Ether and Reality: a Series of Discourses on the many Functions of the Ether of Space

Abstract

EVERYTHING that Sir Oliver Lodge writes bears so clear an imprint of his powerful and persuasive personality that a book bearing his name may be confidently anticipated to hold the reader's interest and stir his imagination. In the present little work such an expectation is not disappointed. Sir Oliver has a well-known enthusiasm for a massive, elastic, all-functioning ether of transcendent reality, and his whole-hearted belief finds expression in a lively, yet learned, eloquence which does justice to his theme. He treats of the ether in the most comprehensive spirit, and his book contains not only a survey of all the wider problems of physics in connexion with which an ether may be invoked, but also philosophy, elevating moral reflections, and an inspiring vision of the perfectibility of man.

Ether and Reality: a Series of Discourses on the many Functions of the Ether of Space.

By Sir Oliver Lodge. (The Broadcast Library.) Pp. 179. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1925.) 3s. 6d. net.