Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-06 | Page 13 | Putting the Soul on the Scales in the Laboratory of Science

Putting the Soul on the Scales in the Laboratory of Science By ISRAEL KLEIN Science Editor N NEA EA Service Science in its zealous quest to prove the tho evolution of man as a material being is at the same becoming more and more convinced of the exIstence of a soul What that soul s is the tho mJ mystery ter So deep is this mystery that most scientific belIevers in the souls soul's existence ex contend Its nature will wi never be known There are a few however however how how- ever who hope that eVen this mystery rays rays- i tery wm wIl bo be fathomed These poInt to certain delIcate evidences that have turned up only I recently in the progress of scientIfic research Ri basis for their hopes I Here are some poInts ponts they cite The I-The bod body body- o of man as a piece pece I of matter has been resolved down downto I to an unit the Ion on or 01 negative neg- neg electron which Is beeve to tobe tobe be the bas baste 8 o of all mans man's functions I Perhaps the sou is a prod product o othe of the reactions that take place among these units withIn the body PRODUCT OF REACTIONS In 2 the body ot of man matter is constanty hanging changing to other mat mat- ter or to energy In this process ot of change somethIng other than mere mero energy is given oft off just heat is given or off when two or more mechanical me- me bodes work together to another product Perhaps 3 the soul is the result ot of chemical interactions among the ultramIcroscopic chromosomes chro- chro in the blood small m rious bodies that have ha been found floating around in the tiny nuclei of blood cells 4 If the soul isn't part of us It t may be the result o the mysterious action of the sun with It its innumerable able invisIble rays an and l its mYsterious ous powers many of Which we have already been able to discover and defIne Vague and conflicting as these ideas may may Ibe be science shows a dc deep p interest in tIre the soul and au an earnest desire to fathom it Here are e the opinions of some ome Of I the country's leading scientists on this mystery VIEW PrOffESOr Michael I I. I lead Ing electrical engineer and Inventor 11 human and or organic anic I I I I I ena may be reducible to electric reaction reo re- action It may be possible that the Soul sou souis is an activity which from such reaction in our brain cells Theres the chromosome too a hundred Of them In a single n 1 nucleus eus itself Is thousandth one of an in h in diameter Yet this Seems I to be the tho foundation ot of our act I lUes I It may be millions ot of years ears before before be- be fore we will learn what the soul Is but were we're working toward that end First We must discover how the In- In work through Which the soul is expressed essed That is 18 the work of the biologist the chemist the physiologist ogist and other Dr Ales Hrdlicka famous amous' anI anthropologist an- an of the Smithsonian in When we deal with the human hu- hu man bEing as such we find a is no period at which anything known to us of so great importance could be found to enter tIre the body Likewise Likewise Like Like- wise nowhere can call we find a break in our lIves l where we can say definitely Here th re is no s soul ul or Here there Is a soul Yet We intuitively feel there is something of 0 thIs nature in exist exist- ence But we cant can't define it and we e must if thel there e Is a soul i is s 's much higher than we are although it I in b by all Or of us u. NEARER TO SOLUTION As we progress In n r refinement or of OUr qualities of perception and thought and our knowl Increases In- In n- n creases in and refinement perhaps we shall get nearer to a amore amore more tangible solution of this mystery Professor ProCessor Henry Norris Russell famous Princeton astronomer From Froma a purely metaphysical basIs I am strongly in favor of the argument ment lor or the immortality ot of the tho soul It is derivative o o a a. belIef bellef in Iii an all wire e and good good God The sou soul must have to do bodily e existence a and nel i it t is Immortal we may assume it in some sort of a outside out out- side Such belief is certainly possible The reasons for this however however how how- ever arc ot of a or metaphysical meta meta- physical nature r I dont don't think there ther is any scientific evIdence for or against immortalIty I existence ot of a soul tl ALL ELSE IS SAVED Professor Heber I D. D Curtis tor o of the Allegheny and a leading leading- ast mer I A Matter Is cha Into energy and energy enory back matter There e Is perfect COatton co atton a Me Are we w alone Man makes in his labor new compounds tha ture never produced Mans Mans' nates nate new forms o-ms o through bre plants and anImals Man is a 1 tire the In the he a prInciple of continuity and lieve man it J JI I cannot believe the Handel and the tho Ode to a a Gr Urn o of Keats mere and chemICal