Emery County Progress | 1906-07-28 | Page 4 | Science and the Occult

SCIENCE AN AND D THE OCCULT I 1 possibility that twentieth century knowledge will admit progress from the unknown ITyl known will twentieth century knowledge remove the prejudice against the oc cult astronomy and geology and chemistry thernis try are permitted to be in the hands of the man of science but life and mind phenomena are declared to be outside the province ot of physical science yet the same wag was said about astronomy and geology and chemistry not many generations ago was not war made upon those who undertook to show that the earth was not more than 6 years old and were not the chemists who showed how or ganic compounds could be formed be llevad to be enemies of the truth and bent on misleading mankind Is it not curious to contemplate that those who know least about a given science should be the ones to set its limits who know what cannot be done or hoped tor for so much better than those who devote their lives and their best endeavors to discover what Is true and what seems probable all the progress of science is a progress from the unknown that Is the hidden or the occult to the known which Is not hidden but patent perhaps the present century will be able effectually to aa warn everybody of the dan ger of setting any limits to knowl edge