12 INTRODUCTION 



that seer and saint and scholar have glimpsed each in 

 a way of his own. Upon this mighty pivot turns this 

 impressive volume. 



As befits a great problem reaching from infinity to 

 infinity, Miss Williams relates her theory of Creative 

 Involution to the large human issues of love and war 

 and education and art. She opens long vistas, 

 projecting a flying path from our every-day into the 

 frontiers of the Unknown a path that seems at 

 times to give us a foothold in reality and to show 

 from a height the harmony that pulses through the 

 many confusions and contradictions of our existence. 



The spirit of the book is gladdened by breezes from 

 Hyperspace ; and the large vision of it expands and 

 squares our "three-cornered" world, which is only 

 the surface of the four-dimensional universe. As we 

 turn these daring pages, we seem to be caught up by 

 cosmic currents the eternal currents that appear 

 to move through all things toward some higher issue, 

 some diviner evolution. 



In going over this unusual volume, I am pleased 

 by its clear, condensed and energetic style; but I 

 am even more pleased by its exalted ideal of the 

 meanings and issues of our existence. It is more 

 than a philosophy: it is an evangel, an apostolate. 

 It is the high-hearted gospel of a thoughtful, earnest 

 and consecrated spirit. 



E. M. 

 West New Brighton, N. Y., 



July, 1916. 



