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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



From a photograph in the Illustrated London News. 

 Professor Ehrlich and Dr. Hata. 



dictable by Laplace's calculator, given 

 the initial positions, velocities and the 

 law of acceleration of the molecules, 

 but no mathematician could calculate 

 the orbit of the common housefly. A 

 spider in the galvanometer of a phys- 

 icist would introduce a superphysical 

 cause. Still the speaker did not defend 

 vitalism as an appeal to an undefined 

 cause. A living thing obeys the laws 

 of physics like everything else, but it 

 initiates processes and produces results 

 that without it could not have occurred. 

 A wide public will doubtless be in- 



terested in Sir Oliver Lodge's state- 

 ment of his conviction that occurrences 

 now regarded as occult, not only can be 

 examined and reduced to order by the 

 methods of science, but that evidence 

 so examined has convinced him that 

 memory and affection are not limited 

 to association with matter and that per- 

 sonality persists after bodily death, 

 that evidence goes to prove that dis- 

 carnate intelligence may interact with 

 us on the material side and that ulti- 

 mately we may hope to obtain some 

 understanding of the nature of this 



