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C Norris By orris L London i FOR OR generations far seeing scientists h have ve worried over the fact that someday some sohie someday day our comparatively small solar otar system system system tem will come to an end some day a cataclysm will overtake the sun un and Its rotating necklace of planets stars moons and comets will burst Asunder in m mone one mad chaotic ruin In this ruin of our solar system they read in miniature minia minia- miniature ture the ultimate ruin of the entire universe universe universe uni uni- verse with the numberless solar systems systems systems which it contains And therefore scientists have gloom fly lly demanded If It everything is created only onty for the purpose of finally going to smash then why was it created inthe in inthe inthe the first place and what is is the good of ot it anyway 7 Dispelling this gloom comes Sir Oliver Lodge the most distinguished of British British Brit Brit- ish hh scientists with a new theory of cosmic evolution Why he inquires should the universe have either beginning begin begin- beginning ning or end 7 Why should not the universe universe uni uni- verse vere be regarded as something which proceeds in regular cycles from Stardust to nebulae to planet to solar Botar system then back again to stardust and so on through the whole process once more fc repeating Itself over and over forever t As for example the seed grows vs into the flower which fades into the seed which a 1 grows into the flower again SOME COME two hundred trillion years ago our universe was composed of nebulae lae mere lee mere clouds of particles that would later cling together and form stars Some few trillion years from now our universe may again be only drifting nebulae nebulae but but again it will evolve into a anew anew new hOW universe All things last forever according to the Lodge theory Sir Oliver believes that physical cosmic cosmic cos cos- mic or mental and spiritual evolution proceeds proceed with a n definite plan behind them He was asked by this writer to explain his views more fully Evolution Is the tho process by which the tho Creative Power has acted and is still acting he said Things do not come into existence all at once Time is Involved how much being only a question question ques ques- tion of decree detree Things may happen in a second in a century in a million years yean but that time is involved is a fact Granting this the skeptics will say What evidence is there thera that there is mind acting at nt all alt any planning conceiving con purpose How do we know everything is ia not automatic haphazard mechanical The only philosophers who can think that are the philosophers of Laputa in Swifts Swift's Travels who sought ought to make books by throwing together letters letters let let- urs At t random It is quite evident that there is nothing random in the universe V jjr I I I What is the world composed of Not this world only but hut all ll the 7 worlds the heavens and the earth Twenty years ago we did not know to an anything like the extent we know now EVERYTHING in the material universe universe universe uni- uni verse is made nude th the whole is built of two fundamental units and two only They ar ara two minute elements of el electric charge positive and negative which we call the proton and the electron But except for the w welding and unifying in influence in- in fluence of a third the element el element the element called ether ethel or light or radiation the radiation the atoms of matt matter r would be chaos By Bythe Bythe the interaction action of the three elements they have become the cosmo cosmos It is hi a marvelous thing that everything everything everything every every- thing is made of those two units of electricity electricity electricity elec elec- two taro very very minute charges and by their forces they build themselves into atoms and the atoms build themselves themselves themselves them them- selves up into solids and with these solids we put them together and make churches buildings When we look at atthe atthe atthe the landscape when w we look a at the starry sky we Sa see seo nothing but the result re result result re- re sult of the agglomeration tion the crystallization crystallization crystallization crystal crystal- the form arm developed out of those two fundamental units As to tho the manner In which these two units have so to speak matted themselves together and produced the worlds a marvelous amount is known I'S now by the labors and genius of the great astronomers who are alive at this day Are we right in supposing that cosmic cosmic cos cos- mic evolution Is a process in t time lne that there was once a beginning and that there will be an end I doubt it I feel as if the universe were a going concern and always will be a going con con- cern I feel feet as if in some sense it had always s existed although i it goes through changes it seems to go down but it