THEORY OF ROTATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 August 1927, Page 3

THEORY OF ROTATION.

PROPOUNDED BY TOLSTOY. MEN TO LIVE FOR CENTURIES. Count Leo. L. Tolstoy, son of the late Russian novelist and philosopher, Leo N. Tolstoy, and writer and philosopher ill his own right, who is visiting America, said that transatlantic flights from Europe to the North American continent have not been, and will not be successful because the direction of such an effort is contrary to the earth’s movements in rotation.

Count Tolstoy, early in the discussion of liis conclusions on the relation of the human being to the spirit of movement,, said that his theory was not born of cursory reflection on established facts, or one reached in a fine flight of dreams, but that he had studied the question for fifteen years. To substantiate his theory he said that oceon navigators agreed that an ocean voyage from west to east was almost invariably more fortunate in all respects than one in the opposite direction. This, Count Tolstoy said, was because a western voyage was against the strong pull created by the xiatural movement of the earth. He expressed the belief that humans were in a better mental and physical condition when moving in the direction of rotation.

Regarding liis ( ‘notions.” as he expressed it, on physical mortality, he said that man would learn to live centuries instead of four-score years or a hundred years, not by the use of medicine, but by movement toward -what he called the region of origin. This region, lie explained*, was the celestial Fast, with the movement of the earth. “I see no reason why we may not vet develop a motor that will send iiian through the air at ten times the speed now attained by perfected machines,” he said. “When one considers what lias been done in recent years in all- fields of science, it makes cowards of us not to believe in far greater things. Is it not rational to believe that man may yet travel 1000 miles an hour?”

It is my wish that an experiment be made in a plane travelling at terrific speed to the east in which a physician and a scientist will observe the effect of the movement on- plants and humans and a cat or other animal. I am confident that direct and understandable revelations would come of such an analysis.”

Count Tolstoy said he believed that physical immortality was as probable as spiritual immortality.