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    Science and the Unseen World
    Science and the Unseen World
    Science and the Unseen World
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    Science and the Unseen World

    By Arthur Stanley Eddington

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    Physicist and astronomer Arthur Eddington tested Einstein's Theory of Relativity at an eclipse in 1919. A lifelong Quaker, his 1929 Swarthmore Lecture explores how science and religion define and look at reality. ‘You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.’ ‘He puts a strong line against simplistic reductionism in relation to our minds . He emphasizes that when we ask the question, “What are we to think of it all? What is it all about?,” the answer must embrace but not be limited to the scientific answer. His lecture explores this in a delightful way, that remains fully relevant today.’ — Prof. George Ellis 'The attitude of the scientist, here so admirably explained, is the attitude, also, of the mystic. Experience, to both, is what matters most.”’- The Sufi Quarterly, 1929.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMuriwai Books
    Release dateJan 13, 2019
    ISBN9781789123722
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      SWARTHMORE LECTURE, 1929

      SCIENCE AND THE UNSEEN WORLD

      BY

      ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON, F.R.S.

      Plumson Professor of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

      PREFACE 4

      SYNOPSIS 5

      SCIENCE AND THE UNSEEN WORLD 6

      II 9

      III 10

      IV 13

      V 16

      VI 18

      VII 21

      VIII 24

      IX 26

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 28

      PREFACE

      The Swarthmore Lectureship was established by the Woodbrooke Extension Committee, at a meeting held December 7th, 1907: the minute of the Committee providing for an annual lecture on some subject relating to the message and work of the Society of Friends. The name Swarthmore was chosen in memory of the home of Margaret Fox, which was always open to the earnest seeker after Truth, and from which loving words of sympathy and substantial material help were sent to fellow-workers.

      The Lectureship has a two-fold purpose: first, to interpret further to the members of the Society of Friends their Message and Mission; and, secondly, to bring before the public the spirit, the aims and the fundamental principles of the Friends.

      The Lectures have been delivered on the evening preceding the assembly of the Friends’ Yearly Meeting in each year. The present Lecture was delivered at Friends House, London, on the evening preceding the Yearly Meeting, 1929.

      SYNOPSIS

      I—Outline of evolution leading to the advent of Man in the physical world—-

      II—The questioning voice, What doest thou here?

      III—Changing views of the scope of physical theory and the ideal of physical explanation——-

      IV—Both a scientific and a mystical outlook are involved in the problem of experience

      V—The irrelevancy of natural law to some aspects of mind and consciousness——-

      VI—The importance of significances and the consequences of ruling them outside the scope of inquiry-

      VII—Assurance of the revelation of God rather than of the existence of God is demanded———

      VIII—In everyday life (both material and spiritual) scientific analysis supplements but must not supplant a familiar outlook———

      IX—The spirit of Seeking in science and in religion———

      SCIENCE AND THE UNSEEN WORLD

      Looking back through the long past we picture the beginning of the world—a primeval chaos which time has fashioned into the universe that we know. Its vastness appals the mind; space boundless though not infinite, according to the strange doctrine of science. The world was without form and almost void. But at the earliest

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