The famous Keely motor, which has been hovering on the horizon of success for a decade, is but an attempt to repeat in an engine of metal the play of forces which goes on at the inmost focus of life, the human will, or in the cosmic spaces occupied only by the ultimate atoms. The engineer with his mallet shooting the cannon-ball by means of a few light taps on a receiver of depolarized atoms of water is only re-enacting the rôle of the will when with subtle blows it sets the nerve aura in vibration, and this goes on multiplying in force and sweep of muscle until the ball is thrown from the hand with a power proportionate to the one-man machinery. The inventor Keely seeks a more effective machinery; a combination of thousands of will-forces in a single arm, as it were. But he keeps the same vibrating principle, and the power in both cases is psychical. That is, in its last analysis.--George Perry.
One eternal and immutable law embraces all things and all times.--Cicero.
When the truth is made known, it will unwarp the complications of man's manufacture; and show everything in nature to be very simple.--David Sinclair, author of A New Creed.--Digby, Long & Co.
A gradual change seems to be taking place in the minds of the well-informed in reference to the discoverer of, and experimenter with, etheric force--John Worrell Keely--which will in time remove the burden of accusations from him to those who are responsible for the load which he has had to carry.
Those who know the most of Mr. Keely's philosophy, and of his inventions to apply this new force to mechanics, are the most sanguine as to his ultimate success. They say he is great enough in soul, wise enough in mind, and sublime enough in courage to overcome all difficulties, and to stand at last before the world as the greatest discoverer and inventor in the world:--that the hour demanded his coming--that he was not born for his great work before his appointed time. They predict that he will, with the hammer of science, demolish the idols of science; that the demonstration of the truth of his system will humble the pride of those scientists who are materialists, by revealing some of the mysteries which lie behind the world of matter; proving that physical disintegration affects only the mode, and not the existence, of individual consciousness.