate

the power of that "sympathetic outreach" which, acting from our

satellite upon the waters of our oceans and seas, through the vast

space that separates it from our earth, lifts these waters, once in

every twenty-four hours, from their beds; and, as gently as a mother

would lay her infant on its couch, places them again where they rest?

God hath chosen, as Paul said, the foolish things of the world to

confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world

to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world

and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which

are not to bring to naught things which are; that no flesh should

glory in His presence. Christ said, "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of

heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise

and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes."

Truth never changes; but as new truths are revealed to us, to meet

the necessities of progress (in our development from ignorance

into the wisdom of angels), our point of view is ever changing,

like the landscape which we look out upon from the swiftly gliding

railway-carriage that bears us to our destination. As yet, "Earth

has shown us only the title-page of a book" that we may, if we will,

read its first pages here, and continue reading throughout eternity.

When Bulwer wrote of "a power that can replenish or invigorate life,

heal and preserve, cure disease: enabling the physical organism to

re-establish the due equilibrium of its natural powers, thereby curing

itself," he foreshadowed one of Keely's discoveries. "Once admit the

possibility that the secrets of nature conceal forces yet undeveloped,"

says the author of "Masollam," "which may contain a cure for the evils

by which it is now afflicted, and it is culpable timidity to shrink

from risking all to discover that cure." This author teaches that

humanity at large has a claim higher than the claims of the blood-tie;

that a love based upon no higher sentiment, makes us blind to the

claims of duty; and this is why, when men or women are chosen to do

a great work, for the human family, the ligaments which have bound

them too exclusively to their own families, are cut and torn apart.

No greater work has ever been committed to a man to do than that which

Keely's discoveries are preparing the way for. Science was rocking the

world into the sleep of death--for materialism is death--its votaries

declaring atoms to be eternally active, and the intellect which had

discovered the existence of these atoms to end with the life of the

molecular body. On this subject Simmons has written:--

"Shall impalpable light speed so swiftly and safely through infinite

space--and the mind that measures its speed, and makes it tell its

secrets in the spectroscope, be buried with the body? Shall mere breath

send its pulsations through the wire and, after fifty miles of silence,

sound again in speech or music in a far-off city, or stamp itself in

the phonograph to sound again in far-off centuries--and the soul that

has wrought these wonders pass to eternal silence? Shall physical

force persist for ever--and this love, which is the strongest force

in nature, perish? It would seem wiser to trust that the infinite

law, which is everywhere else so true, will take care of this human

longing which it has made, and fulfil it in eternal safety. We

make no argument, but we cannot ignore all the intimations of

immortality. Cyrus Field tells us of the night when, after his

weary search for that long-lost cable two miles deep in mid-ocean,

the grapnel caught it and, trembling with suspense, they drew it to

the deck, hardly trusting their eyes, but creeping to feel it and make

sure it was there. And when, as they watched, a spark soon came from a

finger in England, showing that the line was sound, strong men wept and

rockets rent the midnight darkness. We and our world float like a ship

on the mysterious sea of being, in whose abysses the grapnel of science

touches no solid line of logic connecting us to another land. But now

and then there come from convictions, stronger than cables, flashes

of light bidding us trust that our dead share in divine immortality,

and are safe in the arms of Infinite Law and Eternal Love."

Keely's demonstrations suggest "the missing link" between matter and

mind, the solid line of logic which may yet be laid in "the widening

dominion of the human mind over the forces of nature." In "Keely's

Secrets," No. 9, Vol. I. of the T.P.S., some of the elements of the

possibilities resulting to the world from Keely's discoveries were

set down. War will become an impossibility; and, as Browning's poem of

"Childe Roland" forecasts, "The Dark Tower" of unbelief will crumble at

the bugle-blast which levels its walls to their foundation, revealing

such a boundless region of research as the mind of man could never

conceive were he not the offspring of the Creator. Not long since,

Mr. Keely was congratulated upon having secured the attention of men of

science, connected with the University of Pennsylvania, to his work of

research. "Now, you will be known as a great discoverer, not as Keely

the motor-man," said one of them present; whom he answered, "I have

discovered so little, in comparison with what remains to be discovered,

that I cannot call myself a discoverer." One of the professors present

took Keely by the hand and said, "You are a great discoverer."

