The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-31
THEORIES OF SURVIVAL

~ OwARD NEW things intelligent reader will keep open To this end he will try to understand certain simple principles logic Nothing is to be regarded positively non-exsen excepting upon adequate proof In the absence of proof the mind Will take the poso that either view may be the true one
 the existence of a obscure phenomena de- bends proof upon the work of few isolated observers to be given great weight as compared not observed the facts and whc deny the upon general principles of knowledge as those did asserted that locomotive could not pull tram because the friction between the wheels and the tracks would not be sufficient for heavy loads.,
 is in point One class of competent ob assert that the planet is marked with artificial canals class equally competent deny habtable. Judgment will be suspended There IS not the material which enables layman to form cef'a
 
 Just at the moment wireless systems disturbed by inerference which think may be nerpaneary communication There is sufficient evidence order about the signals warrant conclusion of intelligence be- hind them The best guess IS that the signals are que to stray disturbances Nevertheless the state of scientific knowledge the believe that at sometime nerpaneary commun may established It is not impossible that the ray light which streams from planet to another become telegraph, or telephone wire
 Wireless signals being established for short distances speeds approaching miles second, the attain ment of greater distances is a detail
 say that given has been observed is not proof that it never science hardly than years old It extremely probable that pres en knowledge of the forces nature and control the forces tiny compared with the knowledge and men will have
 For ages railroad steamboat, telegraph, telephone automobile, wireless flying machine, rays which would permit the vision to penetrate solids.
 At time during countless centuries the sure-whout
 
 things, the ground that they had happened
 Sir Oliver Lodge with certain theories proofs tending to show that the minds of those who have in cases and in certain circumstances cate with the minds of the living.
 These phenomena have been investigated by able some of whom convinced that there positive phe nomena proof of survival positive proof occasional communications
 The intelligent laiy will keep open mnd and wait evidence and complete demonstration way the other
 It is of little evdental value that millions people have not experienced these phenomena Additions knowledge rarely by experience but by the experience few individuals who discover electricity the telephone, less the radum in which matter transmutes other wonders
 The survival of identity is rather probable than probable Religions of all sorts and ages have proclaimed
 The Christian faith is founded the taty
 The moot point the communication The lore Is repee with instances in which eged Miracles topic in literature profane TEe idea that the dead sometimes heard fingered in the human mind
 The views of Sir Oliver Lodge regarding the continuity identity be fairly said to have slight evdental balance in their