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SIR OLIVER LODGE oould not write a dull or uninteresting book if he tried. In this book he puts forward his own views so modestly and discusses the view of others so lucidly and fairly that it is an ungrateful task to criticise him. At the same time he states the problems so fully and candidly that he provides all the material needed for criticism. His main object is to find a place for life and mind in the world of physics, or rather behind the world of physics as a primordial ingredient of the universe. In the reviewer's opinion he is looking in the wrong direction for the solution of the problem, and if his theory were true the problem would be of its very nature insoluble. Of course the problem may be insoluble.
Beyond Physics, or the Idealisation of Mechanism: being a Survey and Attempted Extension of Modern Physics in a Philosophical and Psychical direction.
Sir Oliver Lodge. Pp. 172. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1930.) 5s. net.
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Ritchie, A. Beyond Physics, or the Idealisation of Mechanism: being a Survey and Attempted Extension of Modern Physics in a Philosophical and Psychical direction . Nature 126, 268–270 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126268a0
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