The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-24
FAMOUS FRENCH ASTRONOMER
INVITING WRATH OF ENEMIES

perhaps because l was Ar American.
All t~Tench!nen are glad 20 meet ali
Americans.
Animal Magnetism.
examination possesses in high de-
gree what is grossly called animal
magnetism. l am told he is very
gray now. but at the TING l met him
his ample hair and full beard were
very dark. his dark eyes penetrating
and fascinating. literally and rnysteri-
ouslv attracting as the needle is al.
tracte! by the magnetic pole. Exceed
ing pleasing. cordial and c~ongenial.
even TO the humblc seeker OF him.
we had a delightful conversation in
rr!ation 20 his work. his methods. his
striving To drag 70 light hidden things.
ne lnknoHn.' He was then ar,
ARGENT student of spiritism. though
hardly The confessed believer he is at
TINS inns when. Ike most eminent
~scientists who haze been convinced"
ne is easily sullcd. as witness his be-
lief in the Italian peasant won,an
EuSapia Paladino who, after she had
deceived and played upon the credul-
NY 81 nail the saNants of Europe. was
exposed BY neWsra per men, those ar
RANT skeptics who seem 10 recognize
sian1mins and charlatanis,n as though
~ InStinct. think William NJ. stead
Is the only journalist Chat is the
! ~ " = III ~
mem ever mot who was an obso-
iule believer in the ability of ''medi-
ums' to get into communication with
disempodi'd spirits and to produce
PhEslral forces through them which
were never possible when they were
IN the mesh and 20 ven materiaiize
them. which if possible, would prove.
that a spirit is but matter Of a differ
ing hiho rom that which is manifest
in the bodv.
N9t assuming. however. to possess
me ability to criticise Flanlnarion.
not having the renlotest acquaintance.
win the great principle or the ulti-
mate atom. n never expecting to
nave II; believing sorrowfullv that we
ar Al! ocstlned 70 remain ignorant of
these mysteries until the sun DECAYS
and the stars grow cold: that we shall
ever be
lih infants CRYING in the night:
lIike infants crying for the light
ANA With no language bul q cry.
have sought q professor in an
educational institution situated no, a
thousand miles from Pittsburg. a part
o. "hoSe duties it is TO descant upon
psychology, who is familiar with the
writing Il Flammarion and. as l dis
covered. had read even his latest
wore. The Unknown" asked this
s'htIeman'S opinion of the assu1,p.
oon OF the brilliant Frenchman that
We are scientists in all departments
Of research. are face to face with the
discovery OF the primal principle, the
mFstica! force which ever has moved
and forever will move all things: and
possibly the meaning of it all.
'oh'' said this rather hard headed
sclenust and psychologist. "Flamma-
tion belongs to the romantic scientific
schoo!. He doats upon and delves
ent and possible facts. A French.
mans mind and philosophy and SCI
ence are largely composed Of imaHina.
ton. They find mystical theories in
a parailax and see the abode of spir.
its in the spectrum. Flammarion, I
peiieFe. Is a man in very moderate
pecuniary circumstance though he
mas the tastes Of an epucure or rather
OF a gourmet taste evident in most
cultivated Frenchmen.
As to Death.
He does not believe that death is a
bourne from which no traveller re-.
turns. but that all who cross the Stv.
g!an river with old Father Charon
may return at will or at the bidding Of
a medium upon request of those who
are SO fortunate as to be mediums,
P ~ 'ic1t Itdul!N WIlcn the re-
quest is reinforced by dollars. Let me
not be unfair or extreme. When such
practical and learned British scien.
fists as Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Will
liam Crookes a accept spiritism as
OF the established sciences. 1 am
willing to believe either that Flam.
marion is on the right track or that
all are wrong and that in their enthu.
siasm they have been cleverly tricked
by others and by their own imagina.
tons and overwrought nerves.
II have followed with keenest zest
all OF my mature life the activities of
these men and women who try to cor
relate electricity, magnetism and in
later years the newer substances, such
as thorium. uranium and radium, and
the great first principle. some Of them
holding with ~Flammarion that mind
reading or telepathy is intimately as
' sociated with these mysteries and that
upon the same process of procedure