Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-25
Professor Dubois i'm England.

sation has been created in the literary and
 scientific circles of England by the advent of
 Professor A. J. DuBois' lecture on "Science
 and the Supernatural" the same paper read
 by him before the Bridgeport Scientific soci-
 ety at the High school building year since
 and published in the Standard. A thousand
 copies were then published in pamphlet form
 by T. E. Peck, the expense being defrayed
 by subscriptions. The copies were generally
 gratuitOusly circulated, and, of these, thirty
 or more found their way to England ad-
 dressed to eminent scientists and literary
 men, Mrs. Hills, our city librarian, kindly
 furnishing the directions. Such high and cordial approval attended its recep- ton that, as the London Spectator expresses it, the ''singularly able essay on Science and the Supernatural, by Prof A. J. Dubois of the Sheffield Scientific society of Yale college has | been republished in England at the earnest desire of several college professors, by James Clark & Co.,, of Fleet street." The Specta- 1 tor further says in a three column review: ''It is pamphlet well worth reading, for ME Dubois knows precisely what he means and is endowed with the power of very clear perception. The general drift of his essay is clear enough, etc." In conclusion of the able review it states: ''He has undoubtedly achiev
 ed something in the way of Tightening the
 difficulty in the supposition that material nature corresponds to the constancy of the divine volition, much as the human body Corresponds to the inconsistency and fckle- ness of human volition." The Nonconform- ist and Independent heads a three and a half column notice with "An American Voice on Science and the Supernatural and adds, ''This is an admirable lecture, and we do not wonder at it's crossing the Atlantic and being presented by an English publishing house to English readers. It is of conspicuous ability, and is excellent for its tone of fairness and it's religious spirit. It reminds of The Unseen Universe in two points-its af6rma tion that metaphysical assumption underlies all scientific reasoning, which is by no means so purely empirical as some physicists believe it 10 be and it's assertion that the doctrine of continuity demands some
 thing more than matter and force in or
 der to explain physical changes. The argu- ment of the lecture, however, is an original one-personal thought, personal insight, per sonal earnestness are here in no ordinary measure"
 In further discussing the essay, Tyndsll,
 Huxley, Newton, Bushnell and other eminent
 authorities are quoted, and in closing the
 Nonconformist adds: ''We again express our
 admiration of the argument and method of
 this lecture, which we commend to the atten-
 tion of our readers. We note with satisfac-
 tion that Professor Dubois endorses Henry
 Drummond's dictum, that parallel phenome-
 na depend upon identical laws, although he
 does not, as Drummond does, cucumber the
 statement by adducing analogies that are
 fanciful and literary instead of natural and
 real"
 The London Christian World, however,
 gives the most extended notices, this jour
 nal having the largest circulation of any re-
 ligious. paper on the globe It begins with:
 Students of the laws of nature and of their
 relations to Christian evidence will hardly
 fail to have their attention drawn to the six
 penny pamphlet published from 13 Fleet
 street, entitled Science and the Supernatural,
 etc, etc. It is the opinion of 8 considerable
 number of the principals of our English
 colleges and other learned gentlemen. that
 in the views here presented will be found
 the solution of some of the most i'm
 portant and difficult problems of
 the time" It's caption in another notice Is
 Metaphysics from the Far West" and 1t
 continues with "A piece of stiff metaphysical
 thinking, lucid and pleasant reading enough
 for those who have natural aptitude for or eminent satisfaction in careful thought lies before us in the shape of proof sheets of an address on Science and the Supernatural de- ivered by Professor Dubois to the students of Yale college in the United States. These have been submitted with view to analytic scrutiny and critical estimate to about 8 score of erudite and lynx-eyed professors on this side of the Atlantic and have elicited their warm appreciation" This review, highly eulogistie and two columns long, is followed in another issue by one of four columns length, which foot note states is a Friendly confab between g country parson and well known physicist of strong agnos tic approclivities" on the lecture. It begins with Physicist; top of the morning to your reverence. Parson; with all heartiness, ditto to your worship. Physicist; I am come to thank you for the loan of Professor Du Bois' lecture on Science and the Supernatugal;a and next to have an hours stout talk over it's contents. Despite it's ominous title, found it as smart and suggestive a tit-bit as I had read for many day. In fact it fairly stag gered me for the moment, and still haunts me like a spectre. Parson; I am delighted though not in the least surprised" etc., etc.
 Professor Dubois, than whom our Scien- tifc society has no member of whom it feels more proud, should be inspired by these em- phatic approvals of his great effort, to fur ther like expositions, and nowhere will his | career be watched with greater interest than by his many admirers in this city. Professor Dubois will repeat his lecture at the Anthon Memorial church, New York, Rev. Heber Newton, rector, on Sunday Levening, May 30 -Bridgeport Standard.