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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: In justice to our authors, however, it should be remembered that
this assumption is put forth not as something scientifically
probable, but as something which for aught we know to the
contrary may possibly be true. This, to be sure, we need not
deny; nor if we once allow this prodigious leap of inference,
shall we find much difficulty in reaching the famous conclusion
that "thought conceived to affect the matter of another universe
simultaneously with this may explain a future state." This
proposition, quaintly couched in an anagram, like the discoveries
of old astronomers, was published last year in "Nature," as
containing the gist of the forthcoming book. On the
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
