| Show vv EDISON AND VOLTAIRE R E EThe The Th discoveries ot ot of mo modern ern ael- ael science encl ence la aas s Thomas A Edison fa- fa favor fa favor vor VOl a belief beller In the Immortality of o the soul Thus does one more snore man of o science clence offer otter an an aD anwer to the old age-old question If Ia t a man die shall lie he live again acain Edison's life so to speak has been spent In the laboratory For m many ny years ears he has busied himself with test tubes and chem chou chemical chon- chon ical equations and electrical de- de devices de devices vices He Ie hu has ha been as It were the poet of o materialism the prophet of ot the jua machine the worker work work- worker er of t miracles In Inanimate ob ob- objects ob- ob objects je Ct a has He ven en conferred a kind kin of ot Immortality on his fellow men Caruso Carulo Is dead et Caruso Caluso be- be because be because cause caule of Lenius still sings The golden voice was waa not nt choked by hy the grave but sings lings linfon on as as s vibrantly as 88 It did when Caruso lived Now ow men who Jio who work miracles of ol this Ibis kind are not ordinarily men inOn of any great treat faith in a soui soul or a hereafter They are accustomed to exact figures to demonstrate proofs proof to reaction that they can see ste and equations that they can set down on paper They do not like lik to accept anythinG that they cannot prove Many Man o ot of them are skeptics and some torn are out and atheists It ItIs Iti i li Is a debatable question question some hold holi whether our scientists have hay not nol done us more more harm than good In that bat their gifts gitts to us UI have bave been accompanied by a materialistic doubting philosophy that for Cor many man people has robbed life ot of o joy oy and the world of ot hope Edison's statement is like hike a breath of o fresh tresh air sir It 1 I 1 a ft helpful reminder that science ba bas baa not settled any of at othe the questions of the spirit that thal the soulless philosophy of ot asci a sd- sd set set- enlist like Haeckel Huckel for tor Instance Is I only one ene on mans mans man's opinion and nota nota not a creed to which science as a whole subscribes Edison nearing the tho close dene r nf of his bis life Ufe Is like Voltaire greatest of the th skeptics Edison at 80 0 re- re remarks marks that a belief In Immortal Immortal- It Ity Is after r all comforting and reasonable Voltaire dying conceded conceded con- con conceded ceded muei much the same sam thing thine with the th remark I 1 to go to face a treat great perhaps |
