Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vision, like all of Yeats's philosophizing, is full of tall talk. But it is the tall talk of a tall man, and one who drew himself up to his full Irish height to speak...
...such profound import that Yeats pressed her to continue the experiment. For over two years thereafter he was busy filling notebooks with what certain self-styled "instructors," writing or speaking through his wife's mediumship, had to tell him. When he finally pieced his notes together into A Vision,* Yeats felt satisfied that he had got hold of something that, grasped fully, would "explain the world...
Yeats never fully grasped the thought-system that came to him "from beyond" his own mind; and no reader of A Vision will succeed where its author failed. The book's symbolic diagrams need Yeats's mind to work them: they will not work at all for the majority who will find Yeats's synthetic occultism repellent. The book remains, nevertheless, a remarkable integration of Yeats's feel of himself with his knowledge of mankind. By its rules of thumb he was enabled to sharpen the edges of his knifelike insights into men's personalities...
Slowly the President's car drove along the little line of men wearing badges: "White House, May 15." He looked back and waved. The car turned the corner, and Franklin Roosevelt put aside the grim vision of 1918, faced the grim vision of 1940. The first responsibility of grim 1940 was preparedness against another war. For the leader of the richest nation on earth the easiest part of preparedness was money for that he went to Congress. Not so easy was the job of turning money into war material. That last week was his gravest unsolved problem for that...
Einstein's relativity, which burst on the world as a mathematical vision but which has accumulated many astronomical proofs through the years, explains mass, gravity, inertia, space and time, but not atoms and electric particles, which seem to perform in a bizarre, non-relativistic world of their own. Quantum mechanics, the mathematics of the atom, has developed apart from relativity. Physicists of broad beam feel, however, that this should...