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...R PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AN...

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................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...canaries. He did this for four generations during which there was no contact with their parents, with nests, or with nest building materials. After ... ...I see people making conscious choices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterl... ... 12 ―But in the last hundred years psychology has attempted to clear up the muddle through a scient... ...st react away from their old beliefs? 28 ―When people reject the scient... ... ―Jung's belief in ghosts and other extra-sensory phenom... ...ther extra-sensory phenomena was seen as a negative influence on his ideas by the psychologists of his day. Yet today those same extra-sensory phenom... ... 124 ―This highly successful program has already given us some musical geniuses, such as Gustavo Dudamel, who was named ...

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...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below?...

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...n is fairly literal, and Malleson (a cler- gyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made... ...ich may furnish matter for additional information in a future edition. The scientific portion of the French original is not with- out a few errors, wh... ...me!” I had scarcely had time to move when the Professor was again shouting after me: “What! not come yet?” And I rushed into my redoubtable master’s s... ...over the left ear of a T ugendbund student; its lines wanted accuracy; but after all, it stood firm, thanks to an old elm which buttressed it in front... ...wn in mineralogy lay there in their places in perfect order, and correctly named, divided into inflammable, metallic, and lithoid minerals. How well I... ... I confess I felt considerably excited in coming to the end; these letters named, one at a time, had carried no sense to my mind; I therefore waited f... ...eturn should be the first news of it.” “Do you really think there are many people bold enough?” said I. “Certainly; who would hesitate to acquire such... ...ng, regions 62 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth subject to the dire phenomena of eruptions, the offspring of volcanic explosions and subterrane... ...e were a few jets of steam from hot springs. We had no time to watch these phenomena; we had to proceed on our way. Soon at the foot of the mountains ...

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...f a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter of a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere....

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...cise definition of a ship’s earthly fate. A “Departure” is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term “Landfall” is more easily understood... ...the first course of the pas- sage in an elated voice. But he, as I learned after- wards, was leaving nothing behind him, except a welter of debts and ... ...door with a white china handle. 6 The Mirror of the Sea That is the time, after your Departure is taken, when the spirit of your commander communes w... ...goes on to point out, with insight and justice, that for a great number of people (20,000, I think he says) it is a means of liveli- hood—that it is, ... ...lid sincerity, which, like a law of Nature, rules an infinity of different phenomena. Your en- deavour must be single-minded. You would talk different... ...out of the marvellous Tweed, a ship, I have heard, heavy to look at but of phenomenal speed. In the middle sixties she had beaten by a day and a half ... ...n leg. Even the Dutch doctor who took the case up in Samarang of- fered no scientific explanation. All he said was: “Ah, friend, you are young yet; it... ...s, cables, boats without the slightest hitch; pleased with having laid out scientifically bower, stream, and kedge exactly where I believed they would... ...habby, wooden, wharf-like platforms of the dock railway-line. She had been named, with proper observances, on the day she came off the stocks, no doub...

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...lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3 S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of wh...

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...ude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888—that is eleven months and four days after—my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentle- man, who certainly went ... ..., and reappeared in the same part of the 4 The Island of Dr. Moreau ocean after a space of eleven months. In some way he must have lived during the i... ...ny disaster. * Daily News, March 17, 1887. 5 H. G . Wells We thought the people on the launch would be better provi- sioned (though it seems they we... ...g of the boat. The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose name I don’t know... ...assenger myself, from Arica. The silly ass who owns her,—he’s captain too, named Davies,— he’s lost his certificate, or something. You know the kind o... ...n shipped; the boat was perfectly sound) that I had leisure to look at the people in the launch again. The white-haired man I found was still regardin... ...pose, about fifty,—a prominent and masterful physiolo- gist, well-known in scientific circles for his extraordinary imagination and his brutal directn... ...pport of his fellow-investigators and his de- sertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shame- ful thing. Yet some of his experiments, by ... ... We have chased you for your good. Because this island is full of inimical phenomena. Be- sides, why should we want to shoot you when you have just of...

