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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1926, Page 3

WI-lAT .101? KNEW. 1.0-NOOX. Jim. 20. In a paper by Lieut.-C'oiimiuiuU 1 . Victor L. Trumpet-, which was road during his absence in i'-gvj)l to a meeting o? the Victoria Institute at Cen-tral-buildings, Westminster, yesterday, lie put forward the theory that the Hook of Job, besides being a magnificent philosophical poem, contains scientilie statements, allusions, and implications which are marvellous when account is taken of the state ot human learning and science at the peiiod when the hook was written, whethei that date was OOP or loOd H.I • About the time that people thought the world was a Hat disc, with tunnels in the foundations to permit the passage of the sun and stars, it was written : , . He Ktrctehetli out the north over tl,e empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. . As to Job's knowledge of physics, it had boon reserved tor Toricelli. who invented the barometer in the li til ceuturv, to demonstrate, beyond doubt that air had weight which was measurable. Yet the author of Job had untteGod umlerstamleth the way thereof , . to make the weight tor the "‘wireless was one of the outstanding •hievemeuts of science. We knew that and. electricity, and light were «n---->ved in undulations or wave.-. W lei c ;•;> beams of light intersected, « had irk ness at their meeting pom. bcthe two sets of waves practically iminated each other at that l»' nt - ABtt&ZSl't&ri m H g i, t «n<r» pi*™ f». ; I,c ry'cy't,;,,]!Whore is the way where h„ht tiiV And as for the darkness, where. i the place thereof.-' monte aßk^im?.^ M Hasmasen. a Dutch’landowner, hot himself at Monte Carlo; yesterday fter two weeks of heavy losing at the His 0 home was in Amsterdam, and ie had been known as a visitor he or three vearsi He lost the last of us money three days ago and had leen sleeping in the open. This is the fourth-suicide m ten