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THE FAIRYLAND OF SEX FORETOLD BY NOSES.

FIGURES.

CAPT. MCNAIR'S FASCINĀT. ING LECTURE.

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POINTERS TO PHILOSOPHIC MYSTERIES.

Leetaring to the Engineering Society of the University last night "Some Curiosities of Mathe: matical Philosophy" Capt McNair, R.A., opened his address with a delightful summary of the relation between philosophy and mathe. matics.

European civilisation, he said, was not quite the upstart which the East sometimes supposed it to be. More than two thousand years ago Aristotle

was upbraiding fellow philosophers who took the static view of the Universe ng against his idea of it as something dynamic and full of movement. Modern science had certainly vindicated Aristotle.

In these times there was a ten- dency to abandon philosophy "the divine plaything of cultured minds." Philosophy dealt with the funda- mental nature of the Universe the actual, nature of things.

A Philosopher's Table." That was less easy than might be supposed.

A square table of brown colour, for example, only looked brown according to the light playing upon it, and only from cer. tain positions would its corners look like right angles.

DEDUCTIONS OF AN M.P.'S WIFE.

GIRL" OR BOY?

WIRELESS VALVE

ROYALTIES,

MARCONI APPEAL AGAINST

A REDUCTION.

** NEW **

LEGAL GROUND.

When a woman's nose is slightly crooked and inclines towards the A subject which was stated to be left she is likely to become the of great importance to the wireless mother of sons, but if it turns to industry caine before Mr. Justice wards the right it is more possible Luxmoore in the Chancery Division when Marrowi's Wireless Telegraphi that she will have daughters.

This is one of the conclusions Company, Ltd., appealed against reached by Mrs. J. M. Erskine, wife a decision given by a special of the M.P. for St. George's, West-tribunal of the Patent Office in mainster, who for some years has favour of the Brownie Wireless made a study of sex determination. Company of Great Britain, who In her latest book (Why be Child- applied that the royalties on cer less?" Christophers, 75 6d) shetain Marconi valve holders should gives many original reasons for her be reduced. conclusions.

I sulumitted recently, to an eminent biologist some of my latest deductions" she writes. He dis played intense interest in the ques tion of the effect of spinal curvature on sex determination.

Tilt of the Shoulders.

"I pointed out to him with what precision I could foretell the in- clination to male or female off spring in women according to the tilt of the shoulders and hips. When the left shoulder is higher and shorter from neck to arm than the right one, or when is is pushed out and forward, the organs corresponding to that side will be less well developed, dwarfed, depleted, or congested. There will then probably be a natural pre ponderance of boys bora to that

woman.

When the right shoulder is hunched and awkwardly tilted, the Philosophy had various interprets spinal curvature will have affected tions of the actual "absolute

the organs to such an extent that to nature of a table. There were the these women daughters only will idealists" (in the purely philoso-ardinarily be the order of the day. phic sense) who said it was an idea "What is the history of the in the mind of each individual and

woman who, straight as a young one idealist" Bishop Berkely call sapling. suffers from no such dis edit an idea in the mind of ability Dr. Bernard Roth, the God." Bertrand Russell said that a

famous specialist, wrote in 1883: I table was either an hypothesis or seo nothing but crocked backs every R construction." Modern science where. There are scarcely one or said that it was a collection of electwo girls in a million who possess trons in a state of violent move. a really straight spine."

ment!

Philosophy was. a "groping after Truth. In many ways we were no nearer to the solution than when Pilate put his famous question.

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THING."

Commander Kenworthy asked in Parliament, why booked Shiva, or the Future of India,"

Mr. R. J. Minney, formerly joint editor of the Englishman, of Calcutta, had been debarred an try from India in view of the fact that Miss Mayo's book, "Mother India," was allowed.

The tribunal, which consisted of Mr. W. S. Jarratt, the Comptroller- General of the Patent Office, and Mr. H. C. Haycraft, the Assistant decided that the Comptroller, royalties should be reduced from 12s. 6d. euch to ten per cent ba the wholesale selling price, aubject to a minimum charge of five shillings on the Arst valve holder and 2 ed. on each additional valve

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"No Judicial Guidance." Mr. Whitehead, KC., for the Marconi Company, said that the appeal came before the court in the form of a petition. There was po judicial guidance for the court, because the relative section of the Fatents and Designs Act had not received judicial interpretation. since the amending Act of 1919.” Mr. Justice Luxmoore would be com pelled to break new ground...

