Article August 17, 1929 Issue

In the "Second Nights" column on December 28 the reality...

Orwell Bradley Towne, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,—New York

Herald-Tribune

In the "Second Nights" column on December 28 the reality of matter is brought into question, and it is implied that Christian Scientists are the only ones who are taught that matter is not real.

Professor J. S. Haldane, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Fellow of New College, Oxford, and honorary professor of the University of Birmingham, England, made the following statement in his article, "Natural Science and Religion," as published in the Hibbert Journal in London, in April, 1923: "The world as represented in the language of physical science can only be, as I have tried to show, a world of unreal abstractions. If, however, we mistake it for reality itself, we are only following a shadow."

Speaking along the same line, Lord Balfour, in his presidential address as head of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, as far back as 1904 made the statement, "The atom is now no more than the relatively vast theater of operation in which minute monads perform their ordinary evolution, while the monads themselves are now regarded not as units of matter, but as units of electricity; so that matter is not merely explained, but explained away."

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