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Through such insight we are enabled to enter and explore that subsensible world into which all natural phenomena strike their roots, and from which they derive nutrition.

Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

This is more evidently the case in a theory like that of light, where the motions of a subsensible medium, the ether, are presented to the mind.

Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856

Here his power of transfer from the sensible to the subsensible would render it easy for him to suppose the light-particles animated, not only with a motion of translation, but also with a motion of rotation.

Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856

We find, accordingly, in this career of optics the greatest minds constantly yearning to break the bounds of the senses, and to trace phenomena to their subsensible foundation.

Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856

It must be able to form definite images of the things which that world contains; and to say that, if such or such a state of things exist in the subsensible world, then the phenomena of the sensible one must, of necessity, grow out of this state of things.

Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856

To realise this subsensible world the mind must possess a certain pictorial power.

Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856

This was the physical theory of light enunciated and defended by Newton; and you will observe that it simply consists in the transference of conceptions, born in the world of the senses, to a subsensible world.

Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856

This is the storehouse from which its materials are derived; and the magic of its art consists, not in creating things anew, but in so changing the magnitude, position, grouping, and other relations of sensible things, as to render them fit for the requirements of the intellect in the subsensible world. [

Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856