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                       KEELY AND HIS DISCOVERIES

                           AERIAL NAVIGATION


                                   BY
                         Mrs. BLOOMFIELD MOORE


  The universe is ONE. There is no supernatural: all is related, cause
  and sequence. Nothing exists but substance and its modes of motion.

                                Spinoza.

                                 LONDON
                KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., Ltd.
                 PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD
                                  1893









        John Stuart Mill, in order to protect science, carried
        empiricism to its extreme sceptical consequences, and thereby
        cut the ground from under the feet of all science.--Professor
        Otto Pfleiderer, D.D.

        The word of our God shall stand for ever.--Isa. xl. 8.

        Imagination is wholly taken captive by the stupendous
        revelation of the God-force which modern conceptions of
        the Cosmos furnish. Through the whole universe beats the
        one life-force, that is God, controlling every molecule
        in the petal of a daisy, in the meteoric ring of Saturn,
        in the remotest nebula that outskirts space, as though
        that molecule were the universe. In each molecule and atom
        God lives and moves and has His being, thereby sustaining
        theirs.... Prophet after prophet cries, and psalmist after
        psalmist sings, that so indeed he has found it; that therein
        is the divine sonship of man, therein the assurance of eternal
        life.--Rev. R. A. Armstrong.

        The living man with his interior consciousness of self and
        individuality is on two planes of nature at once, as a ship
        is in two media at once, half in the water and half in the
        air. To manage your ship successfully you must take cognizance
        of the laws governing each of those media. To deal successfully
        with your human being you must understand his physiology
        no doubt, but you must equally understand his psychology,
        and something of the collateral phenomena of nature in those
        regions or planes to which the phenomena of the psychic man
        belong.--A. P. Sinnett.

        The splendid generalizations of our physicists and our
        naturalists, have had for me an enthralling and entrancing
        interest. I find as I look out on the world, in the light of
        all this new knowledge, a pressure of God upon consciousness
        everywhere; and if this physical force which is God, moves
        through, sustains, communes, with each smallest physical
        atom of the whole, much more must that conscious energy
        which is God, move through, sustain, commune with, these
        conscious atoms, these several monads, which are you and I,
        and our friend, and our brother far away. The even flow of
        the divine force through every material atom, which is the
        supreme revelation of physical science in our time, itself
        leads irresistibly on to the suggestion of the constant flow
        of spiritual energy in actual communion with every spiritual
        monad that there is. It becomes but a question of opening the
        eyes of the soul, unstopping the ears of the inward spirit,
        to see and hear the God who in us also surely lives and moves
        and has His being, thereby sustaining ours. As the physical
        atom is physically touched and held and thrilled by God,
        it is what we should expect that the conscious monad, no
        less should be consciously touched and held and thrilled by
        Him.--Rev. R. A. Armstrong.


            "Euroclydon driveth us--where?
              On quicksands and shoals of the sea,
            On rocks that wait hungry to tear
              And devour with tigerish glee.

            "But lo! where we land tempest-tost
              Is the work that has waited our hand;--
            Not one step of that life shall be lost
              Whose way an All-seeing hath planned."


        We never know through what divine mysteries of compensation
        the Great Father of the Universe may be carrying out His
        sublime plans.--Miss Murdoch.

        Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and Truth accomplishes
        no victory without it.--Bulwer Lytton.

        Science is bound by the everlasting law of honour to face
        every problem fearlessly.--Lord Kelvin.

        For my part, I too much value the pursuit of truth and the
        discovery of any new fact in nature, to avoid inquiry because
        it appears to clash with prevailing opinions.--Wm. Crookes,
        F.R.S.

        The secret of success is constancy to purpose.--Lord
        Beaconsfield.


            The simple peasant who observes a fact
            And from a fact deduces principles,
            Adds social treasure to the public wealth.

            Facts are the basis of Philosophy.
            Philosophy is the harmony of facts
            Seen in their right relations.--Lyrics of a Golden Age.









                               DEDICATED

                                   TO

                JAMES DEWAR, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.

  FULLERIAN PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, R.I. JACKSON PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY
                             OF CAMBRIDGE,

              IN ADMIRATION OF HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES

                              FOR SCIENCE,

                 AND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS

                    PROLONGED AND STEADFAST INTEREST

                     IN KEELY'S WORK OF EVOLUTION.

          12, Great Stanhope Street, Mayfair, 16th May, 1893.









CONTENTS.


                                                            PAGE

    Preface.--By the Rev. John Andrew                         xi

    Introduction                                              xv

    CHAPTER I. 1872-1882.

    Introductory                                               1

    CHAPTER II. 1882-1886.

    Ether the True Protoplasm, An Epitome of Macvicar's
    Sketch of a Philosophy                                    11

    CHAPTER III. 1885-1887.

