25 AUGUST 1900, page 9

Depressive Ceremonials.

T HE Americans have succeeded in doing what we should have thought impossible,—they have spread the impres- sion of a funeral service at one and the same indivisible point of......

Coal And Electricity. T He Daily Mail Of Tuesday Gave An

account of a new electrical discovery which promises, if all that is claimed for it proves true, to have consequences of extra- ordinary importance. It is rather, indeed, a......

The First Principles Of Nescience.

O UR British incapacity for philosophy was markedly shown upwards of a generation ago by the reception given to the late Dean Mansel's speculations as to the Absolute and......