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but mention of two ascents in France. Both balloons had escaped. 

 In L' Aeronauts, Aug., 1885, it is said that these balloons had been 

 sent up from fetes of the fourteenth of July 44 days before the 

 observation at Bermuda. The aeronauts were Gower and Eloy. 

 Gower's balloon was found floating on the ocean, but Eloy's balloon 

 was not found. Upon the iyth of July it was reported by a sea 

 captain: still in the air; still inflated. 



But this balloon of Eloy's was a small exhibition balloon, made 

 for short ascents from fetes and fair grounds. In La Nature, 1885- 

 2-131, it is said that it was a very small balloon, incapable of 

 remaining long in the air. 



As to contemporaneous ballooning in the United States, I find 

 only one account: an ascent in Connecticut, July 29, 1885. Upon 

 leaving this balloon, the aeronauts had pulled the "rip cord," "turn- 

 ing it inside out." (N. Y. Times, Aug. 10, 1885.) 



To the Intermediatist, the accusation of "anthropomorphism" is 

 meaningless. There is nothing in anything that is unique or posi- 

 tively different. We'd be materialists were it not quite as rational 

 to express the material in terms of the immaterial as to express the 

 immaterial in terms of the material. Oneness of allness in quasi- 

 ness. I will engage to write the formula of any novel in psycho- 

 chemic terms, or draw its graph in psycho-mechanic terms: or write, 

 in romantic terms, the circumstances and sequences of any chemic 

 or electric or magnetic reaction: or express any historic event in 

 algebraic terms or see Boole and Jevons for economic situations 

 expressed algebraically. 



I think of the Dominants as I think of persons not meaning that 

 they are real persons not meaning that we are real persons 



Or the Old Dominant and its jealousy, and its suppression of all 

 things and thoughts that endangered its supremacy. In reading 

 discussions of papers, by scientific societies, I have often noted how, 

 when they approached forbidden or irreconcilable subjects, the 

 discussions were thrown into confusion and ramification. It's as if 

 scientific discussions have often been led astray as if purposefully 

 as if by something directive, hovering over them. Of course I 

 mean only the Spirit of all Development. Just so, in any embryo, 

 cells that would tend to vary from the appearances of their era are 

 compelled to correlate. 



In Nature, 90-169, Charles Tilden Smith writes that, at Chis- 

 bury, Wiltshire, England, April 8, 1912, he saw something in the 

 sky 



