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NEW HEIGHTS FOR MAN

SIR OLIVER LODGE ON THE FUTURE THINGS GREATER THAN SCIENCE tUnited r.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright} LONDON, Friday. Sir Oliver Lodge in his inaugural lecture at Westfield College, where his sister Eleanor is principal, said that the' ultimate realities cannot be weighed or measured in laboratories. “What occupied the attention of the poet and artist is more real than the things science studies,” said Sir Oliver. “I look forward .to the time when the average man can attain such heights as Shakespeare, Plato, and Newton. Then there will be even higher peaks to scale. Man has not been civilised long yet and in fact is not quite civilised. The possibilities in front of the race are enormous. The world now is so small and so knit together that it can no longer be a place of international animosities. The more we are together (he happier we shall be.”

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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 805, 28 October 1929, Page 11

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NEW HEIGHTS FOR MAN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 805, 28 October 1929, Page 11

NEW HEIGHTS FOR MAN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 805, 28 October 1929, Page 11