All thoughtful men who have witnessed the latest developments of the

force displayed by Keely, in his researching experiments for aerial

navigation, are made to realize that more through his discoveries,

than by the progressive development of the altruistic element in

humanity (dreamed of by speculative optimists), our race will be

brought into that dispensation of peace and harmony, anticipated by

"seers" and foretold by prophets as the millennial age. It requires

no great measure of foresight to discern, as a natural consequence of

the control and application of this force in art and commerce, that

ameliorated condition of the masses which will end the mighty conflict

now so blindly being waged between capital and labour. [11] And to

the eye of faith, it is not difficult to look beyond the intervening

æons of centuries, to the literal fulfilment of the promise of that

millennial period when men shall live in brotherly love together;

making heaven of earth as even now it is in our power to do if we

live up to Christ's command: "Whatsoever ye would that others should

do unto you, that do ye also unto them." Had some of the dogmatic

scientists of this age followed this command, Keely's discovery

might have been sooner known in all its importance, protecting him,

as their acknowledgment would have done, 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 ends. No scientist who witnessed the

production of the force, displayed by Keely, in a proper spirit,

but would have been welcomed by him to further experiments in its

operations, as were Professor Leidy and Dr. Wilcox in 1889. So, in

truth, those who printed their edicts against Keely about ten years

since are, in part, responsible for the loss to the world which

this long delay has occasioned. Still, in view of the acknowledged

fact that not one of the great laws which science now accepts as

incontrovertible truths, but was vehemently denied by the scientists

of its time, declared to be a priori impossible; its discoverers and

supporters denounced as fools or charlatans, and even investigation

refused as being a waste of time and thought; it would be too much to

expect from the thinkers of this age any greater degree of readiness

to investigate claims, that threatened to demolish their cherished

notions, than characterized their predecessors.

But the time was not ripe for the disclosure: "God never hurries." He

counts the centuries as we count the seconds, and the nearer that

we approach to the least comprehension of His "underlying purpose,"

the better fitted are we to do the work He assigns us, while waiting

patiently for our path of duty to be made clear to us; like the

labourer, in Tolstoi's Confession, who completed the work that had

been laid out for him, without understanding what the result would

be, and unable to judge whether his master had planned well. If the

prophecies of Scripture are fulfilled, 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 inherit, and of which

Oliphant has said that we are so ignorant that we wholly fail to see

them, though they sweep like mighty seas throughout all human nature.

What is the character of these powers which Oliphant has written so

eloquently concerning? Can we not form an inference from St. Paul's

most precious and deeply scientific context, in which he introduced

the quotation from the Greek poet Aratus, who was well known in Athens,

having studied there?

If we are the offspring of God, how rich must be our inheritance! If

we are the children of God, why do we not trust our Father? But this

is not science! A philosopher has said that if ever a human being

needed divine pity, it is the man of science who believes in nothing

but what he can prove by scientific methods. Scientists will have to

admit, in the light of Keely's discoveries, that the sensibility and

intelligence, which confer upon us our self-directive power, do not

have their origin in our molecular structures. That they take their

first beginning in matter is one of the most inadequate conceptions

that was ever proposed for scientific belief. If it were so, we

could not claim to be the offspring of God, who is the Fountain of

all life, the ever living, from whom, as "His very kind," we inherit

this self-directive power; not the molecular bodies which are our

clothing. God is our Father. The material structure is the mother

and nurse. The hypothesis that there are no beings in the universe

but those which possess molecular bodies, is the conjecture of a mind

that has no conception of the illimitable power of the Almighty. The

link, which connects mind with matter, gives us a higher conception

of the Deity. Keely places it in the mind flow, the result of the

sixth subdivision. When we are done with "the things of Time," and

not before, 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 Father.

The problem of the origin of life would become a matter of

easy analysis, writes Keely, if the properties governing the

different orders of matter could be understood in their different

evolutions. Disturbance of equilibrium is the prime mover, aggregator

and disperser of all forces that exist in nature. The force of the

mind on matter is a grand illustration of the power of the finer over

the crude, of the etheric over the molecular. If the differential

forces of the brain could become equated, eternal perpetuity would be

the result. Under such a condition the physical would remain free of

disintegration or decomposition. But the law, laid out by the Great

Master, which governs the disturbance of equilibrium, making the crude

forms of matter subservient to the finer or higher forms, forbidding

anything molecular or terrestrial to assimilate with the high etheric,

the law that has fixed the planets in their places, is an unknown

law to the finite mind, comprehended only by the Infinite One....

