Note 2 — Chapter XIV · VIBRATORY PHYSICS.—THE CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN MIND AND MATTER.

We call this the sphere of the natural; but, when we come to higher workings of natural laws, with which we are not familiar, we designate them as “supernatural;” and scientists witnessing some of Keely’s experiments, like those of overcoming gravity, of rotation of the needle of a compass,2 of the disintegration of water, etc., and not believing in any workings of laws unknown to them, followed in the footsteps, still unobliterated, of the narrow-minded, bigoted persecutors of Galileo; and have denounced Keely as “a modern Cagliostro.” When men of more extended research have been on the eve of investigating for themselves they have, until 1889, been deterred from doing so by the representations made to them that Keely was “using compressed air to humbug his audiences.” Until Professor Leidy and Dr. Willcox gave their attention to Mr. Keely’s claims as the discoverer of a new form of energy, the way was not open for Mr. Keely to disclose his conjectures, his hypotheses and his theories. Regrettable as this fact has seemed to be, it is now seen that any previous revelation of his discovery, other than to scientists, might have been premature; so little did Keely himself know, until within two years, of the developments he has at last reached in his work of evolution. The time was not ripe for the disclosure.