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... charge to us, the survivors, to do for it what we judged fittest, if indeed doing nothing did not seem the fittest to us. This message, communicated after his decease, was naturally a sacred one to Mr. Hare and me....

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...d doing nothing did not seem the fittest to us. This message, communicated after his decease, was naturally a sacred one to Mr. Hare and me. After som... ...hich he surveyed with open intent eyes, and the silent exercise of all the scientific faculties he had;—very strange mystery indeed, this new arrival,... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...ecalled from his German campaignings, and had before long, though not till after some waverings on his part, attached firmly to the Duke of Ormond and... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...on;— there to witness, in due time, the tar-barrels of Waterloo, and other phenomena that followed. Captain Sterling never quitted London as a residen... ...n I first saw London, I remember those unfortunate Spaniards among the new phenomena. Daily in the cold spring air, under skies so unlike their own, y... ...l, is very amus- ing; and for the Book on Watt, which disappointed me. The scientific part is no doubt very good, and particularly clear and simple; b... ...s and creeds as the dignitar- ies of the World had fixed upon and solemnly named rec- ommendable; prostrating his heart in such Church, by such accred...

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...HE MINOR PECULIARITIES of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front. After some months of suppressed information—in which even the war correspon... ...d confuse and divide the enemy, but to get a real under- standing with the peoples and spirits of a number of differ- ent nations, an understanding th... ...rease and become a fruitful and permanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, t... ...te short stories, and Mr. Chukovsky, the subtle critic, calling in upon me after brav- ing the wintry seas to see the British fleet; M. Joseph Reinach... ...ently on getting away, they may not be able to get away—from the face of a scientific advance prop- erly commanding and using modern material in a dex... ...?” “Or how two undistinguished civil service commissioners can hold up the scientific education of our entire adminis- trative class?” M. Reinach prot... ... circulars, pam- phlets and so forth as they come to hand from a gentleman named Gattie, and his friends Mr. Adrian Ross, Mr. Roy Horniman, Mr. Henry ... ...at. And so, just as I cling to the belief, in spite of hundreds of adverse phenomena, that the religious and social stir of these times must ultimatel...

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...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...tradition and privilege at last was ended. He perceived that civilization, after many bloody centuries, had entered a new epoch. He beheld, and deplor... ...either a panegyrist, nor an advocate, nor a critic. He observed Ameri- can phenomena as illustrations, not as proof nor arguments; and although it is ... ...s ruins with com- placency, and to fix our abode in the midst of them. The phenomena which the intellectual world presents are not less deplorable. Th... ...the labyrinth of waters they have themselves created; and thus, at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas. The great lakes which... ...led this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or the Mississippi. The Mississippi takes it... ...ly destroyed by the hand of man, is a question which neither tradition nor scientific research has been able to resolve. These immense deserts were no... ...led this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or the Mississippi. *Darby’s “View of the Un... ...ly destroyed by the hand of man, is a question which neither tradition nor scientific research has been able to resolve. These immense deserts were no...

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...hed six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after the reality has happened, a fairly adequate diagnosis of the essentia... ...r side. There could be no Alexanders or Na- poleons. And we soon heard the scientific corps muttering, ‘These old fools,’ exactly as it is here foreto... ... is still of interest now; the thesis that because of the develop- ment of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empi... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...aboos made them tolerable to him, and they revered him alive and soon even after he was dead, and were his allies against the beasts and the rest of m... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ... was mooning over his fireflies at Fiesole, a certain professor of physics named Rufus was giv- ing a course of afternoon lectures upon Radium and Rad... ...sented a box full of loaded revolvers to a Creche,’ he notes. He met a man named Lawson, an old school-fellow, of whom history now knows only that he ... ...t subsequent ages must piece together the image of these devastations. The phenomena, it must be remembered, changed greatly from day to day , and eve...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...loons in course of inflation for the South of England Aero Club’s Saturday-afternoon ascent. “They goes up every Saturday,” said his neighbour, Mr. St... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...ttered in the morning, and was a clear blue outline against the sky in the afternoon, and of a night, a source of gratu- itous fireworks for all the p... ... quality his nature had craved. His employer was a pirate-souled young man named Grubb, with a black-smeared face by day, and a music-hall side in the... ...-bicycle again. And that was only the beginning of a succession of strange phenomena in the heavens—cylinders, cones, pear-shaped monsters, even at la... ...en the papers and plans of, an extremely shy and friendless young inventor named Palliser, who had come to South Africa from England in an advanced st... ...or one’s Mother speech and one’s familiar land. Before the com- ing of the Scientific Age this group of gentle and noble emo- tions had been a fine fa... ...9 H G Wells suit, the sandals, the Desert Dervishes—everything. For a time scientific zeal consumed the secretary, and the question of the plans remai...

