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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