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the desert. Then let him ss see a kind ID
of untOward capitalization growing
across and beginning to dam the .be-
inefficient stream. II told. concerning
either of these structures, that an en-
gineer or designer. in London, called
BENJAMIN Baker. had anything to do
with 1t. the idea would be ~preposter-
GUS"
Exact knowledge. he proceeded. had
been attained by isOlating the sciences
one from another; by isolating facts.
exclude live things. n biologists ex-'
Guide mind and design from their
provinces. II cannot admit discon-
tinuity In either a or time" he
said. nor can 1 imagine any sort of
an experiment which would justify
such a hypothesis z
Life and Mind.
On ether he based his theme on the
constructive side Of his address. Some
scientists o up a position of m
phattc negatfOn towards ether because
they could not detect it in their expert
ments, but even life itself canno be
detected in b laboratory except in its
physical manifestation. "The laws OF
chemistry and physics must therefore
be supplemented, but need by no means
be superseded. Life and mind are not
excluded by science. although they are
by physiology.
our studies do not exhaust the, uni
verse. and that IL we dOgmatize In a
negative direction and say we can re.
duce everything to physics N chemis-
try. we gibbet ourselves as l%udicrous-
~ narrow pedants. and are falling far
short Of the richness and fullness Of
u human birthrtght.
81 0Qo the whole NJ mo fowfo0 n~s.A
ence as q steady passage from past to
future. only the single instant. which
we call the present being actual. The
future IL the outcome Of the present.
and fs the product Of evolution. Exist
ence. 10 k the output from q loom:
In some sort. there already. but the
loom OF time is complicated BY a multi-
tude OF free agents who can modify the
web.
Either we are immortal beinest or
! we are not. Those who make denials
who make assertions. Scientific men
are looked up to az authorities, and
should be careful not t. mislead, Sci-
ence may be. able to reveal human des-
tiny. and ahOuld certainly not OBJ.
! Scure 1t.
the methods OF science are not SO linn
tied in their scope az has been thought:
that they can be applied much more
widely, and that the physchic reRion
cah be studied and brought under law.
too.
New Work for Science.
"As one Of the representatives al
orthodox science" he continued. 4
will not shrink from the personal note
summarizing the result on my y
mind of 80 years experience OF phys
chicai research, begun without predi-
lection1indeed. with the usual hostile
prejudice.
I'm justice to myself and nv co.
workers. l must leave OH record our
! conviction that occurrences now re-
garded as occult can be- examined and
reduced to order by the methods of
science, carefully and persistently app
piled, and must 90 further and say
that already the facts SO examined
ave convinced me that .memary and
affection are not limited to thax asso-
citation with natter by which alone
they can manifest themselves here AID
now. and that personality persists be-
SyOnd bodily death.
i The evidence, to my mind, goes ia
prove that dlgcarpate inteIligenc, sun.
der certain conditions u tnterac1
with us on the material side. thus in-
directly coming within Our 1~cfentlfis
ken. and that gradually We may hope
to attain some understanding Of The
nature OF . 1argertsperiapa ethereal xx-
r~fStenCe. and Of tie conditions FaRAia& :.