force into space

He stepped with force into space. he panorama below him was breath-taking: Earth seemed almost to hit him in the face.

It is like a gymnast who clings first to his trapeze bar in order to fling himself afterwards with full force into space.

Schoolmen as well as mystics would not believe that matter was what it seemed,—if, indeed, it existed;—unsubstantial, shifty, shadowy; changing with incredible swiftness into dust, gas, flame; vanishing in mysterious lines of force into space beyond hope of recovery; whirled about in eternity and infinity by that mind, form, energy, or thought which guides and rules and tyrannizes and is the universe.