“LIMITED IMMORTALITY”
BISIIDF’S SPECI.JLATION
The possibility that through science Man might achieve a “limited immortality” was discussed by the Bishop Birmingham (Dr. E. W. Barnes) at "he dinner of the British Association of Chemists at Birmingham recently. Dr. Barnes referred to the progress made in chemistry and metallurgy during the last 200 years, and said that this gave us some hint ■as to what might happen if they got any continuity of development.
"What' would we not give," he asked, “to understand why it is that we grow old, why it is that the arteries harden and the lungs lose their old resilience?
“Maybe, by some combination of ul-
timates in physics and chemistry, man will learn how to modify the onset of time so far as this affects his own frame. If ever that time comes and we achieve something like a limited immortality, then it may be we shall begin to understand the inter-relation of the material and the mental.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1938, Page 11
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