comes up again Time is our human mode of ot looking looking look look- ing at things There is a sense in which it is ill real there is progress development develop develop- development ment time Is required but from the point Joint of view vie of the Eternal it is always Now Some may say that this idea of an eternal Now v the continual pr process cess of evolution rising and falling tailing a cyclical process like the revolutions of a wheel is unsatisfactory as if there were no advance only the going around and around In the material universe in physics I think we Ve always find a cyclical change u up and down But in the moral and mental universe in the spiritual universe uni uni- verse use it is not so The Tho l spiritual universe universe uni uni- verse vers makes u use c of this cyclical change tho the revolution of a wh wheel el as a revolution revolution tion of ot a flywheel may turn out the woven fabric of a loom The wheel goes around the fabric comes omes out The moral mental and spiritual there is a rise in m values there This is not repeating itself From the inorganic rose the vital from the vital rose the mental from the mental rose the tho spiritual and from the 8 spiritual will arise aripe we wo know not what We have hn infinity before us We Ve know kno what we arc are we do not know wha what we shall hall beThere beThere beThere be There is no c essential opposition between between be be- tween hveen creation and One is the method of the o ot oyo f I r They are notI not AS A S THE astronomer searches the heavens so far away that human imagination balks atthe atthe at atthe the task of comprehending comprehending compre compre- hending bending t the h e distance for evidence of an ultimate ulti ulti- mate return to chaos of the universe his brother with t the h e microscope goes deeper and deeper in his hunt for the se secret secret secret se- se cret of and nd Sir Oli Oliver ver Lodge bridges the gap with the suggestion that the universe as well as life is eternal two two processes they are one a gradual one that can bo be reverently reverently pad nd partially par par- followed followed by the human mind Treating the proc process ss of cosmic evolution as as a process in time with beginning proceeding pro ng and ending ending which which h as I say iy I do not think it i is for foI I b believe liev it tobe tobe to tobe be a continuous process always g going ing on yet on-yet yet treating it as a process in time since for tor our human humah modes of representation representation representation tation we must employ the ilea of t time I should describe the in n cosmic evolution a as first the great uw taw material material mate mate- rial the ether of space full of radiation radia radia- tion or light tight the tile vehicle of life tite nad Radiation Kadia- Kadia rt- rt tion is the proper term any kind of radi radl radiation atlon light light is one of the most important to us There is t then en an und undifferentiated mass filling the whole Universe possibly infinity W We must try to imagine the knotting of it up in places in specks into electric charges the electrons and the protons We know lenow nothing about that process it is beyond us I do not say JaY it Will always be impo impossible to Us but it is not possible yet There they are the electrons and the protons they attra attract t each other they run together the they form the atoms of matter They form these atoms in two ninety different kinds patterns forms a definite aeries Those arc are the chemical elements Then those thos cohere into masses which then thon gravitate and form a great cloud or r nebulae slowly rotating slowly shrinking getting hotter and hotter holter as they shrink rotating faster and faster Caster getting hotter until they become becom visible by their own light the tho energy of their theiron own on gravitation liTHE c HE whirl goes on until they throw off two streamers and what we see Bee going on is the birth of or a con constellation for tho the two streamers break bicak up into stars stars and and wo we use uee also the process of ot the birth of ot a star We do not s see it actually going on it is too majestically slow it takes thousands thousands' of ot millions of years But nut we see sec the process in its v various stages as we see the plants of a garden gardenin in their various stages and we wo can infer that one follows the other The stars grow crow still hotter and radiate radiate radi radl ate furiously so O that we get stars tars of the first magnitude which arc are consuming their own substance in into space apace and have done so and so-and and will wit do so sotor for tor for millions of ot years eus Their temperature tempera tempera- ture is gigantic millions of degrees degree centigrade but it has been estimated estimated- it is strange how much we get to know about the these thele distant e objects They consume consume con con- sume their own substance The sun loses tons of or Its own