Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"The phenomena are actually witnessed, mysterious in their nature - generally and perhaps wrongly termed spiritual - it is now idle to deny.   Allowing a large discount for clever fraud, what remains is quite serious enough to demand the careful scrutiny of science. "E pur se muove", the sentence spoken ages since, has passed [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"Not many years ago, the person who questioned the infallibility of some theological dogma was branded at once an iconoclast and an infidel. Vae victis!...Science has conquered. But in its turn the victor claims the same infallibility, though it equally fails to prove its right.   "Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis", the saying [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"The same holds good with everything else. If psychology had had its Darwin, the descent of man as regards moral qualities might have been found inseparably linked with that of his physical form.   Society in its servile condition suggests to the intelligent observer of its mimicry a kinship between the Simia and human beings [...]