Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1900: Vol. 56, Nov. 1899 to April, 1900Various
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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1900: Vol. 56, Nov. 1899 to April, 1900
Various
Science -- Periodicals; Technology -- Periodicals
M. L. Azoulay suggests, in the _Revue Scientifique_, that the
invitation given to Señor Rámon y Cajal, the celebrated Spanish
neurologist, to visit the United States and attend the celebration
of the tenth anniversary of Clark University, furnishes a good
example for France to follow. “It causes grievous chagrin to
me to think,” he says, “that while Germany, England, Austria,
Switzerland, and the United States are regularly accustomed
to invite to their scientific ceremonials, of which there are
more than one every year, students of other countries who have
illustrated any branch of human knowledge, France, formerly so
hospitable, refuses these international appeals.”
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At the recent meeting of the British Archæological Association,
at Buxton, Dr. Brushfield described the prehistoric circle of
Arbor Low as, upon evidence which he cited, the earliest neolithic
monument in Britain. There are thirty-two stones in the circle, all
now lying prostrate, but they must originally have been erect. The
dolmen in the center is now level with the ground. The mound and
ditch--the latter being inside, between the mound and the stone
circle--are in a very perfect condition, notwithstanding the lapse
of time. The work has two openings--on the northeast and southwest.
Editor’s Table.
_SCIENCE AND DOGMA._
After many uncomfortable turnings in his narrow theological quarters,
the eminent biologist, Professor St. George Mivart, seems to have made
up his mind that he may as well, before he dies, know what it is to
enjoy the air of liberty. For many years he has been pining for this,
and almost inviting the authorities of the Church to give him his
passports. The Church was not anxious, however, to quarrel with a man
of recognized ability and wide knowledge, and therefore writings which
might well have been expected to give serious umbrage were allowed to
pass unnoticed. The professor then made a most audacious raid upon
the venerable doctrine that there remains for the majority of mankind
a place of unutterable and eternal misery. He ventured to speak of
The Happiness in Hell, maintaining that, while the inhabitants of
that abode would always have a profound and harrowing sense of having
missed the supreme happiness of heaven, they would still be able to
occupy themselves in a variety of ways which would give them a certain
amount of happiness, just as in this world a man may carry a profound
sorrow in his heart and yet, under the stimulus of business or society
or intellectual study, have his attention happily diverted for many
hours every day. At this point the authorities drew the line. It is
related of an old Scotch lady that, referring to the Universalists,
she said, “Those people say that all men will be saved at last, but
_we_ hope for better things.” Whether this was the point of view of
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