Some of our men of science once settled the problem of the origin of

life to their own satisfaction, only to learn that "speculation is

not science;" for a substance which, when dissolved, crystallizes as

gypsum, cannot produce vital force; 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 sea.

When our learned men are forced to admit that "all motion is thought,"

that "all nature is the language of One in whom we live, and are moved,

and have our being," the attempts to evolve life out of chemical

elements will cease; the Mosaic records will no longer be denied,

which tell us that the Creator's law for living organisms is that

each plant seeds, and each animal bears, after its kind; not that

each seeds and bears after another kind. The doctrine of evolution,

as made known to us in Geology, is a fundamental truth; proving that

"there has been a plan, glorious in its scheme, perfect in system,

progressing through unmeasured ages, and looking ever toward man and

a spiritual end."

The Rev. John Andrew, in his "Thoughts on the Evolution Theory of

Creation," mentions that Haeckel gives the pedigree of man from

primeval moneron in twenty-two stages. Stage twenty is the man-like

ape; stage twenty-one is the ape-like man; stage twenty-two is the man;

but he confesses that the twenty-first stage--the ape-like man--is

entirely wanting in all the records.

There is no missing link in the evolution theory, as laid down in

Keely's pure philosophy. Inasmuch as the Father of all is Himself

a Spiritual Being, cosmical law leads us to expect that the type of

created being, His offspring, shall be spirit also. Nor can Being in

any object be so attenuated, or so far removed from Him who filleth

all in all, but it must surely retain an aura of His spiritual

nature. The corner-stone of this philosophy is one power, one law;

order and method reigning throughout creation; spirit controlling

matter, 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 spirit. Nor is this a new

truth. According to Diogenes Laërtius, Thales taught that souls are

the motive forces of the universe. Empedocles affirms that spiritual

forces move the visible world. Virgil asserted that mind animates

and moves the world; that the spiritual realm is the soul of the

universe. The universe is not a mass of dead matter, says Gilbert (in

his work, "De Magnate"), but is pervaded with this soul, this living

principle, this unseen cause of all visible phenomena, underlying

all movements in the earth beneath and in the heavens above. 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 law: and that God was not transiently

present in nature--that is in a mere creative moment; nor has He left

the world in a state of orphanage, bereft of a deific influence and

care, but He is immanent in nature, as the Apostle Paul and Aratus

and Spinoza declared. As certainly as the unborn infant's life is

that of the mother, so is it divinely true that somehow God's life

includes ours; and we shall understand the nature of that relationship

when, in due time, we have been "born again" into the life of the

spirit. "The economy of creation is not regarded in this philosophy

as a theory of development all in one direction; but as a cycle in

which, after development, and as its fruit, the last term gives again

the first. 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 day; with this very serious consequence that, to keep

the break out of sight, the entire doctrine of spirit and the spiritual

world is ignored or altogether denied." Science admits that nature

works with dual force, though at rest she is a unit. "Nature is one

eternal circle." Keely's discoveries prove that the doctrine of the

Trinity should be set down as an established canon of science--the

Trinity of force. All nature's sympathetic streams--cerebellic,

gravital, electric and magnetic--are made up of triple currents. The

ancients understood this dogma in a far deeper sense than modern

theology has construed it. The great and universal Trinity of cause,

motion and matter--or of will, thought and manifestation--was known

to the Rosicrucians as prima materia. Paracelsus states that each

of these three is also the other two; for, as nothing can possibly

exist without cause, matter and energy--that is, spirit, matter and

soul (the ultimate cause of existence being that it exists), we may

therefore look upon all forms of activity as being the action of

the universal or Divine will operating upon and through the ether,

as the skilled artificer uses his tools to accomplish his designs;

making the comparison in all reverence.

