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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
        Bea