Science of the Future : A Forecast 



partial expression and manifestation — by which 

 we can ultimately see things, as they are^ beholding 

 all creation, the animals, the angels, the plants, 

 the figures of our friends and all the ranks and 

 races of human kind, in their true being and order 

 — not by any local act of perception but by a cosmical 

 intuition and presence, identifying ourselves with 

 what we see ? Does there not exist a perfected 

 sense of Hearing — as of the morning-stars singing 

 together — an understanding of the words that are 

 spoken all through the universe, the hidden meaning 

 of all things, the word which is creation itself — 

 a profound and far pervading sense, of which our 

 ordinary sense of sound is only the first novitiate 

 and initiation ? Do we not become aware of an 

 inner sense of Health and of Holiness — the transla- 

 tion and final outcome of the external sense of 

 taste — which has power to determine for us abso- 

 lutely and without any ado, without argument 

 and without denial, what is good and appropriate 

 to be done or suffered in every case that can 

 arise ? 



And so on ; it is not necessary to say more. 

 If there are such powers in man, then there is 

 indeed an exact science possible. Short of it 

 there is only a temporary and phantom science. 

 *' Whatever is known to us by (direct) con- 

 sciousness," says Stuart Mill in his System of 

 Logic, " is known to us beyond possibility of 

 question ; " what is known by our local and 

 temporary consciousness is known for the moment 

 beyond possibility of question ; what is known 



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