Raymond, or Life and death : with examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death / by Sir Oliver J. Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
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1916
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    able to make anyone understand really difficult things. I think we were most of us proudest and most hopeful of him. Some of us, I did myself, sometimes took prob¬ lems technical or intellectual to him, sure of a wise and sound solution. 1 hough his chief strength lay 011 the side of mechanical and electrical engineering it was not confined to that. He read widely, and liked good literature of an intellectual and witty but not highly imaginative type, at least I do not know that he read Shelley or much of William Morris, but he was fond of Fielding, Pope, and Jane Austen. Naturally he read Shakespeare, and I particularly associ¬ ate him with Twelfth Night and Love s Labour s Lost. Among novelists, his favourites, after Fielding and Miss Austen, were I believe Dickens and Reade; and he frequently quoted from the essays and letters of Charles Lamb.1 Of the stories of his early childhood, and his over¬ flowing vitalit}/ made many, I was too often from home to be able to speak at large. But one I may tell. Once when a small boy at Grove Park, Liverpool, he jumped out of the bath and ran down the stairs with the nurse after him, out of the front door, down one drive along the road and up the other, and was safely back in the bath again before the horrified nursemaid could catch up with him. [body of Memoir incomplete, and omitted here.] 1 Note by O. J. L.—A volume of poems by O. W. F. L. had been sent to Raymond by the author; and this came back with his kit, inscribed on the title page in a way which showed that it had been appreciated :— “ Received at Wisques (Machine-Gun School), near St. Omer, France—-12th July 1915. Taken to camp near Poperinghe—13** July. To huts near Dickebusch—21st July. To first-line trenches near St. Eloi, in front of ‘ The Mound of Death ’—24^ July.”