SCIENTIFIC FAITH ONCE MORE 



all around us. Gross matter has its interior in the 

 molecule; the molecule has its interior in the atom; 

 the atom has its interior in the electron; and the 

 electron is matter in its fourth or its ethereal estate. 

 We easily conceive of matter in the three states, — 

 the solid, the liquid, the gaseous, — because experi- 

 ence is our guide; but how are we to figure to our- 

 selves matter in the ethereal estate? In other words, 

 how are we to grasp the electric constitution of 

 matter? 



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In Sir Oliver Lodge we have an example of a thor- 

 oughly trained and equipped scientific mind which 

 yet, to accomit for things as we find them in this 

 world, has to postulate another world of a different 

 order — the world of spiritual reality — interpene- 

 trating and interacting with the visible and tangible 

 world about us. In doing this. Sir Oliver takes an 

 extra-scientific step and lays himself open to the 

 same criticism that has been visited upon Alfred 

 Russel Wallace. 



Om: Professor Loeb would account for all our gods 

 through physical and chemical changes in matter, 

 and would probably look as much askance upon 

 Huxley's "consciousness" as belonging to the trin- 

 ity of cosmic realities, as upon Sir OHver Lodge's 

 hierarchy of spirits. Huxley's coat of maO is his 

 agnosticism: he does not know, and sees no way of 

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