"The existence of an intelligent Creator, a personal God, can to my

mind, almost be proved from chemistry," writes Edison; and George

Parsons Lathrop, in commenting upon Edison's belief, says:--"Surely

it is a circumstance calculated to excite reflection, and to

cause a good deal of satisfaction, that this keen and penetrating

mind, so vigorously representing the practical side of American

intelligence--the mind of a remarkable exponent of applied science, 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 things." Edison, it seems, like Keely,

has never been discouraged by the obstacles which he meets with, in

his researches, nor even inclined to be hopeless of ultimate success.

Unlike Keely, Edison through all his years of experimental research has

never once made a discovery. All the work of this great and successful

inventor has been deductive, and the results achieved by him have been

simply those of pure invention. Like Keely he constructs a theory,

and works on its lines until he finds it untenable; then, he at once

discards it and forms another theory. In connection with the electric

light, he evolved or constructed three thousand successive theories;

each one reasonable and apparently likely to be true; yet, only in

two cases was he able to prove by experiment that his theories were

correct. Of such a nature is the "dead-work" which all researchers

on scientific principles must toil through to attain success.

They must keep their minds open to every suggestion or idea, no matter

how fanciful it may seem to others, and they must never let go their

hold of it until it has been tested in all its possibilities. The same

words which Lathrop uses, in describing Edison's characteristics, are

equally applicable to Keely, who, in addition to his native endowment

of a genius for science and mechanics, brings to bear vast patience

in logical deduction, careful calculation, unlimited experiment, a

ceaseless industry, and a persistence which refuses to be discouraged.

Edison has said that he does not philosophize. Like General Grant,

he is a man of action. When asked what theory he held upon a subject

under discussion, General Grant replied, "I never theorize: when

there is anything to be done, I do it." [12] Edison is always doing

something which the public can see and appreciate, but, unlike Keely,

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 causation," "the cause of the cause," which hitherto has rather

been assumed than demonstrated.

"If we believe," says Professor Sir G. G. Stokes, "that what are

called the natural sciences spring from the same supreme source

as those which are concerned with morals and Natural Theology in

general, we may expect to find broad lines of analogy between the

two; and thus it may conceivably happen that the investigations,

which belong to natural science, may here and there afford us hints

with respect even to the moral sciences, with which at first sight

they might appear to have no connection. And if such are to be found,

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 subjects."

Mr. Keely's first discovery of an unknown force and the releasing

of an unknown energy seemed to be by accident; and most certainly no

one could then have foreseen that his researches in physical science

would lead him on step by step, and very slow steps they have been,

to such important findings. In the pursuit of physical science he

encountered paradoxes and anomalies, 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 chaff.

The late Dr. 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 attained, he was not so unreasonable as to

expect that others would, in his time, regard them even as probable,

much less as proved. He expressed himself as content with the private

enjoyment which these views imparted to himself, "especially as that

enjoyment is not merely the gratification of a chemical curiosity,

but attaches to a much larger field of thought." One of the points

to which he refers, as possessing great value to his own mind,

is the place which his investigation assigns to material nature in

the universe of being. He says that it is much the fashion in the

present day to regard matter and force, more shortly matter, as all in

all. But, according to the view of things which has presented itself

to both of these men, "matter comes out rather as a precipitate

in the universal ether, determined by a mathematical necessity;

a grand and beautiful cloud-work in the realm of light, bounded on

both sides by a world of spirits; on the upper and anterior side,

by the great Creator Himself, and the hierarchy of spirits to which

He awarded immediate existence; and on the lower and posterior side,

by that world of spirits of which the material body is the mother

and nurse." Macvicar says the hypothesis that there are no beings

in the universe but those which possess a molecular structure, and

that sensibility and intelligence take their first beginnings in

such structures, is one of the most inadequate conceptions that was

ever proposed for scientific belief. Science is not only very blind,

but glories in her blindness. She gropes among the dead seeking

the origin of life, instead of going to the Fountain of all life,

the Ever Living, as Dr. Macvicar and Keely have done.

