SCIENCE & A FUTURE LIFE:

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 21 October 1913, Page 5

SCIENCE & A FUTURE LIFE:

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S VIEW,

An interview with Sir Oliver Lodge appears in the "Christian Commonwealth." To a question regarding :ho human personality's survival, after bodily death Sir Oliver Lodge replied ' "We are certainly nearer such a demonstration, and that which has been in the past a matter of religious faith will become in the future a matter of scientific knowledge. Ido not say tIA proof is crucially complete as yet, ! inthe evidence is so exceedingly strong that it is only by mental contortion that its cogoney can be evaded, and as investigation proceeds every alternative hypothesis becomes more and more strained. The demonstration cannot bo based on any single instance or on any one group of facts', but it will he the cumulative result of a great mass or gradually acquired experience. •'What aro tho assured scientific conclusions regarding psychical research. Sir Oliver was asked. He replied: "Scientific men have not universally accepted any conclusions—not eveir telepathy— and inasmuch as tTie signi.lcanco of telepathy is very great and wide, opening nothing less than a new volume in the history of human knowledgo, some slowness in. accepting it is natural and wholesome enough. lew peoplo probably realise the far-rcachmg scopo and fundamental consequences ot tuts new discovered human faculty. tends to unite the two states of existence and to demonstrate the transcondanco of tho spiritual over the material in a way which tho anciently-known humaji faculties did not.'