“It is rather remarkable that the majority of learned men have closed their minds to what seemed bare and simple facts to many people.”

— Oliver Lodge

Raymond, p. 367 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=409
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

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British physicist 1851–1940

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