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Show THE WEIGHT OF THE SOUL. Europe jeers at the attempt on the part of certain cer-tain Boston physicians to weigh the human soul and hurls scoffing words at American scientists for attempting at-tempting such a thing. Still if they will go to their highest scientific authorities they will find that the theory accepted by them is that everything from highest to lowest is matter, the only difference being as to the quality of it. Accepting that theory as true, then all the difference between man's grosser self and his soul is that the latter is sublimated matter. There we have a basis from which to make estimates. If the sublimated matter weighs from half an ounce to an ounce, that shows a high grade.so to speak.sub-limation. speak.sub-limation. With that for a basis Salt Lake souls, being of higher sublimation, probably range from a quarter to a half onnce,New York souls would probably average aver-age two ounces, and because of the low standard of sublimation across the water we should at a guess rate a London soul at about four ounces and a Parisian's Pari-sian's soul at half a pound, so filled is it with the world's vanities, so much of the grosser essence still attaches to it. It is a crime to make light of a science so deep and abstruse, but it is reasonably sure that while the most delicately adjusted apparatus is needed to reach the weight of an American soul, hay scales are all right to weigh European souls upon. |