In theorizing on the philosophy of planetary suspension Mr. Keely

writes: "As regards planetary volume, 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 them? I can only answer this question

properly by entering into a progressive synthesis, starting on the

rotating etheric centres that were fixed by the Creator with their

attractive or accumulative power. If you ask what power it is that

gives to each etheric atom its inconceivable velocity of rotation,

or introductory impulse, I must answer that no finite mind will ever

be able to conceive what it is. The philosophy of accumulation,"

assimilation, Macvicar calls it, "is the only proof that such a power

has been given. The area, if we can so speak of such an atom, presents

to the attractive or magnetic, the elective or propulsive, all the

receptive force and all the antagonistic force that characterizes a

planet of the largest magnitude; consequently, as the accumulation

goes on, the perfect equation remains the same. When this minute

centre has once been fixed, the power to rend it from its position

would necessarily have to be as great as to displace the most immense

planet that exists. When this atomic neutral centre is displaced,

the planet must go with it. The neutral centre carries the full load

of any accumulation from the start, and remains the same, for ever

balanced in the eternal space."

Mr. Keely illustrates his idea of "a neutral centre" in this

way:--We will imagine that, after an accumulation of a planet of any

diameter--say, 20,000 miles more or less, for the size has nothing

to do with the problem--there should be a displacement of all the

material, with the exception of a crust 5000 miles thick, leaving

an intervening void between this crust and a centre of the size of

an ordinary billiard ball, it would then require a force as great

to move this small central mass as it would to move the shell of

5000 miles thickness. Moreover, this small central mass would carry

the load of this crust for ever, keeping it equi-distant; and there

could be no opposing power, however great, that could bring them

together. The imagination staggers in contemplating the immense load

which bears upon this point of centre, where weight ceases. This is

what we understand by a neutral centre.

Again, Mr. Keely, in explanation of the working of his engine,

writes:--In the conception of any machine heretofore constructed, the

medium for inducing a neutral centre has never been found. If it had,

the difficulties of perpetual-motion seekers would have ended, and this

problem would have become an established and operating fact. It would

only require an introductory impulse of a few pounds, on such a device,

to cause it to run for centuries. In the conception of my vibratory

engine, I did not seek to attain perpetual motion; but a circuit is

formed that actually has a neutral centre, which is in a condition

to be vivified by my vibratory ether, and while under operation, by

said substance, is really a machine that is virtually independent of

the mass (or globe), and it is the wonderful velocity of the vibratory

circuit which makes it so. Still, with all its perfection, it requires

to be fed with the vibratory ether to make it an independent motor....

Alluding to his illustration of a neutral centre, Mr. Keely says:--The

man who can, even in a simple way, appreciate this vast problem has

been endowed by the Creator with one of the greatest gifts which He

can bestow upon a mortal. It is well known that all structures require

a foundation in strength according to the weight of the mass they

have to carry, but the foundations of the universe rest on a vacuous

point far more minute than a molecule; in fact, to express this truth

properly, on an inter-etheric point, which requires an infinite mind

to understand. 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 end; with this difference, that one is

the positive field, while the other is the negative field....

Again, Mr. Keely gives some suggestive thoughts as follows:--In seeking

to solve the great problems which have baffled me, from time to time,

in my progressive researches, I have often been struck by the fact that

I have, to all seeming, accidentally tripped over their solution. The

mind of man is not infinite, and it requires an infinite brain to

evolve infinite positions. My highest power of concentration failed

to attain the results which, at last, seeming accident revealed. God

moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; and if He has

chosen me as the tool to carve out certain positions, what credit

have I? None; and, though it is an exalting thought that He has

singled me out for a specific work, I know that the finest tool is

of no value without a manipulator. It is the artist who handles it

that makes it what it is. Indifference to the marvels which surround

us is a deep reproach. If we have neither leisure nor inclination

to strive to unravel some of the mysteries of nature, which task to

the utmost the highest order of human intelligence, we can at least

exercise and improve our intellectual faculties by making ourselves

acquainted with the operation of agencies already revealed to man;

learning, by the experience of the past, to be tolerant of all truth;

remembering that one of Nature's agencies, known once as of use only

in awakening men's minds to an awful sense of the Creator's power,

has now become a patient slave of man's will, rushing upon his errands

with the speed of light around the inhabited globe....