    The Nature of Keely's Problems                            30

    CHAPTER IV. 1887.

    Sympathetic Vibratory Force                               41

    CHAPTER V.

    Etheric Vibration.--The Key Force                         54

    CHAPTER VI.

    The Fountain Head of Force                                65

    CHAPTER VII.

    The Key to the Problems.--Keely's Secrets                 72

    CHAPTER VIII. 1888.

    Helpers on the Road, and Hinderers                       101

    CHAPTER IX. 1889-1890.

    Keely supported by Eminent Men of Science.--Aerial
    Navigation                                               113

    CHAPTER X. 1881-1891.

    The Keely Motor Bubble.--Macvicar's Logical Analysis     129

    CHAPTER XI. 1890.

    Vibratory Sympathetic and Polar Flows.--Keely's
    Contributions to Science                                 145

    CHAPTER XII.

    Vibratory Physics.--True Science                         167

    CHAPTER XIII.

    "More Science"                                           186

    CHAPTER XIV.

    Vibratory Physics.--The Connecting Link between
    Mind and Matter                                          206

    CHAPTER XV.

    The Philosophy of History.--Keely the Founder of a
    System                                                   229

    CHAPTER XVI. 1891.

    An Appeal in Behalf of the Continuance of Keely's
    Researches                                               238

    CHAPTER XVII. 1891.

    More of Keely's Theories.--His Traducers exposed         265

    CHAPTER XVIII.

    A Pioneer in an Unknown Realm                            285

    CHAPTER XIX.

    Latent Force in Interstitial Spaces.--Electro-Magnetic
    Radiation.--Molecular Dissociation.
    By John Ernst Worrell Keely                              298

    CHAPTER XX. 1892.

    Progressive Science.--Keely's Present Position.--A
    Review of the Situation                                  319

    CHAPTER XXI.

    Faith by Science: The Dawn of a New Order of Things      332

    CONCLUSION.

    Keely's Physical Philosophy.--By Professor D. G.
    Brinton, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania         358

    Appendix I.                                              365

    Appendix II.                                             368

    Appendix III.                                            370

    Verses                                                   373









PREFACE.

By the Rev. John Andrew, of Belfast.

"Wait on the Lord."


When the Almighty is taking men into His deeper confidence as to His
Creation ways, and how His ways may be taken advantage of for man's
service and benefit, the gifted one through whom such revealing is
being made should not be hurried by the common bustle of the world,
but should be protected in the privacy where the Creator and he
are closeted together in the giving and receiving which is thus
transpiring.

Scientific patience is, in all such cases, imperative. When the gifted
one is bustled by the world, as Mr. Keely has been, his inspiration
is disturbed and his advance hindered. If the first inkling of some
great revealing thus in progress should promise some mighty find for
the material advantage of mankind, there is naturally a quickened
desire to gain possession; but if in such an event impatience should
impel the seer, ere his far-visioned sight has reached the end,
deplorable delay may be the result.

This is the thing which has happened in the case which this little
volume comes forth to relate and explain. It is not intended to unfold
the systematic methods of the gifted genius concerning whom it speaks;
that will come, in his own words, in due time. The aim of this volume
is to show the course of events in relation to his researches; and to
open the mystery of how it came about that he should have been so much
misunderstood and hindered. It tells how he, in the dim dawn of initial
inspiration, first glimpsed and touched The Power which is about to
be given to the possession of mankind for the supply of wants, and
the relief of toil. How he struggled and wrestled like the patriarch
of old who said, "I will not let Thee go, except Thou bless me." How
men of the world, seeing the struggle and estimating the power, said,
"Make haste and harness this power to our machinery, and we shall
pay you." How, in his need of means, he was tempted and fell; making
an attempt to harness to machinery a power whose very form and kind
he had not yet been given to discern. And then, when this too hasty
attempt had failed, how the disappointed world laughed and mocked,
and fumed, and called him an impostor.

This volume seeks to explain this Keely Mystery; and to show that
although a mistake was made, it was only a passing mistake. The
mistake has been rectified; and the seer, now in possession of peace
and privacy, has fully sighted the power, and is making progress in
bringing it into subjugation.

He has been interviewed by competent men, men of enlarged scientific
vision; and in the protection of their esteem, and by the liberal
pecuniary aid of one who has made scientific interests an object
of sacred solicitude, Mr. Keely is likely to succeed in opening
to the world another of the stores which the Almighty Creator and
Preserver, ever provident of His children's needs, has prepared in
reserve against the time of their necessity. We may theorize, but God
alone knows the means by which the regeneration of mankind, and the
establishment of the kingdom of righteousness and peace shall come
about. The