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Loeb believed in determinism, mechanism, and materialism as The Truth, not as working hypotheses useful for getting good results in limited experimental situations. He was a philosophical monist: he believed one principle, determinism, governed the whole universe. He felt he could therefore, apply his experimental results to political justice, social welfare, and ethics. Mechanistic science was the source of whatever progress men had made, he said, "not only in physical welfare but also in the conquest of superstition and hatred, and in the formation of a correct view of life." The possible social and philosophical applications were Loeb's motivation...
Died. Whilhelm Ostwald, 78, German chemist, 1909 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, the "Monist Pope," founder of the influential Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie; at Grossbothen, Germany, whither he had retired (1906) from the University of Leipzig...
...gasped. He had demonstrated to them the newest equation in his latest theory, the Unified Field Theory upon which he has been working since he completed the General Theory of Relativity in 1915. For the past century physicists have been striving after scientific monism. Dr. Einstein has been a monist leader. Scotland's James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) correlated light and electricity. In 1905 Dr. Einstein announced that electricity and magnetism are two aspects of one world force. His General Theory of Relativity demonstrated that gravity is an other world force. His hope, realized in the Unified Field Theory...
...Chou Tun-i the Monist", Professor Porter Widener...
Chon Tunei the Monist", Professor Porter Widener...