MATERIALISM ATTACKED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144196, 12 September 1913, Page 3

MATERIALISM ATTACKED.

PERSISTENCE OF PERSONALITY

BY ELECTRIC TEI KCRAI'H.—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Sept. 11. Professor Lodge, in his address against the present materialistic tendencies, argued that time and space must bo continuous, and ether must bo a real physical agent. Wo cannot observe it, because it is omnipresent, uniform, and all-pervading. Ho amplmsised that ether was tho universal connecting medium, binding particles of matter together and making a coherent whole, instead of a chaotic collection of independent isolated fragments. It was tho vehicle fqr the transmission of all force, from gravitation down to cohesion and chemical affinity. It was, therefore, tho storehouse of potential energy.

Ho avowed his belief in a persistence of personality beyond bodily death, as evidenced by psychical researches. Ho remarked: “Wo are deaf and blind to the imminent grandeur around us unless wo have insight enough to appreciate tho whole and recognise in the woven fabrics of existence tho evergrowing garment of a tranvondent God. Evidence goes to prove that n departed intelligence may interact under certain conditions with us on the material side, thus indirectly coming .vithin the scientific ken.”