It was agreed, after discussion, to ask the Attorney-General, who was appearing in another court, to attend later and give the court the benefit of his views on the matter.

The Attorney-General appeared after an adjournment and informed the court that he understood that the Comptroller-General felt that there would be great difficulty in drawing up an order without the assistance of the parties.

Mr. Justice Luxmoore ordered the appeal to stand over pending the" drawing up of an order by the Comptroller-General,

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The second appeal, in which the parties were the Loewe Co., Ltd.. and the Marconi Co, also stood over.

ABSENT-MINDED GENERAL.

MOTOR-CAR FORGOTTEN FOR

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Brighton police found a motor. ear obstructing North-road, and a constable waited by the car for six hours. The motor car was then re- moved to the town hall, and was not claimed for two days,

Philosophy. When it did arrive at conclusions, these conclusions passed. out of the realm of philosophy into science. Philosophy might, there fore, be called the birthplace of science." Before Newton's day astronomy was a branch of philo- sophy-now it had passed entirely into the house of science. If he might Earl Winterton, the Under-Segre criticise Chinese philosophy betary, replied that the Goverment would say its weakness lay in its of India proscribed Shiva" be divorce from mathematics. The

cause it dealt with certain of its Greek philosophers had often been subjects in a manner certain to give General Young's solicitors said. excellent mathematiciana.

great and justifiable offence that the general was undoubtedly Indian opinion without giving absent-minded. He was looking for evidence of any attempt to study a fat in Brighton, and completely the subject seriously. In this respect forgot about the existence of his

differed entirely from "Mother motor-car. India."

Science simplified; that was the first essential. Spiritualism and psycho-analysis were still foundering welter of complexity and charietanism, and were waiting for scientific simplification.

in a

How were the great discoveries made Personally, he thought, by intuition of very able men... and by just playing round an idea with paper and pencil. In such a way, he thought, Pythagoras discovered the great theorem which was the basis of modern trigonometry.

Writer of Distinction, Commander Kenworthy: Is this British writer of some distinction differentiated against because, be may have given offence to Indian' subjects, or because he also made strictures on the Government!

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CHINA HOMEWARD.. CONFERENCE.

FREIGHT TARIFF No. 10. DATED IT MAT, 1928.

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ADDENDUM-No-14,———

Earl Winterton: That has noth- Tairy-land of Figures-

Ling to do with it. The book com- When one got to the realm of pure Bindu religion of extreme gross tains passages commenting on the

Part 2 mathematics there were many odd ness and coarseness which would be mysteries and, in fact, a whole offensive to people of any race.

NHH RATE of FREIGHT on fairyland of Bgures. Provided we have read nothing in Miss Mayo's 1st JUNE, 1999, to the following:

MATTING will be Amended from used it in the right way and kept wok our heads it was very "ikely that

to compare with these

COL.1 Col. 2 passages. in this fairyland a hint, a pointer,

Commander Kenworthy: A good

Matting..... per 112 lbs. 8/6 N 9/6 would be found leading to the solu-many people who have read both tion of the big problems.

(762) Capt. MacNair then led his audi- Miss Mayo's book was far more

Looks, including myself, think that Hong Kong, 9th April, 1329, ence through a maze of mathe- severe. matical formulae of a highly

technical nature,

First he showed that, in working out a quite ordinary question of pressure inside a cylinder by the

Earl Winterton: That may be Commander Kenworthy's opinion, but I do not think that it is the opinion of any person who read

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Euclid's definition of a line is the shortest distance between two points. Bat suppose those points. were more distant than we imagin- ed. One philosopher said that every line must in the end return to itself. That introduced us to Einstein's theory of relativity and to speculations about gravity, that force about whose working we knew quite a lot how long it took for a piste to fall from one's land to the floor for instance, but whose nature remained as mysterious as in the days of the earliest philosophy,

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