In comparing the tenuity of the atmosphere with that of the etheric

flows, obtained by Mr. Keely from his invention for dissociating

the molecules of air by vibration, he says, It is as platina to

hydrogen gas. Molecular separation of air brings us to the first

subdivision only; inter-molecular, to the second; atomic, to the third;

inter-atomic, to the fourth; etheric, to the fifth; and inter-etheric,

to the sixth subdivision, or positive association with luminiferous

ether. In my introductory argument I have contended that this is the

vibratory envelope of all atoms. In my definition of atom I do not

confine myself to the sixth subdivision, where this luminiferous ether

is developed in its crude form, as far as my researches prove. I think

this idea will be pronounced, by the physicists of the present day,

a wild freak of the imagination. Possibly, in time, a light may fall

upon this theory that will bring its simplicity forward for scientific

research. At present I can only compare it to some planet in a dark

space, where the light of the sun of science has not yet reached it....

I assume that sound, like odour, is a real substance of unknown

and wonderful tenuity, emanating from a body where it has been

induced by percussion, and throwing out absolute corpuscles of

matter--inter-atomic particles--with a velocity of 1120 feet per

second, in vacuo 20,000. The substance which is thus disseminated is a

part and parcel of the mass agitated, and if kept under this agitation

continuously would, in the course of a certain cycle of time, become

thoroughly absorbed by the atmosphere; or, more truly, would pass

through the atmosphere to an elevated point of tenuity corresponding

to the condition of subdivision that governs its liberation from its

parent body. The sounds from vibratory forks, set so as to produce

etheric chords, while disseminating their compound tones permeate most

thoroughly all substances that come under the range of their atomic

bombardment. The clapping of a bell in vacuo liberates these atoms

with the same velocity and volume as one in the open air; and were

the agitation of the bell kept up continuously for a few millions of

centuries, it would thoroughly return to its primitive element. If

the chamber were hermetically sealed, and strong enough, the vacuous

volume surrounding the bell would be brought to a pressure of many

thousands of pounds to the square inch, by the tenuous substance

evolved. In my estimation, sound truly defined is the disturbance

of atomic equilibrium, rupturing actual atomic corpuscles; and the

substance thus liberated must certainly be a certain order of etheric

flow. Under these conditions is it unreasonable to suppose that, if

this flow were kept up, and the body thus robbed of its element, it

would in time disappear entirely? All bodies are formed primitively

from this high tenuous ether, animal, vegetable and mineral, and

they only return to their high gaseous condition when brought under

a state of differential equilibrium.

As regards odour, continues Mr. Keely, 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 musk; which, if weighed after that

long interval, will be found to be not appreciably diminished. The

great paradox attending the flow of odorous particles is that they

can be held under confinement in a glass vessel! Here is a substance

of much higher tenuity than the glass that holds it, and yet it

cannot escape. It is as a sieve with its meshes large enough to pass

marbles, and yet holding fine sand which cannot pass through; in fact,

a molecular vessel holding an atomic substance. This is a problem

that would confound those who stop to recognize it. But infinitely

tenuous as odour is, it holds a very crude relation to the substance

of subdivision that governs a magnetic flow (a flow of sympathy, if

you please to call it so). This subdivision comes next to sound, but

is above sound. The action of the flow of a magnet coincides somewhat

to the receiving and distributing portion of the human brain, giving

off at all times a depreciating ratio of the amount received. It is a

grand illustration of the control of mind over matter, which gradually

depreciates the physical till dissolution takes place. The magnet on

the same ratio gradually loses its power and becomes inert. If the

relations that exist between mind and matter could be equated, and so

held, we would live on in our physical state eternally, as there would

be no physical depreciation. But this physical depreciation leads,

at its terminus, to the source of a much higher development--viz.,

the liberation of the pure ether from the crude molecular; which in

my estimation is to be much desired. Thus God moves in a simple way

His wonders to perform...."

When my theoretical exposé is finished and brought out, I shall

be ready for the attacks that will be made upon it, and able to

demonstrate what I assert. One would think that modern physicists,

knowing the lesson taught by the disastrous overthrow of the primitive

system of astronomy, would be somewhat cautious in reference to jeering

at any announcement of scientific research, however preposterous,

without first carefully weighing its claims. It is my belief that there

are many to-day who occupy positions as professors in our colleges and

in universities abroad, who for bigotry and ignorance can discount the

opinion of the religionists of the dark ages; 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 claims, in whatever garb it

may appear, welcoming whatever new message it may have to deliver....

