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Both generalities have a magnificent dramatic sweep, and both contain elements of truth. Just why seventy-five per cent of all college students go to college is one of the eternal mysteries which high Heaven and Conan Doyle alone can solve. For the most part, it seems due to tradition, a sense of the irreducible social minima, and a praiseworthy spirit of noblesse oblige; or it may be a vague present satisfaction of future desires, a faint, presaging indication of that moral awakening which in the opinion of a prominent school of psychological thought the final development of the perfect...
...Moscow journal said: "We publish books and pamphlets about Marxism and our great revolution. We encourage young authors to interpret its spirit and inspire the masses. We even issue cheap editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining why O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Jack London and Upton Sinclair are more popular than Russian authors, the newspaper continued: "It is because old Russian literature is out of date, and the new is dry, dull or too subtle for mass com-prehension...
...described as "brownies" urged him to build the Kansas City Southern, the shortest line from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico. No sooner was this task completed than the same "brownies" became insistent that he run another line from Kansas, southwest, into Mexico. Stilwell even consulted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who declared that "spirits" were directing his work...
...vast inland wilderness surounding the uncertain juncture of Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil gives the impression of being as well known to the world as the valley of the Mississippi. On the contrary, few white men have ever penetrated it. Here are the scenes of all sorts of fantastic romances, like Conan Doyle's The Lost World and W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions. Here is the fascinating stream called the Casiquiare, reputed to flow both ways and to connect the Rio Negro, largest northern tributary of the Amazon, with the Orinoco. Here nations have not yet ceased to dispute...
There is a temptation to say that they are merely a few of the "doubting Thomases" who make up the over-whelming majority of a skeptic world. Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle have not yet persuaded the rest of humanity of the reality of ectoplasm, even though they have secured many staunch followers for their ideas. Nobody really knows one way or the other that is admitted. Everyone is interested in the idea of thought-transference and future existence--man may be said to have incurably necromantic tendencies--but unless the knightly necromancers establish something definitely soon...