Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even now there are many who may be won over at once by the claim of a French scientist that he had discovered in the human body a "paroptic" sense, or one making sight possible through the pores of the skin. In proof of this the doctor had his subject blindfolded with heavy cloth for ordinary light lays, and with leadfoil for X-rays. The subject then "read", printed cards held a short distance from his nose...
...given such a scientific flavor and because it is claimed that the new sense will eliminate blindness. Since we are anxious to give credence, we can a least promise in a "suspension of disbelief" while awaiting the verdict of investigation. And it can be suggested that, even if the scientist should be excused as a quack, he may at least have the prospect of making a living in another way. For a certain boy, on whom a pig's eye was grafted recently, although unable to see clearly has entered a career on the vaudeville stage, and, with...
...give the Juniors an added advantage, For woman, it is now claimed, possesses five ounces less of brain matter than does man. If she succeeds in winning the conversational battle, she will be credited with a moral victory, at least, and she will disprove the theory of the new scientist. But conversation, though important, is not the chief part of the evening. There will stand before every couple the recently made fourteen and a half hour record for continuous dancing, and when the dining tables are brought out in the morning, the waiters should not be surprised...
When science has matured with age and develops that wisdom which age has already brought to religion, perhaps some great scientist will bring us the full truth which will completely reconcile science and religion. Or must we wait for that until we reach that better country where the limitations of the flesh, to which Dr. Steinmetz refers, no longer hampers us--where we shall no longer "see through a glass darkly but face to face", and where we will be with God--the great fountain of truth and love and light--forever...
...method of discovery, apparently, that stirs this scientist's sense of irony. With all its advancement, surgery has had to turn for this lesson to the pariahs of the profession, witch-doctors, fakirs, and miracle-workers of semi-civilized races. The exhibitions of professional tricksters, who astonish their audiences by self-inflicted torture, are often made possible and painless by this simple process of deep breathing. A French doctor, observing some of these semi-savage rites in Africa, drew his own conclusion, and the test of actual experiment was a satisfactory proof...