The Mystery Of Matter And Other Essays

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Excerpt from The Mystery of Matter: And Other Essays When a gradual landslip occurs on a great scale, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood are naturally anxious to know how far the movement may possibly extend, and what is likely to be the level of ultimate settle ment. So, at the present day, when faith's centre of gravity is slowly but surely moving away from tradi tion and authority to some position of more stable equilibrium, all of us, when not rendered absolutely incoherent by alarm, have a reasonable wish to fore cast the final result, or, at all events, to be assured of some limits beyond which the movement cannot extend. Of course, there can be no finality in Opinion or knowledge. For even ascertained facts are always showing fresh aspects, or unfolding new meanings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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