Even In Our Day, Science Suspects Beyond

The More Thou Dost Advance, The More Thy Feet Pitfalls Will Meet.

The Mind Is The Slayer Of The Real, Let The Disciples Slay The Slayer.

When Science Shall Have Effectually Demonstrated To Us The Origin Of Matter, And Proved The Fallacy Of The Occultists And Old Philosophers Who Held (as Their Descendants Now Hold) That Matter Is But One Of The Correlations Of Spirit, Then Will The World Of Skeptics Have A Right To Reject The Old Wisdom, Or Throw The Charge Of Obscenity In The Teeth Of The Old Religions.

Never Allow Any Unnecessary Or Vain Thought To Occupy Your Mind. This Is More Easily Said Than Done. You Cannot Make Your Mind A Blank All At Once. So In The Beginning Try To Prevent Evil Or Idle Thoughts By Occupying Your Mind With The Analysis Of Your Own Faults, Or The Contemplation Of The Perfect Ones.

"true Science Has No Belief," Says Dr. Fenwick, In Bulwer-lytton's 'strange Story;' "true Science Knows But Three States Of Mind: Denial, Conviction, And The Vast Interval Between The Two, Which Is Not Belief, But The Suspension Of Judgment." Such, Perhaps, Was True Science In Dr. Fenwick's Days. But The True Science Of Our Modern Times Proceeds Otherwise; It Either Denies Point-blank, Without Any Preliminary Investigation, Or Sits In The Interim, Between Denial And Conviction, And, Dictionary In Hand, Invents New Graeco-latin Appellations For Non-existing Kinds Of Hysteria!