Science and the Infinite, or Through a Window in the Blank Wall.
London: William Rider & Son, 1912. First Edition - First Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. xvi + 184pp. Original red cloth gilt-lettered on spine and front board. B/w frontis. Aleister Crowley included "Science and the Infinite" in the Curriculum of his A.'. A.'., in Section I of the "General Reading" list: "Books for Serious Study": where he described it as "One of the best essays written in recent years." In a review in "The English Review" Crowley wrote further: "This book is of an importance which I think it would be hard to overrate. The two main religious tendencies of to-day are towards Science and Mysticism. Mr. Klein writes the two. ... Mr. Klein undermines our naive belief in Time and Space, and shows that to perfect knowledge there is only Here and Now. The Universe is a single instantaneous phenomenon. This conclusion is identical with that reached by the Mystic in the first of the really high trances, and with the doctrine taught in the more advanced schools of Shavism. We cannot too highly praise the manner whereby the ordinary educated mind is led to a perception of the Truth through simple and incontrovertible intellectual methods." Some light rubbing and discoloration to the cloth, endpapers darkened, first half a dozen pages quite darkened and foxed, small owner's stamp in blue with a Babylonian or Assyrian motif on the front free-endpaper and the title-page. Edges of text block darkened and flecked. A solid, about VG copy of a book that is quite uncommon in first edition (no dust jacket). Item #71000
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