ATOM, FORM OF, KEELY
Text: "To comprehend the form of even the atom is to take the introductory or first step toward understanding the eternity (infinity of time) of duration of matter. But to attempt to comprehend the neutral center - the compound etheric or seventh subdivision - is attempting to comprehend the Infinite, for although it is a point and has substance, it is so small that if it were enlarged to the size of the sun, its structure would not be visible under the highest power microscope that can be constructed. No process of mathematics can comprehend or measure such minuteness, for it transcends both logic and computation. Molecules, intermolecules, atoms, interatoms, etherons, interetherons, can be represented by progressive degrees of tenuity, although the degree of tenuity of the latter four is such as we cannot comprehend because we have not and cannot sense them, but the neutral center, with its marvelous properties, its infinite power, is as incomprehensible to our minds as the aggregate power, mass and extension of the objective Universe. We may measure the outreach of the progressive subdivisions to and including the neutral center, but to attempt to comprehend its properties and powers is to attempt to cross a bridge of mist. No attribute of mind linked with crude molecular matter can actually comprehend the neutral center." "Harmonic sympathetic evolution indicates the atom is of wonderfully complex structure. The progressive disintegratory steps in the molecular and intermolecular fields also indicates wonderfully complex structure of those subdivisions." [Snell Manuscript]
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