Professor Rücker, in closing his address read at the meeting of the

British Association in 1891, said:--

"In studies such as these we are passing from the investigation of

the properties of ordinary matter to those of the ether, which may

perhaps be the material of which matter is composed. We may some day

be able to control and use it, as we now control and use steam."

For nearly fifteen years, Keely constructed engines of various models,

with this end in view, 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 with; and which he defines, in its present

operation, as a condition of sympathetic vibration associated with

the polar stream positively and negatively.

Should Keely succeed in controlling and directing this subtle energy,

we shall then be able to "hook our machinery on to the machinery

of nature." A writer in the Nineteenth Century says,--"Whether the

molecules or particles of what we know as matter are independent

matter, or whether they are ether-whirlpools; we know that they keep

up an incessant hammering one on another, and thus on everything

in space. Professor Crookes has shown that the forces contained in

this bombardment are immensely greater than any forces we have yet

handled.... It has also been found that the vibrations keep time in

some unknown way with the vibrations of solid matter."

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 music: "that Siberian bog where whole armies of scientific

musicians and musical men of science have sunk, without filling it

up." Helmholtz, it is said, has, by a series of daring strides,

made a passage for himself; while Keely stands alone in seeking

to build a solid causeway; over which all the nations of the earth

may pass in safety, to the "new order of things," that lies in this

"land of promise."

CHAPTER XIV.

VIBRATORY PHYSICS.--THE CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN MIND AND MATTER.

The elements of Nature are made of the will of God.--Hermes

Trismegistus.

Newton and Faraday have indicated how force instead of

leaping over nothing, acting at a distance, is transmitted

consecutively through the ethereal substance.

We must become as little children, not presuming to think of

causes efficient, or causes final; for these are things we

cannot grasp; but reverently and patiently waiting until,

like a revelation, the hidden link between the familiar

and the unfamiliar flashes into our mind, and thus an

additional step is gained in the endless series of successive

generalizations.--The Rev. H. W. Watson, F.R.S., President

of the Birmingham Philosophical Society.

All truth comes by inspiration.--Scripture.

There is but one Deity, the Supreme Spirit: he is of the same

nature as the soul of man.-- Vedic Theology.

As for truth it endureth and is always strong, it liveth and

conquereth for evermore.--Esdras.

Everything happens according to the will of God and has

its appointed time, which can neither be hastened nor

avoided.--Mohammed.

In the paper of the Rev. H. W. Watson, on "The Progress of Science,

its Conditions and Limitations," he tells us that every thinking man

recognizes the subjective Self and the objective non-Self, and that

this non-Self, so far as it manifests its existence through the senses,

is the object of investigation of natural philosophers; but he admits

that their investigations have not bestowed upon modern science any

results to justify the language of causation. Universal gravitation

is declared to be a vast generalization, telling us that there is

no more, but yet just as much, of mystery in the whole sequence of

astronomical phenomena, as in the most humdrum processes of every-day

experiences. The unfamiliar has been explained by the familiar, and

both remain in their original mystery. The mystery, attendant upon

gravitation, Kepler prophesied would be revealed to man in this age:

and the cautious and inductive investigations which Keely has been

pursuing, since 1888, have enabled him to demonstrate that the unknown

force, which for fifteen years had baffled all his skill, is the same

condition of sympathetic vibration which controls nature's highest and

most general operations:--the identical force which Faraday divined

when he wrote, in 1836: "Thus, either present elements are the true

elements, or else there is the probability before us of obtaining

some more high and general power of nature even than electricity,

and which at the same time might reveal to us an entirely new grade

of the elements of matter, now hidden from our view and almost from

our suspicion."

It was good advice given by the late Professor Clifford,--"Before

teaching any doctrine wait until the nature of the evidence can

be understood." But without attempting to teach Keely's system of

vibratory physics, we may look into some of his views, notwithstanding

the fact that, whatever truths there may be in them, they are

approached from such a different standpoint, than that of the platform

of mechanical physics, that it is utterly impossible to bring them

into any definite relations with each other. [13] Dr. Gérard, of Paris,

in his work on "Nervous Force," writes of this founder of a new system

of philosophy: "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 is, he

has had but to copy the delicate human mechanism to make a wonderful

discovery; probably, the greatest the world has ever known. The word

plagiarist has no deprecatory meaning as applied to the great American

inventor, for he must possess an extraordinary power of assimilation

to read so fluently the open book of nature, and to be able wisely

to interpret her admirable laws: it is, therefore, with profound

admiration that I here render homage to this man of science."

