Amador ledger., 1908-10-02
SHORTCOMINGS oE SCIENCE.

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is not scientific in nature? Where
are the limits of positive study Is
the body of a bird really a more
scientific thing than its lustrous-
colored plumage aud its songY Is
the skeleton of pretty woman more
worthy of admiration than her
structure of flesh and her living
formY Is not the analysis of the
minds emotion scientific? ls 1t not
scientific tn try to find out whether
the mind can see Co a distance and in
what mannerY And then, how much
reason is there in this strange vanityP
That we imagine that science has told
us all that we know, all there is to
know, that our five senses are sufii d
oient to approve the nature of the
universe?
From what we can make out am mong
the forces acting about us -attrnction
heat. light, electrIcity-does it all
follow that there may not be other
forces which escape us, because we
have no senses to perceive themY
1t is not this hypothesis which Is
absurd; 1t is the simplicity of
pedants. We smile at the ideas of
the astronomers, philosophers and
theologians of three centuries ago.
Three centuries from now Will not
our successors laugh in turn at the
affirmation of those who pretend to
know everything now?
The distance from l'aris to London
is great for a man who can only walk,
and was even insurmountable before
boats we're invented; it is nothing to
electricity. The distance from the
earth to the moon is great with our
present ways of locomotion; it is
nothing to attraction-in fact, from
an absolute point of view, the space
which separates us from Sirius is not
greater part OF intinity than the
distance from Paris to Versailles, or
from your left eye TO your right.
The space which seems to exist
between the earth and the moon, or
between the earth and Mars, or even
between the earth and Sirius, is only
an illusion, though to the insutficiency
of our perceptions the moon acts
constantly upon the earth and moves
1t perpetually; the attraction of Mars
for our planet IS equally great, and
we in our turn disturb Mars in it's
course in su bm itting to the influence
of the moon. We act upon the sun
itself ard make it move as if we
touched it.
BY virtue of attraction the moon
causes the earth to turn every month
around the common center of
gravity, point which travels TOO
kilometers below the surface of the
globe. The earth causes the sun to
turn annually around its com mon
center of gravity, situated 456 kilo-
meters from the center of the sun.
All the worlds act upon each other
perpetually, so that there is no isoIa-
tion, no real separate between them.
Instead of being a void separating
the worlds from one another, space
is rather a connecting link.
Now. If attraction thus establishes
real peIpetual, active and indisput-
able comm u n ication between the
earth and it's sisters inimmensity, as
proved by the exactness OF astron-
omical obser vance, do not see by
what right pretend ded positivists can
declare that no communication can
be possible between two beings, more
or less distant from each other,
either on the earth or in two differ
ent worlds.
Can not two brains that vibrate in
unison at a distance of many kilo-
meters be moved by the same psychic
forces? Can not the emotion which
starts from brain reach a brain
vibrating it. no matter what distance,
| just as sound CROSSES a loom making
the strings of piano or violin
vibrate?
insist that it can and that also in
this case it will be proved that the
unknown of to-day is the truth of to-