Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    118/282 page 102
    must imagine ourselves to be in complete ignorance of the rank of this life. Dr. Hermann St offkraft.—Well, we are agreed there must be life in the Unseen, of the nature of which, let us say, we are ignorant. Let us therefore confine ourselves to those points where possibly the Unseen has come in contact with ourselves, and try to discover whether they afford us any means of judging of the nature of that life which resides in the U nseen. Stephen Fair bank.—By all means—let us do so. Dr. Hermann Stofkraft.—Now, as the visible universe was developed from the Un- seen, and as development implies a progress from less to more complex, I conclude that life exists in the Unseen in an extremely simple state, even simpler than that which continuity leads me to associate with the atom and a fortiori much simpler than life as we recog- nise it in the human beinof. o Stephen Fairbanks—Your statement, Doctor,
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image