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...blime beauties are virgin still; they will be seen to harmonize with human phenomena, also vir- gin—at least to poetry—which here took place, the hist... ...eze between the prison-walls of rock against which it surges, the country- people call the little bay a “fiord,”—a word which geogra- phers of every n... ...een amid the foam. These trees plunge headlong into the fiord and reappear after a time on the surface, clinging together and forming islets which flo... ...thed softly on her forehead and eyes. Sud- denly, like a traveller relaxed after a bath, Minna forgot these keen emotions, already dissipated by that ... ...s by which men agree to express the two extremes of joy and misery. “These phenomena are within us, not without us,” Wilfrid went on. “The being whom ... ...onish the reader, partly through the crudity of their details. A man whose scientific eminence is incontestable, and who united in his own per- son po... ...eir visible evolutions in the system of the world, that some day, perhaps, scientific men will come to drink of these living waters. “Here,” said Mons... ... do a single thing from any human motive. One man alone, a Swedish priest, named Mathesius, set afloat a story that he went mad in London in 1744. But... ...ead, horses and horsemen, harlots, precious stones, in short, every- thing named in Scripture, has to them a clear-cut meaning, and reveals the future...

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...he King’s: here his Majesty breakfasted, and did official work; here daily after breakfast he received the Queen; sometimes in pa- thetic friendliness... ...the Archeveche, or Archbishop’s Palace, his Grace himself having fled; and afterwards in the Riding-hall, named Manege, close on the Tuileries: there ... ... Palace, his Grace himself having fled; and afterwards in the Riding-hall, named Manege, close on the Tuileries: there does a National Assembly apply ... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...ill the eagles gather. Think how many a Spanish Guzman, Martinico Fournier named ‘Fournier l’Americain,’ Engineer Miranda from the very Andes, were fl... ...usible speech and brushed raiment; hollow within: Quacks Political; Quacks scientific, Academical; all with a fellow- feeling for each other, and kind... ...deed is gone from home, in the interim, over to Montmedi. These are of the Phenomena, or visual Appearances, of this wide-working terrestrial world: w... ...evenge; but in silence, with vague look of conjecture and curiosity mostly scientific. A Sainte-Antoine Placard has given notice this morning that ‘wh... ...r such flags, or what are called Occurrences, and black or bright symbolic Phenomena; will flit through the Histori- cal Imagination: these, one after...

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...napped like a fiddle-string. “Nicoea!” The word remained like a little ash after a flare. The sleeper had awakened and lay very still, oppressed by a ... ...Above such an assembly. That was mere dreaming, of course. Was it dreaming after Raphael? After Raphael? The drowsy mind wandered into a side issue. W... ...hanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to the task ... ... memory of his fur- tive cigarette, the bishop was staying with a rich man named Garstein Fellows. These Garstein Fellows people were steel people wit... ... a Bishop “I follow you,” said the bishop a little wearily, “I follow you. Phenomena and noumena and so on and so on. Kant and so forth. Pragmatism. ... ... uncommon with the more scholarly of our bishops. It is as if some eminent scientific man were to insist upon writ- ing H20 instead of “water,” and “s... ... he could doubt it now. Germany was the best orga- nized, most cultivated, scientific and liberal nation the earth had ever seen, it was for the good ... ...p- pose he was, or a supply,—do you call them supplies in your profession?—named, I think—Let me see—D—?” “Dale!” The doctor as he uttered this word s... ...rles Voysey, Swedenborgians, Moslem converts, Indian Theosophists, psychic phenomena and so forth, to meet him. Nevertheless it began to drift into hi...

