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G. P. LAMMERT.

AUCTIONEER APPRAISER

AND STAVEYOR.

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INTIMATIONS.

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IN THE MATTER of the Trading with the Enemy: Ordinance, 1914 to 2919

THE Custodian of Enemy Property, Hongkong, has for sale by Private under the following rumber of shares the undertaking of the Hongkong. ad Whampoa Dock Company Limited, mely, 990 (Two hundred and ninety) dinary shares in respect of the capital the said Company às existing prior

ita increase in 1915 and 57 (Fifty": ven) Ordinary shares (being the rights respect of the said 290 shares) in apeot of the capital of the said Cho-

ys increased in 1915.

Tandern for the above will be received

to and including the 10th day of eptember, 19

Partionlara, Forms of Tender and baditions may be chtained from the stodian of Enemy Property, Houg ng, at the Treasury, Hongkong, or b., Messre. Deacon, Looker, Denon d Barston, Solicitors, 1 Des Vaux bed Central Hongkong:

By Order,

C. McL. MESSER,

Custodian of Enemy Property,

Hongkong

Bongbong, August 15, 1919.

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RATIONALISM AND EVIDENCE.

tude as being an open-minded one. Ray Lankester's protest against Mr. He was on the watch to see whe William Archer occupying the chair ther such communication did occur at a meeting of rationalists seems or not, but his position is that he not uncalled for in the circumstances. The annual dinner of the Rationalist has not yet discovered any evidence. As he stated, it would create mis-i Press Association in May last was

Mr. Archer, in his article, took apprehension if the Association asked up the position that thought trans-Sir Oliver Lodge, or the Bishop of the occasion of a reprimand being ference is now an admitted fact and London, or Father Vaughan to take administered to Mr. William Archer, that anybody who has given atten- the chair at the next dinner" and yet who presided, by Sir Ray Lankester, tion to the progress of thought Mr. Archer was no better, rationalist. who was one of the guests, on a during the last torty years ought to than they are.

Mr. William Archer spoke in his question which has been of late much know that competent witnesses and competent investigators fully admit discussed, that of "telepathy" or the transmission of thought from his remarks were not very convincing." owa defence later in the evening brit thought-transference. Sir Ray one individual to another by other He apologised for misquoting Sir As Sir Ray Ray Lankester, but he still seemed Lankester, who is now 72 years of than ordinary means.

Lankester was mentioned by name to hold that his valuation of the age, is probably the most distinguish as one of those who still hold by evidence was correct, and his defini- ed biologist living. He carries on the "long-exploded absurdity" that tion of the part of rationalism, the traditions of the great scientists thought transference is not proved,

to accept loyally the evidence that¦ satisfies us"-breaks of the 19th century-Darwin, Spencer, the statement was a bold one.

down the But it was the evidence which Mr. bounds of rationalism and admits! Huxley and Tyndall, whose works

Archer adduced for his belief which all who hold honest beliefs an he described in his speech at

made Sir Ray Lancaster question the supernatural matters. In fact the dinner as 'an immeasurable

propriety of Mr. Archer presiding at the whole basis of rationalism. treasury of knowledge and of training the annual dinner of the Rationalist is destroyed if evidence that

This evidence satisfies personal beliefs is to be coa and thought." As the upholder of Press Association. such traditions it is natural that he was briefly, that he was present at sidered as proof of phenomena. Mr.

arexhibition of thought transference, Archer, perhaps not unwisely, has-j should regard much of the specula when the daughter of the thought tened to explain that he was not a tive philosophy of the present day as reader, who was absent from the believer in spiritualism that in fact, outside the range of science.room, suggested the subject they he regarded thought-transference as a especially those dabblings in the should think of. The father on re weapon against spiritualism, since occult which are now so popular. turning to the room immediately read many of the phenomena alleged to Mr. William Archer, some ten years their thoughts. As Sir Ray Lankes be due to the presence of spirits were younger than his critic, has pursued ter pointed out, the person who really due to thought-transference. other paths in life,-paths which would accept this as evidence of But this assurance is hardly more have branched 'from dramatic thought-transference must have very satisfactory. To explain one set criticism inte sociological and even irrational ideas of evidence. The of illusions. by another set theological studies. With the case idea that there was any pre-arrange- illusions hardly helps us forward. of Sir Oliver Lodge before our eyes meat between father and daughter, Scientific methods demand that under it is impossible to say that the study or that the daughter communicated the same conditions the same pheno-

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ORDER of scientific methods always leads to with the father or his entering the mena shall always be produced. This is

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their application to matters outside the realm of science, but some excuse for Mr. Archer may be found in the fact that he bas not handled the exact sciences and that his predilec tions have led him to seek impres sions rather than facts. Mr. Archer claims, however, to be a rationalist, and it was on the point of what is rationalism that Sir Ray Lankester attacked him.

The vulgar idea of rationalism is that it is merely opposition to the doctrines and superstitions of religions. Sir Ray Lankester claims for it more than that. He regards it as opposed to all credulity and unreason, and therefore holds that no person can be a true cation alist who allows his credulity to get the better, of his reasoning powers,

room by lip movements or otherwise not the case in so-called "telepathy," never seems to have entered Mr.Where the results differ from indivi Archer's head. His simplicity in these dual to individual and even in the matters seems to be as great as that same individual. Rationalism is of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who ac based on science and science could cepts some common illusions which not exist if phenomena depended have been before the public for years, upon the personal element. If chem- as evidence of mind-reading. One of ists could not tell how certain chemi- the commonest and yet the most cals would act on each other under mysterious of the methods by which certain conditions of temperature, if an illusion of though-transference is physicists could never be certain of produced is synchronous, counting the laws of light and heat, and if Two persons train themselves to agriculturists were in a constant- count together silently not so easy a state of uncertainty as to the nature feat as it appears but attainable. by of the crops to be produced from the practice. The numbers may repre seeds they sow, the world would be sent figures or letters of the alphabet reduced to chaos. In fact the earth When the number wanted is reached and the universe itself could not exist

the slightest movement on the part in those circumstances. Rationalism of the confederate informs the is based upon the omni-presence of alleged thought-reader that the letter law, and where law cannot be shown as, he contended, was the case with or number desired is reached. By to exht; it rightly withholds its belief- Mr. Archer. Shortly before the war this means incredible feats can be It is not a question of possibility Mr. Archer published an article on performed articles identified, num or impossibility; it is mérely a thought-reading in one of the daily bira given and thoughts read without question of obtaining evidence up to papera in which reference was made apparently any communication with a certain standard., Thought-trang- to the statement-made by Sir Ray the "medium." This is probably one ference will be accepted by scientists Lankester but not claimed by him as of the simplest tricks in the when it is shown that it is governed original that there is no evidence illusionist's repertory: there must by law and that in given conditions that one human being can communi- be many more intricacies, which are the same phenomenon is always cate with another except through guarded as professional secrets. produced. Until that time Judgment the channels of the senses. This Yet, in spite of the fact that trickery must be suspended, however credible statement Mr. Archer challenged, is known to exist and that "the may be the witnesses and the "evi

“phenomenal are explainable indence. In regard to the former. unfortunately misquoting it in doing

many different ways, Mr. William however, it may be noted that the Archer and others continue to pro law of gravity owes nothing to the duce evidence that does more honcur undoubted respectability of Sir Isaac to their beerts than their heads. Sir | Newton-Japan: Chronicle,

so, so as to make it read that it was impossible for human beings to com municate by abnormal means. Sir Ray Lankester defined his atti❘

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