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"The deeper the research of the modern explorer, the more often he comes face to face with the discoveries of the ancients. Does Elie de Beaumont, the great French geologist, venture a hint upon the terrestrial circulation, in relation to some elements in the earth's crust, he finds himself anticipated by the old philosophers. Do [...]

"The forgoing, added to the wonderful confessions of science and what we have just quoted from the Unseen Universe, throw an additional lustre on the wisdom of the long departed ages. In one of the preceding chapters we have alluded to a quotation from Cory's translation of Ancient Fragments, in which it appears that one [...]

"So far back as 1856, a man considered a savant in his days - Dr. Jobard of Paris - had certainly the same ideas as the authors of the Unseen Universe, on ether, when he startled the press and the world of science by the following declaration: "I hold a discovery which frightens me. There [...]

"Taking the ground that "the visible universe must certainly, in transformable energy, and probably in matter, come to an end", and "the principle of continuity...still demanding a continuance of the universe..." the authors of this remarkable work find themselves forced to believe "that there is something beyond that which is visible...and that the visible system [...]