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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Science and the Infinite, by Sydney T. Klein This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Author: Sydney T. Klein Release Date: June 29, 2008 [eBook #25931] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCIENCE AND THE INFINITE*** E-text prepared by David Clarke, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) SCIENCE AND THE INFINITE Or Through a Window in the Blank Wall by SYDNEY T. KLEIN [Illustration: "THE MYSTERY OF THE APEX" VIEW NO. 3] Second Impression London William Rider & Son, Limited Cathedral House, Paternoster Row, E.C. 1917 First Published November 1912 Reprinted September 1917 TO THE RIGHT HON. ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR PREFACE In venturing to prepare this little volume for the eyes of the reading public, I am fully aware of the difficulties of the subject and the inadequacy of the expressions I have been able to employ, but I have made the attempt at the request of those who have found consolation in some of the thoughts herein embodied; and the messages left by others before they passed away, embolden me to hope that many others may find in this volume some points of interest which will help them to appreciate better the "joys" which this life has for those who know how to look for them, and that perhaps others may even gain a clearer conception of that which awaits us beyond the Veil. Many of us allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the small worries and vexations of everyday life, clothing them with a reality quite disproportionate to their importance; we are too apt to look at them, as it were, through a powerful microscope, piling power upon power of magnification, until we have made mountains out of mole-hills, whereas if we treated them at their true value we should look at them through a telescope, in the reverse direction, when they would appear not only trivial, but would be seen to be too remote to have any material effect on our lives. The sub-title of this volume, and
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