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WE understand that the argument of the presidential address to be delivered by Sir Oliver Lodge at the Birmingham meeting is as follows:—A marked feature of the present scientific era is the discovery of, and interest in, various kinds of atomism, so that continuity seems in danger of being lost sight of. Another tendency is toward comprehensive negative generalisations from a limited point of view. Another is to take refuge in rather vague forms of statement, and to shrink from closer examination of the puzzling and the obscure. Another is to deny the existence of anything which makes no appeal to organs of sense, and no ready response to laboratory experiment.
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The Birmingham Meeting of the British Association . Nature 91, 618 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091618a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091618a0