Tertium Organum



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hidden side of life,
i.e. it finds 
that this hidden side consists of electro-magnetic phenomena and is becoming 
gradually revealed to us, and that the progress of science consists in a gradual 
unveiling of the hidden. 
'This is not known 
as yet,'
says a positivist when he is shown something 'hidden', 
'but it will be known. Science, proceeding on the same lines it has been following so 
far, will discover that too. After all, five hundred years ago people in Europe knew 
nothing about the existence of America; seventy years ago no one knew of the 
existence of bacteria; twenty-five years ago they knew nothing about radium. But 
America, bacteria and radium are all discovered now. In the same way, and by the 
same means, and only by these means, will be discovered everything that generally is 
to be discovered. Apparatus is being perfected, the methods, means and observations 
are becoming more delicate. Things which could not be even suspected a hundred 
years ago have now become generally known and generally understood facts. If 
anything can be known at all, it will become known precisely by this method.' 
Thus speak adherents of the positivist view of the world, but their reasonings are 
based on the deepest illusion. 
This assertion of positivism would be quite correct if science moved uniformly in all 
the directions of the unknown; if there were no sealed doors for it; if a multitude of 
questions, 
fundamental 
questions, did not remain just as obscure as in the times when 
no science existed at all. We see that whole vast regions are closed to science, that it 
has 
never
penetrated them and, what is worse, has made 
no step
in the direction of 
these regions. 


There are a great many questions towards the understanding of which 
science has made 
no movement at all, 
many questions among which a 
modern scientist, armed with all his knowledge, is as helpless as a savage or
as a four-year-old child. 
Such are the questions of life and death, the problems of time and space, 
the mystery of consciousness, and so on, and so on. 
We all know this, and all we can do is - try not to think about the existence 
of these questions, to forget about them. And this is what we usually do. Still, 
this does not do away with the questions. They continue to exist, and at any 
moment we may turn to them and test by means of them the steadiness and 
strength of our 
scientific method. 
And every time, at such an attempt, we see 
that our scientific method is of no value for these questions. By means of it 
we can establish the chemical composition of distant stars; photograph the 
human skeleton invisible to the eye, invent floating mines which can be 
controlled at a distance by electric waves and destroy at once hundreds and 
thousands of lives. But by this method we cannot say what a man sitting next 
to us is thinking about. No matter how much we weigh, photograph or sound 
the man, we shall 
never 
find out his thoughts, 
until he himself 
tells US.
BUT THIS IS A DIFFERENT METHOD ALTOGETHER. 
The sphere of action of the methods of exact science is strictly limited. This 
sphere is - the world of direct experience accessible to man. Exact science 
with its method has 
never
penetrated and 
will never penetrate
the world 
which lies beyond the boundaries of the ordinary organic experience. 
Expansion of objective knowledge is possible only with an expansion of 
direct experience. But in spite of all the growth of objective sciences, science 
has not made a single step in this direction, and the boundary line of 
experience 

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