Show Perpetual Motion Impossible It may be safely said that tiere are today I as many minds afflicted with this mild form of insanity as there have been at anytime j I any-time in the past Every uty pwn and j I hamlet possesses its wouldoa inventor who is striving to achieve the end that is to startle the world Many who will not openly admit that they believe perpetual motion is possible are secretly thinking upon the matter and entertaining the hope I that they may yet do what so many have failed in doing No other fallacy has been so popular or has so long withstood the light of reason as has perpetual motion Alchemy and the transmutation of metals which for a season or so occupied the minds of men passed away to return no more The philosophers stone and the elixir vitro were believed in and earnestly sought after by the really scientific men of a few generations but the search was finally given up The phantom of perpetual motion mo-tion however will not down but beckons men on and on leading them all to the same inevitable resulttotal failure lIen are as far from the discovery of the secret today as they were seven centuries ago and they will get no nearer to it until a weight placed upon the ground can lift itself up or as the idea is sometimes more I strikingly presented until one can lift himself off the floor by pulling his bootstraps boot-straps Chicago Herald I |