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Excerpt from Ideal Metrology in Nature, Art, Religion and History Ages long ago men reckoned the cycles of nature by numbers, and numbers became symbols of natural law and Of Spiritual ideals manifested in nature. Ancient students had a double grasp of the Divine order of things, it was physical and spiritual. As then so now, the true study of nature is a search for Divine thought, the Divine ideal that is veiled in material forms and relations. DO the mathematical terms that express these relations reveal the ideal? The threads of a woven fabric may not separately exhibit the ideal Of its design, but taken together in their orderly rela tion they do. If we discover intelligible relations in one department of the activities of nature we may well believe that we have touched the ideal of design; but if we find the same ideal in many departments, though modified like the instrumental variations played by the artist in executing a score of music, we may rationally believe in a unity of design coupled with a manifold purpose. The harmony is one throughout. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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