The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-11
PSYCHIC SEER
PLEADS CASE Of
FUTURE LIFE
Sir Oliver Lodge Reads Nota-
BILE Paper Before British
Association for Advance
ment of Science.
PRESENT DATA is NO
BASIS FOR SKEPTICISM
Believes Science Will Learn
Much About Spirit World
and Means of Com
munication.

BIRMINGHAM, England, Sept TO-
Published forecasts of the address OF
Sir Oliver Lodge, president of the Brit
ish Association for the Advancement OF
Science, intimating that he would make
statements of startling character con
corning immortality and the proof of
life after death, although publicly de.
MED by Sir Oliver himself, caused the
reading of his address at the meeting
tonight to be anticipated with lively in
terest and heard with profound atten-
tion.
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge delivered the
inaugural address at the meeting of the
British association at Central hall to-
night. The hall was crowded to its
utmost capacity with men and women
Nine. Curie There.
A presidential address before the
British association seldom has been
awaited with such eagerness on the part
Of the general public as that delivered
tonight. The leading scientists Of the
world were In the audience, including
Nine. Curie, the co-discoverer with her
late husband OF radium, and fifty other
great foreign savants-
Usually such addresses are too scien-
tific and abstruse to appeal to popular
taste. but it WAS known that Sir Oliver
Lodge was to deal with the mystery OF
after-Hfe and the question of the per
sistence of personality after death, and
in avowing his belief In such after-hfe
the speaker went further than any
scientist had yet gone towards answer
ing question so profoundly interest
ing TO the mass of mankind.
The address was listened to with i'm
pressive silence, which was broken only
by the murmur Of half-suppressed laugh
ter or little outbursts Of applause.
His subject was Continuity" and
summarized in his own words, Sir Oil
ver's argument was:
A marked feature Of the present
scientific era Is the discovery Of,
and interest in, various kinds Of
atomism; 30 that continuity seems
In danger of being lost sight Of.
Another tendency is toward COM
prehensive negative generahsations
from limited point Of view.
Another Is to take refuge in
rather vague forms Of statement,
and to shrink from further exami
nation of the puzzling and the OBJ
scllre.
Another is TO deny the existence
Of anything which makes no appeal
to organs Of sense and no ready re-
sponse to laboratory experiment.
Against these tendencies the author
| contends. He urges belief In ultimate
continuity as essential too science. He
regards scientific conc entration as an
inadequate basis for philosophic gener'
alization. He believes that obscure
phenomena may be expressed simply If
properly faced, and he points out that
the noD-appearance of anything perfect
IL uniform and omnipresent is only
| what should be expected, and is no ar
| gument against its real substantial ex,
| istence.
Life After Death.
In conclusion Sir Oliver touched upon
the question Of life after death He
declared his conviction that 'occur'
| rences now regarded as occult can be
| examined and reduced TO order by the
methods of science carefully and per
sistently applied" and that already
the facts so examined have convinced
| ma that memory and affection are not
limited to that association with matter
nv which alone they can manifest them
selves here, and now, and that per
souality persists beyond bodily death. y
| Sir Oliver further declared the "evi'
deuce to my mind goes to prove that
discarnato intelligence, under certain
conditions, may interact with MS on the
u,,ter;al side,o and that "we may hope
o. attain some understanding of the
nature of a larger, perhaps etberial. ex-
;etonca and of the conditions regulat-
;no intercourse across the chasm. -
In his remarks leading up to these
declarations. Sir Oliver said;
| Eliminating from our purview, as
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