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

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1924
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    may be granted to the Biologist : but that vehicle perhaps need not be Matter in any of its familiar forms. It may be something more fundamental than Matter, something of which Matter is only a sensuous modifica¬ tion. Vaguely and indefinitely this has been the view of religious geniuses, from St. Paul downwards : that which they have called “ a spiritual body ” is turning out likely to be a reality. For we are discovering that our own present bodies, or those parts of them which we can study in the laboratory and examine with a microscope, are but instruments for the operations of a more permanent and refined and supersensuous substance, which interpenetrates them and interacts, so as to produce our familiar movements and to enable us to communicate with our fellows. The first indication that such communica¬ tion was also possible through immaterial channels, was given by the phenomena of Telepathy, the action of mind on mind apart from any material or recognised means of communication. This was a hint capable of enlarged interpretation. But the evidence has not stopped there. It has become more direct and cogent. We learn now that