The Washington herald., 1921-07-03
Discusses Eternitizing of the
Isf Soul.
} washington Herald:

thA sthe eminent scientlst canine
Flahfharion, who stands at the head
of this earth's erudition and to
whop the learned the earth over
can bow as the leader of the highest
earthly knowledge, has now thrown
the fofce and light OF his great
mind into research. showing the
eternitizing of the human soub
comes to us with great hope and
confort<
StAnding at tho top of human
erudition and mind force today, i'm
mortality can be no longer doubted
by his powerful edict. The awaken
ing of the world to the fact that
the human soul is indestructible,
will lead us not only to be as sure
of this as we can be of any positive
fact. hut it will show us that every
thing created Is constant, that IL
cannot be destroyed. Created by an
infallible power permanence. was
guaranteed
A stone is taken 'and burned. and
Is converted into lime. The pro-
cess of burning the stone, 1t would
seem. would destroy whatever life
there is in 1t. And we will take
the. earth that. moistened and baked,
Is put through a fiery ordeal that
would seemingly destroy every
particle of life that might lie in It..
for in making brick we know how
thoroughly the process of fire Is
used.
Lime and brick then are used in
constructing a chimney 500 feet
high. Now it has been shown that
there Is no greater pressure upon
the layer of brick next to the bot
tom than on the layer next to the
top of the chimney, and several
layers may be removed from the
chimney at any part OF IL without
any perceptible danger to the struc-
ture. This surely arises from the
fact that the material composing
tbs chimney is alive and has i'm
parted. life to the structure. We
have often seen vegetation growing
on old chimneys which could not
be so il the material on which 1t
took root did not have life enough
to supply small trees, weeds and
grass nourishment.
It is manifest the chimney is
alive. Brick and the dust from
them, with moisture added. will
grow grass, showing also that the
process of fire has not killed the
life of the material. 1t is we'll
known that the lava from volcanoes
win nourish forest and farms that
have grown up in the lava.
Fertilizers are used upon our
farms today which have been ex-
cayated many hundreds of feet he
low the surface of the earth to a
deposit of homes of antideluvian
animals. the bones brought up
ground into dust and used to re-
juvenate "worn-out land"
II we cannot find death under
such conditions. where on this
earth. or in the cosmos, can we find
it,
4 grain of said is but a mite in
a world of soil and other material,
but this grain of sand must as
other grains of sand be alive. for it
is the combined grain of sand that
keeps -pur forest alive and sup
ports us in giving us vegetable life.
IT must possess this life itself to do
this. and that it is done with such
perfection will not permit us to call
il dead. Then where shall we find
this horrible thing called death?
Made horrible by superstition, it
has nj horrors Of its own.
Iset-us hope that the wonderful
analytical nina of Camille Fla
maroon will define the boundary be-
tween that which we know. or true
knowledge We now possess. and that
up to now impenetrable beyond that
the human mind has not. and which
in this life seemingly We cannot
aspire to. He is eminently qualified
to do this.
Socrates. Aristotle. Newton.
Shakespeare haue all described
themselves as knowing absolutely
nothing compared to the knowledge
they possessed pointed to them that
which was unknowable. Knowledge
that was far far beyond them, or
their attainment. Sir Humphrey
Davy when the laughing gas ;er-
powered him. said that the whole
universe was made up of ideas
Gross vibrations had ceased and
only subtle ones were present to
him. Everything had become
thought knowledge. the whole uni
verse was thought and knowledge,
whirlpoOls of thought.
Our knowledge may be as with
stone, metal and everything else.
We know that the same material
that cOmposes this earth runs
through creation entire and this
may be true of our knowledge,
Physically the universe is one.
Triplett increased knowledge 200
times when he found true zero to
be 200 times colder than zero be-
fore. Light when intensified be-
comAS darkness: liquified air burns
rs as if 10 were produced by heat.
Here We can measure our knowl-
edge and apparently cannot go any
further in these directions; but to-
wards the relationship that subsists
between us and those grand and
glorious worlds that swim in the
immensity of space. and the bound
AIRY line drawn between that which
we do and do not know. Where is
the sum?
kpowlsdge is a compound and so
Is the brain. A compound because
the, brain strengthened by education
and its own labor combine to give
US knowledge.
The soul and God are the only
sin1ples in existence; the soul
stands behind the brain and acts as
guide and gives US all the knowl-
edge we possess.
Could we in any way Join our
knowledge with that described by
Sir, Humphrey Davy and know at
the same time that we were in the
knowledge whirlpool?
This Is our future. and for this
we must by all means strive.