Oliver Lodge quotes - page 2

A body can only act immediately on what it is in contact with; it must be by the action of contiguous particles-that is, practically, through a continuous medium, that force can be transmitted across space. (Oliver Lodge)
I have made no secret of my conviction, not merely that personality persists, but that its continued existence is more entwined with the life of every day than has been generally imagined; that there is no real breach of continuity between the dead and the living; and that methods of intercommunion across what has been deemed a gulf can be set going in response to the urgent demand of affection,-that in fact as Diotima told Socrates (Symposium, 202 and 203) View quote
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It is rather remarkable that the majority of learned men have closed their minds to what seemed bare and simple facts to many people. View quote
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Motion and force are our primary objects of experience and consciousness; and in terms of them all other less familiar occurrences may conceivably be studied and grasped. View quote
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The waves of light are not anything mechanical or material, but are something electrical and magnetic-they are, in fact, electrical disturbances periodic in space and time, and travelling with a known and tremendous speed through the ether of space. Their very existence depends upon the ether, and their speed of propagation is its best known and most certain quantitative property. View quote
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Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here. View quote
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. View quote
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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby. View quote
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The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily beneath reality, that the notion of a God revealed in human formborn, sufferin. View quote
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