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...ering of a palace, of a terrace, of the vista of a great roadway with many people, people exaggerated, im- possible-looking because of the curvature o... ...d me, but it was too high for me to survey this nearer scene directly, and after a momentary pause I came back to that distorting mirror again. But no... ...le. The data have gone, the buildings and places. I stopped dead the other afternoon in my walk across the moor, where once the dismal outskirts of Sw... ...as pregnant quiet, I thought, and was obsessed by the congenial notion of “scientific cau- tion.” I did not remark that while my hands were chiefly us... ...f. We held our little house on lease; the owner was a mean, saving old man named Pettigrew, who lived in a villa adorned with plaster images of dogs a... ...easi- ness that was spreading in this very matter, and the assur- ances of scientific men that the thing weighed so little—at the utmost a few hundred... ...many and England were on the brink of war. Of all the monstrous irrational phenomena of the former time, war was certainly the most strikingly insane.... ...are myself a disciple of a German writer of no little vogue in those days, named Nietzsche. For a disciple I must confess I was particularly ill acqua... ... up- heavals went on. The world was stifling; it was in a fever, and these phenomena were neither more nor less than the in- stinctive struggle of the...

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...first to the charming meadows which lay to the right of the road where the aftermath was springing up, then to the hill-slopes covered with copses whi... ...and glowing beneath a Raffaelle sky , and beside a canal shaded with trees after Hobbema. Whoever knows Nemours knows that nature is there as beautifu... ...is shrill voice grew sibilant, and his face took on the appearance of what people oddly enough call a sunstroke. 9 Balzac “Is that true?” he asked, a... ... say to the conversion of your uncle?” cried the tax-collector of Nemours, named Cremiere. “What do you expect me to say?” replied the post master, of... ...the part of Mephistopheles in the little town. This ill-conditioned youth, named Goupil, was head clerk to Monsieur Cremiere-Dionis, the Nemours notar... ...—one liberal, one minis- terial, one ultra,—a few periodicals, and certain scientific journals, the accumulation of which swelled his library. The new... ...to understand the reasons (which most people call caprices) underlying the phenomena of this delicious phase of life, when childhood is both flower an... ...r and against his theories as the Piccinists and the Gluckists for theirs. Scientific France was stirred to its center; a solemn conclave was opened. ... ...etween two forces, between an ill to be cured and the will to cure it. The phenomena of somnambulism, hardly perceived by Mesmer, were revealed by du ...

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...ts course. This explanation will become a mere commonplace in the day when scientific men are brought to recognize the immense part which electricity ... ... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...oor dog in his kennel. Isn’t it much better to come and visit our daughter after she is married to a notary of Paris, and live eight months of the yea... ...hout offence, for I respect shopkeeping; the best of our kidney are in it. After selling perfumery like him for forty years, we should be worth three ... ...ead, but if our affair succeeds I may become deputy of Paris. Ah! I am not named Cesar for nothing; I succeed. It is unimaginable! out- side every one... ...an, an abyss for the feeble. A vine-dresser in the neighborhood of Chinon, named Jean Birotteau, married the waiting-maid of a lady whose vines he til... ...cts appropriate to the diver- sified nature of the human epidermis. T ruly scientific men— men who are really great in the sense that they never attai... ...Cesar. “Yes,” said Vauquelin, “from hot and cold changes, or from internal phenomena which produce the same effect. Prob- ably headaches and other cep...

