Evening star., 1920-02-11
SIR Oliver LODGE
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Eminent British Scientist
Addresses Audience That
Fills Polls Theater.


tainty of science Sir Oliver Lodge
brought a message Of the immortality
of man to an audience which crowded
Polls Theater yesterday afternoon to
hear the eminent British scientist
speak on The Reality Of the Unseen"
Although Sir Oliver interrupted his
message long enough to urge America
not to forge, her high duty in the
world and to continue her aid to "the
nations that are ILL.," his main theme
was that of the Immortality of the
soul and of the certainty of q life
hereafter, addressed as the new gos-
pei of science to the bereaved of the
world war
Says Dead Are Near.
Il know their loved ones exist and
are near them" said Sir Oliver SIM
ply. They call to you, DO not mourn
US unduly. We have gone but one
step on. Carry on! Do your work,
but do not blot US out of your
thoughts.
The veil is very thin and is get
ting thinner every day. Love bridges
the chasm and rends the veil. Most
of US are screened from the next
world by brain and body, because it
is our duty now to concentrate on
earthly duties and not to be distract
ed by the glories of the universe.
And even as there are many grada-
tions of life below man we are learn
ing that there are many grades OF
life above man, which lead to Deity"
Sir oliver took as his groundwork
the true reality of the unseen. the
unheard, the unfelt. as compared q
with the apparent immense reality OF
the things that make appeal to the
animal senses He pointed out that
man looks at the world through the
same sense organs as the animals
and that animals have even better
senses than man.
Things Seen Are Temporal.
"Things seen are temporal Reality
lies in the unseen declared the
speaker. He developed this by
illustration, showing the differences
between the appearance of the eartn
and it's reality, as discovered by
science.
The human race is conservative
and rejects new truth" said Sir oliver
"At any period. it seems to think 1t
is a Judge. 1t takes its stand on
prejudice In old days they used to
burn men with new ideas, now they
ridicule Them"
The senses tell US nothing Of the
journey around the sun, or Of the size
Of the stars, Sir Oliver continued, yet
science has proved them.
Immensity OF Universe.
Putting the dome Of the Capitol to
a new use, Sir Oliver asked his hear
ers to ina gine it the sun. Then, rela-
lively, the solar system of our earth
would extend but to New York, with
various planets scattered through
Chevy Chase and other suburbs. As
for the nearest fixed star. on this
scale Of things, 1t would not be on the
earth at all, but two or three times
as far away as the moon.
"The reality of the universe is world
upon world without end" said Sill
oliver But even with our great
telescopes, in which science American
astronomers lead. are we to assume
that we see everything? How little
we know Of reality! We are useful
in our day and generation. but Of the
great Being Of which we are a part
we have Of His purposes and designs
no conception. -.
I'VE are like the phagocytes, the
white corpuscles in the human blood
Although they live in US. how little
do they know of US! 1t is the same
with us. We do our work. but the
universe in which we live is a riddle
we have not been able to solve. We
may read it by faith, hope. love, but
not by intellect. :.
And your national fiag-what is
it?" asked Sir Oliver "A piece OF
colored cloth on a pole? 1t is a thing
for which men will die!'