Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-03-17
The Great New Study
Of Universal Mind
Modern Scientists Headed by Sir Oliver Lodoe.
Go Beyond the Material in Their Esplor-
atiOtiOns-Pr0f. Ldrkin s Neu Book.
BY Bailey Willard

! lnch-long row of electrons side by
side would contain 12,7OO,OO0, OOO, 900
And yet to the microscopic individual
electron as we'll as to its atomic rela
tons science is bending it's greatest
efforts.
DR.. E. P. Lewis, Professor of Physics
at the State University, was silent
when quoted the theory of univer-
sal mind activating electrons. He in
dicated that his speculations had led
hlm, like others, to the theory that
h emotions of electrons within an
atom were something like those of the
planets in the solar system.
Studying the ElectrOn
The actual internal structure of
the atom" said DIR. Lewis, "is engage
ing the attention of physicists to a
great extent at the present time.
! There seems to be no escape from the
conclusion that the nucleus of the
atom is group of positive charges
and electrons, with an excess of posi-
tive elementary charges approximate
ly equal to half the atomic weight,
while the same number of electrons
circulate about the nucleus in rings.
In the past ten years great advance
has been made in our knowledge of
spectral series. The very important
discovery made by H. G. j. Moseley,
Of Manchester University, in regard
to spectra opens up new field of
vision to the physicist. Using the
X-ray, Moseley photographed the
spectra of large number Of elements.
He found that the principal lines in
the spectra were connected by a re-
markedly simple relation, namely,
that the square roots Of the fire.
! quencies of vibration are proportional
to the ordinal numbers arranged in
the order of the atomic weight Of the
elements in every case, and that they
increase by one in passing from one
number of group to the next"
asked DR.. Lewis if this evident
mathematical design did not indicate
designer, or creator.
CAS- to that" he replied cautiously,
II cannot say. But I will state that
we scientists are by no means as ma
terially minded as we are charged
with being. Jacques Loeb is not the
materialist he seems to some persons.
There is something beyond all me-
chanical and physical laws which we
have not yet grasped. l think, how
ever, that we have disposed Of per-
sonal God. We know that there is law
in the universe and order. That is
about all we know of these affairs"
Laws and the Lawmaker
"But can there be laws without a
lawmaker and order without some
ordering power?"
/ 81 suppose that these operations
must start from some source" he re-
piled, and then went on to the dis
cussion of other matters.
The cher evening at Hearst Hall,
Berkeley, l listened to a lecture on
fessor R. A. Millikan, of the Uni
versity of Chicago. When the beau
tiful spectrum of hydrogen was
thrown upon the screen the speaker
made many references to it, but never
that of the obvious design of the
lines, proportionally spaced and
strongly indicating the handiwork of
an unknown agent. This omission
evidenced the fact pointed out by Sir
Oliver Lodge that while a statement
in terms of mechanics and physics
can be clear and definite it must nee
essarily' be incomplete"
But speaking of that same Moseley
whose work was lauded by DR.. Lefis,
Professor Millikan said that what had
been found in the X-ray spectra by
this young Englishman, establishing
what are known as "Moseley's laws"
was the most scientific discovery of
the past fifty years, because of the
potential facts to which it gives the
handle, particularly as to the univer-
sal forces. Moseley was only twenty
six years old at the time of his dis
covery. In the following year he was
killed in the trenches Sacrificed"
as DR.. Millikan said, ito the Moloch