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...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...ive writer that he should be thus sensitive to atmospheric conditions. But after one has died as a maker one may still live as a critic, and I will co... ...mes left my study door open—our house is a small one—to partake of it. But after William came, it was always William, nothing but William; William thi... ...or were a novel change from the phlegmatic deliberations of the or- dinary scientific worker with whom the Bacteriologist chiefly associated. It was p... ...ess that way, or fall back on the green things… “I sold the bones to a man named Winslow—a dealer near the British Museum, and he says he sold them to... ...wo years after his cure I dined with the Davidsons, and after dinner a man named Atkins called in. He is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and a pleasan... ...watch this return again and again. Odd thoughts spun with the whirl of it. Scientific people tell us that sav- ages give souls to rocks and trees,—and... .... The first effect was a profound amazement, not untinctured by alarm. The phenomenal unnaturalness of acting is a thing discounted in the minds of mo... ...urred. So much for the tangible facts. We come now to the ac- count of the phenomena that attended his temporary disap- 144 The Country of the Blind ...

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...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...in other men’s interests; but a familiar sensation at the back of the neck after one hour’s keen talk with a Nauheimed railway magnate saved her any t... ...t’s the principle. How could you respect me? You never did, the first year after we married, till I went to work like the others. Our tradition and up... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...il. On remonstrating, I was told that these “professors” were en- gaged in scientific experiments. The extent of their “scien- tific” knowledge, may b... ...w levels is trying enough in all con- science without the added terrors of scientific hooliganism in the Doldrums. Rhyl. J. Vincent Mathen. [We entire... ...arefied area, precisely as a ship sinks a little in fresh water. Hence the phenomena of “jolt” and your “inexplicable collisions” with factory chimney... ...aterwheel is built in a month without oppression, thou, O Sheikh, shalt be named one of the judges to judge the pah-peaz at the Sha-ho. Is it understo...

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...nd Possessions, but has been probed, dissected, distilled, desiccated, and scientifically decom- posed: our spiritual Faculties, of which it appears t... ...imself in Clothes. Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after: the more surprising that we do not look round a 5 Thomas Carlyle li... ...ny, learned, indefatigable, deep-thinking Germany comes to our aid. It is, after all, a blessing that, in these revolutionary times, there should be o... ...n every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientific watch-tower; and, to the raging, struggling multitude here and e... ...lling dupes,—it might have seemed wonderful how Herr Heuschrecke should be named a Rath, or Councillor, and Counsellor, even in Weissnichtwo. What cou... ...r natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...e of those bell-girdles, bushel-breeches, counted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of which the History of Dress offers so many, escape him: more e... ..., speaking in the third person, calls himself, “the Wanderer,” is not once named. Then again, amidst what seems to be a Metaphysico-theological Disqui... ...etical. Thus, to say nothing of his Suppers on the Orchard-wall, and other phenomena of that earlier period, have many readers of these pages stumbled...

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...ice was the seat of the Government of Leon Gambetta in the autumn of 1870, after the dictator had been obliged to retire in his balloon from Paris, an... ...at Duke of Guise who was murdered by the order of Henry II. at Blois, was, after the death of his father, confined here for more than two years, but m... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ...or gold, to the austere M. Guizot, by one of her servants, an Alsatian Jew named Deutz. For many hours before her capture she had been compressed into... ...onsole me by telling me that when they are exhibited again it will be on a scientific basis, and with an order and regularity of which they were forme... ...lways poplars to be seen, but the poplar had become an aquatic plant. Such phenomena, however, at Macon attract but little attention, as the Saone, at...

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...ward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. And before we judge of them too harshly... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...ts way to the earth from Mars, just a second or so under twenty-four hours after the first one. I remember how I sat on the table there in the blackne... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ... little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black grou... ...cles, arranged in two bunches of eight each. These bunches have since been named rather aptly, by that distinguished anatomist, Professor Howes, the h... ...he case. It is worthy of remark that a certain speculative writer of quasi-scientific repute, writing long before the Martian in- vasion, did forecast... ...at the interest of 153 H G Wells their physiology and structure is purely scientific. A question of graver and universal interest is the possibil- it...