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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
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beings come to an end before the completion of scientific enquiry, things must ever remain unknown is beside the point for that would not make them unknowable. That term, it will be seen, is not a synonymn for what is termed unknown, but possesses the additional attribute of never being known to any one, althougli capable enquiring minds exist and become engaged in the exploration of nature and the investigation of truth. Hence, if radium, wireless telegraphy, gramophone and other such discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century A. D. had remained for ever unknown because of the total destruction of knowing beings at the end of the eighteenth century, it wonld only have been a case of knownble things remaining unknown, but not of any of the unknowable sort! The fact is that without strict proof nothing can be taken to be a fact of existence, so that what can never be kuown by any one at any time will never be proved to have an existence. The unknownble, whether you spell it with a capital nor a small one, is thus a mere bug.bear invented by a slovenly metaphysics with which to frighten immature untrained novices. On the side of concrete nature, also, it is obvious that things affect one another and are known through their effects on others even when not perceivable by the senses, e. g., ether which is invisible but is known through its properties. Hence, to say that a thing can never he known is to say that it never enters into relations with any thing else in the universe throughout the unimaginably vast infinity of duration that is implied
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| SR No. | 006704 |
| Book Title | Confluence of Opposites |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Champat Rai Jain |
| Publisher | Champat Rai Jain |
| Publication Year | 1921 |
| Total Pages | 422 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 15 MB |