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of " eschatology and the inculcation of a ferocious 

 moral code." And yet it is on telepathy, if we 

 are to believe the daily papers, that Sir Oliver 

 Lodge largely relies for his proofs. Here, at any 

 rate, is a pleasing diversity of opinion which fully 

 bears out what was said at the beginning of this 

 paper. It is, however, with the third address, or 

 rather pair of addresses, that we are concerned ; 

 for the meeting of 1914, not only was the first 

 to be held at the Antipodes, but also the first to 

 be honoured with two addresses one in Mel- 

 bourne, the other in Sydney. 



Their deliverer is a very distinguished and a very 

 independent man of Science. It was he who 

 insisted, at a time when the domination of a very 

 rigid form of Darwinism was much stronger than 

 it is to-day, that the picture of Nature as seen 

 by us is a Discontinuous picture, though Discon- 

 tinuity does not exist in the environment. And 

 it was he who asked whether the Discontinuity 

 might not be in the living thing itself, and prefixed 

 to the monumental work 1 in which he discussed 

 this question the significant text from the Bible : 

 " All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one 

 kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, 

 another of fishes, and another of birds." Nearer 

 to our own times, he was one of a small body of 

 men of science who almost synchronously disin- 

 terred the forgotten works of Abbot Mendel, and 

 proclaimed them to the world, as containing dis- 

 coveries of the first value. He was thus always 

 something of a " Herald of Revolt," and maintains 

 1 Materials for the Study of Variation, London, 1894. 