Dr. Gérard's work treats of the production of electricity in the nerve

centres, and its accumulation in storage. He says that fifty years

ago it would have been difficult to explain this fact intelligently;

but thanks to the scientific progress of the period, everyone now knows

how electricity is produced, and how applied, to use in lighting our

houses. He continues: "Let us say, then, in few words, how matters

stand, for it will serve to illustrate how it is with our brain, the

mechanism of which is precisely the same--only that our apparatus is

much more perfect and much less costly.

"A dynamo-electric machine is placed at any given spot; its object,

being put in action, is to withdraw from the earth its neutral

electricity, to decompose it into its two conditions and to collect,

upon accumulators, the electricity thus separated. As soon as the

accumulators are charged, the electricity is disposable; that is,

our lamps can be lighted. But what is marvellous in all this is that

the forces of nature can be transformed at will. Should we not wish

for light, we turn a knob and we have sound, heat, motion, chemical

action, magnetism. Little seems wanting to create intelligence,

so entirely do these accumulated forces lend themselves to all the

transformations which their engineer may imagine and desire. But let

us consider how greatly superior is our cerebral mechanism to all

invented mechanism. In order to light a theatre we require a wide

space, a dynamo-electric machine of many horse-power, accumulators

filling many receptacles, a considerable expense in fuel, and clever

mechanicians. In the human organism these engines are in miniature,

one décimêtre cube is all the space occupied by our brain; no wheels,

no pistons, nothing to drive the apparatus, we suffice ourselves. In

this sense, each of us can say, like the philosopher Biaz:--Omnia

mecum porto. Our cerebral organ not only originates motion, heat,

sound, light, chemical actions, magnetism; but it produces psychic

forces, such as will, reasoning, judgment, hatred, love, and the

whole series of intellectual faculties. They are all derived from

the same source, and are always identical to each other, so long as

the cerebral apparatus remains intact. The variations of our health

alone are capable of causing a variation in the intensity and quality

of our productions.

"With a maximum of physical and moral health, we produce a maximum of

physical and moral results. Our manual labour and our intellectual

productions are always exactly proportionate to the integrity of

our mechanism."

Dr. Gérard has, it will be seen, grasped the same truth that Buckle

enunciated in his lecture, The Influence of Women on the Progress of

Knowledge, when he affirmed that not one single discovery that had ever

been made has been connected with the laws of the mind that made it:

declaring that until this connection is ascertained our knowledge has

no sure basis, as "the laws of nature have their sole seat, origin,

and function in the human mind." This is the foundation stone of

vibratory physics, that all force is mind force.

All the forces of nature, writes Keely, proceed from the one governing

force; the source of all life, of all energy. These sympathetic flows,

or streams of force, each consists of three currents, harmonic,

enharmonic, and dominant; this classification governing all orders

of positive and negative radiation. The sympathetic flow called

"Animal Magnetism" is the transmissive link of sympathy in the fourth,

or inter-atomic, subdivision of matter. It is the most intricate of

problems to treat philosophically; isolated as it is from all approach

by any of the prescribed rules in "the orthodox scheme of physics." It

turns upon the interchangeable subdivision of inter-atomic acting

agency, or the force of the mind. The action of this etheric flow,

in substances of all kinds, is according to the character of the

molecular interferences which exist in the volume of their atomic

groupings. These interferences proceed from some description of atomic

chemical nature, which tend to vary the uniformity of structure

in the atomic triplets of each molecule. If these groupings were

absolutely uniform there would be but one substance in nature, and

all beings inhabiting this globe would be simultaneously impressed

with the same feelings and actuated by the same desires; but nature

has produced unlimited variety. Science, as yet, has not made so much

as an introductory attempt to solve this problem of "the mind flow,"

but has left it with the hosts of impostors, who always beset any

field that trenches on the land of marvel.