Science of the Future : A Forecast 



begins in the material eye, grows and deepens 

 inwardly till the consciousness of it pervades 

 the whole body and mind with a kind of inward 

 illumination or divine Reason, showing the 

 places of all things and enfolding the sense 

 of beauty in itself. The sense of Warmth in 

 the same mannre is related to and leads up to 

 Love ; and Sound, in the voices of our friends or 

 the divine chords of music, has passed away from 

 being an external phenomenon and has established 

 itself as the language of our most tender and inti- 

 mate emotions. 



All the senses thus, as they develop and deepen, 

 are found to unite in the very focus of individual 

 life. Slowly, and through long experience, their 

 relation to each other, their very meaning unfolds, 

 or will unfold ; and as this process takes place 

 the man knows himself one^ a unity, of which the 

 various faculties are the different manifestations. 

 Then further through his less localised feelings 

 or more glorified senses the individual finds his 

 relation to other individuals. Through his loves 

 and hatreds, through his senses of attraction, 

 repulsion, cohesion, solidarity, order, justice, 

 charity, right, wrong and the rest — these feelings, 

 each like the others deepening back more and 

 more as time goes on — he gradually discovers 

 his true and abiding relationship to other indi- 

 viduals, and to the divine society of which they 

 all form a part — and so at last, if we may venture to 

 say so, his relationship to the absolute and uni- 

 versal. At present, since our most important 



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