The Washington times., 1932-01-09
Yes!


man more entitled to frontpage interest than Albert
Enstein or that the love affairs of and lady
sixday bicycst are more important than the latesC
discoveries about the cosmc ray (upon which scen
tific Seabury investigation is presently to be made)
Especially desirable, at this moment is the attitude OF
open-minded inquiry the habit of accumuatlng FACTS
of making guesses and discarding them if the facts do
not square with them, the passion for truth, all OF
which underlie (or should undere) scientific nvestlga-
tion l have capacity to beltte men who are look
ing for for nfantle paralysis or for new de-
veopment of the photoelectrc cell. 1t is only when
people bilndly accept what they cannot possibly know
that science begins to be an imposition.
WHATS Tine-Space?
The idea of reativy for instance, is become common
place. Yet except for the general notion that Everything
is relative with which the theory has little nothing
to do according of it's expounders) nine out of
ten believers offer neither explanation nor proof
/ have heard people babbe about time-space and, on
uttering question, have been told Well, time and
space you know" The "quantum theory is another
favore have read and listened to the simplest expana
ton of it and found that really to understand it, should
have to command thorough knowledge of three or four
Sciences including those higher mathematics which only
a dozen or two in America fully comprehend. And
there others there notably the theory that beyond
certain point, all the laws of physics are pure guess
work.
Dissoving Matter ..........,..
The fact is that the physical sciences, which few
years ago making the world around US more solid
and certain, have now swept the other way. We
used to laugh at the vulgar Doctor Johnson who kicked
stone with his toe proof that matter existed; and
likely not to be told that matter is only
electrical energy movement little particles of time
The magnificent laws under which atomic combinations
were made considered mere laboratory guides
without permanence. | understood even the
simplest chemistry, so that without melancholy at
the disappearance of it's laws speak without spite The
new science allows us to the tables of the DID, but
with warning that they may have no eternal validity
they not counterfeit but they may off the gold
standard at any minute. ..,..''',''.'
Philosophers Return .........,.......
A few generations ago philosophy (Which might have
been the summarized knowledge of human experience
began to make the swing away from everyday
reality Now, according to Dr. Dewey, it may return.
Coarse everyday experience he says is the true basis
of philosophy, which is only common sense which has
become critically aware of itself" In fact he bames
present-day philosophy for wandering in wilderness
because it trusts the special sciences than this
common experience
Not Comic Figure
1t will take long time before the
academic gown and the specaces and the absent minded
of the professor of philosophy from the picture in
the public mind. Philosophy has been blind look
ing in the dark for black cat which isn't there to the
in the street the is still term of contempt
And the man. in about the street. speaks of
science with respect because science is two hngsthe
search for practical TRUTH by which he drives his motor
car and the search for distant laws, of which know
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