Making of man : a study in evolution / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1924
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Making of man : a study in evolution / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    27/194 (page 23)
    and Magnetism and Light; for in these, when seriously and critically examined, its activity is manifest. But we know now that electrical forces are responsible for chemical affinity; and we are learning that they are responsible also for Cohesion and Gravitation; since not only Magnetism but Gravitation also exerts a direct influence on Light, which is certainly and wholly an etherial phenomenon. It is only reasonable therefore to ask whether the Ether may not be utilised by Life and Mind; and whether the recognised philosophic difficulty of apprehending the connection between Life, Mind, and Matter, is not due to our habit of excluding the Ether from consideration, because of its elusive and intangible character. It is, how¬ ever, turning out to be an extremely substan¬ tial entity, of which in all probability electrons, and therefore atoms, are com¬ posed; so that the familiar things around us are after all only special and peculiar modifications of the Ether of Space. The aim of Physics at the present time is to explain all material phenomena in terms of Ether and Motion. Energy and Matter are now beginning to be considered inter-