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...proofs are still unconvincing to such a scientist as Steinmetz, who declares: " It is obvious that the alleged manifestations of spiritism must be fake, or self-deception, since they are manifestations of energy." Steinmetz holds the Kantian philosophy, that the noumenal world (of spirit) and the phenomenal world (of matter and energy) are absolutely separate realms of experience. Conan Doyle says that " nothing is as dogmatic as science." He has finished his lectures in New York and will tour the United States showing his "spirit photographs." The "new church" may or may not spring up in his wake...
...untidy family advisor is more a remnant of the days when the efficacy of herbs was thought to lie in the incantations breathed over them by the "medicine man" and when exposure to the moon often brought a deathly sickness. It was the spirit of the French scientist which drove malaria out of Cuba, and which acting through the men trained in the medical schools may yet discover the cause of sleeping sickness and combat the plague in the East which is now wining out whole towns of India. Dr. Thayer, himself a member of the French Academy and actively...
LITTLE LIFE STORIES?Sir Harry Johnston?Macmillan ($2.00). Sir Harry, explorer, scientist and novelist, has at last elected to stand on his own literary feet. And he is much more successful than when he chose simply to bask in the light of the illustrious?as in The Gay-Dombeys and Mrs. Warren's Daughter. He gives us here a succession of little skeletons, grinning and staring. They are little not in their power but in Sir Harry's manner toward them. He is like a good-natured child playing with dynamite. Bitter, ironic outlines these, which are passed...
...just that nations should reward those who sacrifice so much in their defence, and there is little complaint to make on this score. But how long has it been since a noted British scientist bitterly accused his government of casting its geniuses on the scrap-heap." His point is too fully confirmed by history; it is Turner who dies in poverty, not Wellington; Socrates who drinks the hemlock, not Pericles...
...twentieth century learning. With the coming of the Renaissance men's minds were stimulated and enlivened by a multitude of new emotions and discoveries. The student strove for omniscience no less than the artist or the man of letters. Leonardo da Vinci was, in his day, as great a scientist and engineeer as he was a painter. In the field of science, however, his work has been superseded, while his painting still lives; so we are prone to forget that in his lifetime he spent almost as much time at one as at the other. Even in the Renaissance...