Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Aviation gives us the swiftest mode of transportation ever known to mankind. No bird that flies can soar so high nor fly so fast. From the aviator the scientist has learned about the temperature above, about the gale that blows eastward at terrific speed seven or eight miles above the sea, about the pressure to human heart and tissues which high altitudes bring. From the aviator the world has learned that armies on land and navies at sea have met their master. The next great conflict between nations will be decided by their superiority...
...adverse opinions of one such investigator to the exclusion of others equally if not more than equally able to judge the matter. In regard to the physical and other phenomena of psychical research it cannot be said too strongly, though it ought to be quite evident, that the true scientist investigates only under conditions which preclude fraud, and never allows himself to trust the honestly of the person he is examining. The CRIMSON refers to Dr. Hall's statement that 'physical manifestations dependent upon mediums can all be produced fraudulently.' It is inconceivable that a realization of what the scientific...
...refreshing at last to seen an eminent psychologist overcome his felling of courtesy and veneration for out guest, Sir Oliver Lodge to the extent of expressing the true views of a scientist on the question of spiritism. Professor G. Stanley Hall is President of Clark university and has devoted his life to the scientific study of the mind. Unlike so many who are antagonistic to spiritism, he does not rail against mediums and spirit-rappings in genera. but clearly shows that as yet no sound proof of the existence of an after-life through spirits has been demonstrated. Every...