MR BLATCHFORD ABANDONS HIS POSITIONS.
Ever since I began.tv read and think about life, and I began at the tender age of . six, .1 have been what is called a materialist. But of late the distant drum has been beating out new and strange measures, and it Ims never been a fault of mine to shut my ears. The fact is f have had to bandon my positions, writes Mr Blatehford in the Weekly Dispateli in an article on the immortality of the soul. Materialism seemed to be ut, impregnable fort*cs» so long as there remained a material foundation for it to stand on. But how can one hold to materialism if there is no material? It seems to me that the division of the atom shook the materialist fabric dangerously. If the iniinitesinml atom is divisible into millions of electrons, all 01 ; , • m motion, there is no such thing a - material substance. And, unless i a ... mistaken, the latest trend of science is towards a belief that matter is motion. I have been driven out of my materialist philosophy. Let us, then, give a little thought to the soul.
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Otaki Mail, 14 June 1922, Page 4
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