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Our relations with Mars are always a subject of interest. When the weather, politics and the war have been drained dry, and nothing remains but a yawn to fill the gap of conversation; when the last conversationalist has chronic lock jaw and the last small talker is asleep, the trend...
After knowledge of self, knowledge of others is the first necessity of wisdom. Theories of life on Mars, knowledge of the eighty elements, an ability to quote extensively from Hamlet, or to write free verse, will in no way make up for this most fundamental sort of wisdom.
A life nobly devoted to intellectual and scientific research was that of Percival Lowell, who is dead at Flagstaff, Arizona, where in 1894 he erected his great astronomical observatory. Mr. Lowell had already attained honor in another field of research when his interest in astronomy, and his conviction that the...
Concerning his Martian researches, it is only to be said that while the general judgment of science is against his conclusion that the so--called canals are proved to be the work of intelligent beings, his work has keenly stimulated the study of that planet, and has greatly advanced scientific...
Mr. Bertrand Russell, the English Liberal philosopher, who has been forbidden, under the provisions of the British military service act, to leave England for the purpose of lecturing at Harvard University, and who has been commanded to live within a restricted area of England, where his movements can be strictly...