"THE MYSTERY OF DEATH."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 1 September 1915, Page 6

"THE MYSTERY OF DEATH."

REPLY TO MR BOYLE. [To The Editor Stratford Post.] Sir,—Will you kindly allow ihe a little space in reply to -Mr Boyle's letter appearing a few days ago. First point I wish to mention is the'silence he maintains iii regard to .my pointed question of Trinity College claims; he does not offer me in his reply any proof. "Why? Mr Boyle also mentions airy nothings, and in a letter appearing in to-day's issue lie warns Mr Blake of this evil movement. This school teacher and friend of mental, and moral philosopher's dares to give Warnings and advice to a real University man. This may be news, but, Mr Boyle, it is the truth. Now, friend Boyle, would it surprise you to know that from the realm of thought, or from that realm of "Nothing" has come all that is solid and objective. Sir Oliver Lodge said in his Adelaide address: "If matter could exist without the ether, which is doubtful, it would'exist in isolated lumps, or, indeed, isolated particles, having no connection with each other, whereas,' in

fact, they are welded and held together by the connecting and universal medium, the ether of space." Have ydii ever seen ether, Mr Boyle? Will you deny the existence of this nothing? Sir Oliver Lodge made the following statement in Melbourne: "It is not a question of thinking, but 1 ' of knowing, that'We survive'the destruction of our present physical form, just as a Beethoven .symphony would survive if you destroyed all the organs in the world." You see, Mr Boyle, there are some men who do give a'little time to the "nothings." Sir William Crooke believed, and through the mediuinship of D. 1). Home, proved materialisations to be a fact. The late Mr Steadv editor of '".Review of Reviews," was

an exponent and sincere worker''for this "pernicious" movement of spiritualism. Alfred Russell Wallace, I'Mt. G.S., the groat naturalist, sometime President of the Biological Section of the British Association for the .. advancement of science, was another

great writer. Have you read any or his works? Have you read Myers! works ? * Have you any knowledge of this'subject at all? If so will you attempt to show the great minds that can be counted in hundreds what fools they are. Comic friend Boyle, cease to upset religious services, abuse, and cast dirty inference. Drop all these shams and go out into the world and rescue the scientific minds from the error of delving into the realm of nothing!—l am, etc., ■ * ; J. PAGE. August 31, 115. (Portions of tin's letter are excised. Ed. "Stratford Post.") i