substance tub sub stance every second cond That cannot go goon goon goon on forever The Tho sun aun will last an enormous enor enor- enormous time in spite of ot this loss 1081 the time s' s y J J l 7 N Sir Other Oliver Lodge Lodge the eminent lien British scientist 9 1 l N 0 f S t w ca can be estimated lt d and has been been been-at nt thousands thousands thou thou- sands sand of millions of years years bait it must come to an end nd The matter will wUl disappeAr dis dis- disappear appear and we shall get tet once gain again a i sP space e filled with ether and radiation And then begins the tha proC process ss once more Wh What t I 1 urge is that it is a cyclical process going around and and nd around from on one stage through the other stag stages s comin coming around in rn the untold ld lapse of time to the final stage stage and and beginning anew But this is in the th physical the material univ universe r. r eIN e. e Is IN TN THE spiritual universe I do ho not find that cycle I find progress there increase of values the utilizing of this cyclical process as us a flywheel 1 might drive a weavers weaver's loom a pattern emerge ing lag from the loom continuous th the th II flywheel fly fly- wheel merely going around and around If I had time to convey to you tenth one nth of ot what even I know on this thia subject ct you would be overwhelmed as I am by the majesty of existence The tiThe history of ot our planet is it but an episode in the cosmic Cre Creation tion is a continuous process art an eternal one We see it going on before our mental eyes Recent discoveries even this last quartet quarter of a tt century are amazing both in America and in this country and else eise where A new philosophy is being born based on more marc information than was wu accessible accessible accessible ac ac- to the ancients Or r even to philosophers of ot the last century So fat far from excluding the Deity and tho spiritual spirit ual world our present outlook leaves s room for little else There are always parts part of the tho universe which are arc without form and void darknesS darknesS' on the face of the deep always tho the brooding spirit is bringing cosmos out of ot chaos Fresh Freeh worlds are entering into being old worlds are proceeding toward df decay decay- but toward no final end the proc process SJ is eternal That Is hi m my theory The grandeur of the scale the vast st tracts of time almost are too loa huge huG for human comprehension on and yet ct if we allow alIo ourselves to think in terms of time z aV i c Y Yand i f fy w rt jV i and to treat us ns a sequence what is really a coexistence we 0 can foll follow V the process This in hr brief is my theory b of the formation formation formation forma forma- tion and Dissolving di solving and r forming re-forming of df Worlds tho process and the worlds being suffused with law and order the same law and order rulin ruling in the most distant distant- star staf as on earth Th There rC is not one law v for the tile heavens and another for the earth eaith The earth eaith itself is a a. a. a heaven heavenly y body Beauty for its own sake any u utilitarian phase is something with which scientists in general have not dealt A striking point in Sir Oliver Lodges Lodge's theory of both material and human evolution is his insistence on some not as yet oct wholly understood importance which beauty holds in the scheme bf of things s. s The flower said Sir Oliver Oli of lof what use usa is is the th flower It is supposed tobe conspicuous In order to attract the t fertilizing forti- forti tU attention of ot insects But nut why the flower should be beautiful Instead of ot otmer mer merely b gaudy taudy l Is not explained nor in in deed decd is the element of beauty explained Beauty is an attribute which must have extreme significance Utilitarian ideas cannot wholly explain it Without it it existence would not have hate the value It has now flow Indeed d. d the whole idea of the struggle straggle for existence suggests that ex- ex 1st must mut have havo immense value and the tho clement element of beauty must be one df Of the contributing causes canoes of that value slue Beautiful 1 architecture begins begins' low down in tho the scale of ot animal life liCe even among the birds though whether they have the power of appreciating their own nests nests and and the their 1 own songs songs we wo we cannot say nay It seems not unreasonable to suppose they have anyhow we w Hate hAe And so consciousness and appreciation have hl come into into existence existence not merely tho the power of doing but the power of ot loving lo That Is 19 the real meaning of art The decoration which h the artificer lavishes upon his hie work is a sign si-n of or joy in m tho the work voik for its own sake and to many it r i has as seemed that the beau beauty y lavished on the world around us ts S the tho beauty of mountains and sunset of everything we wesee r ree see ee when W we look with |