The economies, like the discoveries, were absolute, supersensual, occult; incapable of expression in horse-power.

经济，就像发现一样， 是绝对的、超感官的、神秘的； 无法用马力表达。

If this view was correct, the mind could gain nothing by flight or by fight; it must merge in its supersensual multiverse, or succumb to it.

如果这个观点是正确的，那么逃跑或战斗都不会使心灵获得任何收益；它必须融入其超感官的多元宇宙，或屈服于它。

At last their universe had been wrecked by rays, and Karl Pearson undertook to cut the wreck loose with an axe, leaving science adrift on a sensual raft in the midst of a supersensual chaos.

最终，他们的宇宙被射线摧毁了， 卡尔·皮尔逊 (Karl Pearson) 着手用斧头砍掉残骸， 让科学在超感官的混乱中漂浮在感官的木筏上。

For himself he knew, that, in spite of all the Englishmen that ever lived, he would be forced to enter supersensual chaos if he meant to find out what became of British science — or indeed of any other science.

就他自己而言，他知道，尽管曾经有那么多英国人，但如果他想弄清楚英国科学——或者实际上任何其他科学——的情况，他将不得不进入超感性的混乱状态。

The development of coal-power in the nineteenth century furnished the first means of assigning closer values to the elements; and the appearance of supersensual forces towards 1900 made this calculation a pressing necessity; since the next step became infinitely serious.

19 世纪煤电的发展提供了第一种为元素赋予更接近的值的方法；到 1900 年超感力的出现使这种计算成为迫切需要；因为下一步变得无限严肃。