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the behaviour of colloids and from Leduc's pretty 

 toys were promptly disclaimed by leading chemists 

 in the course of the few days after the delivery of 

 the address. 



Further, the President for the year 1914 in 

 his address (Melbourne, p. 1 8) l told us that the 

 problem of the origin of life, which, let us remind 

 ourselves, in the 1912 address was on the point 

 of solution, " still stands outside the range of 

 scientific investigation," and that when the 

 spontaneous formation of formaldehyde is talked 

 of as a first step in that direction he is reminded 

 of nothing so much as of Harry Lauder, in the 

 character of a schoolboy, " pulling his treasures 

 from his pocket ' That's a wassher for makkin 

 motor-cars ! ' Nineteen hundred and twelve 

 pinned its faith on matter and nothing else ; 

 Nineteen hundred and thirteen assured us that 

 " occurrences now regarded as occult can be 

 examined and reduced to order by the methods 

 of science carefully and persistently applied." 8 

 Further, the examination of those facts had con- 

 vinced the deliverer of the address " that memory 

 and affection are not limited to that association 

 with matter by which alone they can manifest 

 themselves here and now, and that personality 

 persists beyond bodily death." Nineteen hundred 

 and fourteen proclaimed telepathy a " harmless 

 toy," which, with necromancy, has taken the place 



1 Two addresses were delivered in 1914 one in Melbourne, 

 the other in Sydney. These will be referred to in this article 

 as M. & S. 



a Sir Oliver Lodge : Continuity, p. 90. 



