The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-27

there was the futher consideration tnat
the experiment would be intensely inter
cstiug to scientists and thoughtful people
the world over. This, too, was thought
that had great weight with Mr.. Ingersoll,
as with him it was a cardinal article or
faith that the people do think or at
least are beginning TO think little bit"
One Serious Obstacle.
One tremendous difficulty seemed to
stand in the way of the novel adventure
intended by Mr.. Ingersou for his soul
This he intimated, was the opposition
which he anticipated from his family.
The interested band of youthful medlcos
was aware of his wfe's and his daugh-
ter's remarkable personal devotion to the
colonel and his views. Therefore these as
eiduous inquisitors very quickly realized
what a shock it would be TO the devoted
ones to contemplate their only idol
soul going through freezing process as
low as 200 degrees below zero. AT this
low level of the thermometer the extremes
of heat and cold are said to meet and TO
become undistinguishable sensations, just
as theology AYERS that the same two eie-
ments meet and unity in the orthodox
Christian hell. To have to admit that
the fond parent and husband who laughed
at the Christian he'll during his lifetime
had precipitated his own soul into an
artificial hell of exactly similar tortur
ing power was too dreadful an ordeal for
the agnostic leader to ask his family TO
endure.
Because of their feelings of delicacy on
this point DR.. Thoren says that he and
his student friends were quite ready to
let the conversation drop But the colonel
pursued his theme and told how he pro
posed 10 obviate in measure all the
difficulties in his path by publishing a
pamphlet or magazine article in which
he would suggest that the time was ripe
for experiments in soul liquefaction and
for that purpose would set forth or init
mate the offer of his own soul at death.
Through the mysterious workings of an
inscrutable fate he was not however,
given sufficient length of life for the work.
ing out of his plans. And he died with
out making a practical move-so far as
known-toward the realization of a con-
ceptOn as original and daring as any ac-
credited to poet or alchemst of the an
cient schools or to those wizards of sci
ence whose discoveries in the matter of
unraveling natures mysteries have BE-
come the marvel of the present genera
ton.
Yes, it is undoubtedly true that Col.
Ingersou conversed with several students
on the subject of soul liquefaction," said
DR.. Thoren at the Cook County Hospital
last evening. Not being IN sympathy
with his views 1 did not, however, pay
no doubt deserved. Still I can recall how
he clearly gave the impression that he
thought experiments with a view to the
liquefaction Of the dying breaths of HUI
man beings and OF the lower animals
should be inaugurated for the sake of the
scientific data to be SO obtained He
even intimated that he was contemplate
ing some arrangements for having lhc
liquefying processes applied to his own dy-
ing breath. As 1 understand the mat
ter, no practical step, such as the desIg-
nation of any scientists TO make the ex-
pertinent, had at the time been taken In
fact the very idea itself seemed merely
the floating conception of a busy brain.
He certainly spoke in all sincerity and
when the rumors Of his mental decline
were recalled very many in that party on
the stage at Studebaker's felt that they
perceived how such rumors originated"
From data supplied by John NJ Nc
Mynn the liquid air expert Of the Rookery
building. IL has been calculated that the
last breath Of an adult human being in
the death throes would, when liqufied
amount TO something less than the filing
OF a one-inch VIAL or. in SEMI fluid mass.
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