THE heartening fact to those interested in enlightening their fellowmen is that more and more books on this subject are coming to the front and gaining the ear of the public, and that even men of science are turning their attention to a study of the mind, with an ever increasing number who are brave enough to announce their conclusions in books and scientific journals. While newspaper editors and writers, always alert for the new and sensational, when a noted scientist gets off the beaten track—rises above the mass consciousness of his brother scientists, until recently priding themselves as being purely materialistic—and publicly states facts such as the above, give these facts prominent space in their newspapers, and often with glaring headlines.

Just a short time ago the United Press gave out an article that was printed in many newspapers, quoting Dr. Charles Francis Potter, founder and leader of the First Humanist Society of New York, as criticizing a noted book, Man the Unknown, by Dr. Alexis Carrel, a noted surgeon, scientist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1912, with the following headlines: Surgeon Hit For Theories About Prayer. Nobel Prize Winner Stirs Scientific Row With Book On Curative Powers. Recognizes “Miracles”.

Then is quoted from Dr. Potter’s statement:

“In remarkable opposition to the consensus among medical men everywhere, he affirms his belief in such debatable phenomena as telepathy, levitation, clairvoyance, mysticism and the therapeutic value of prayer. Dr. Carrel deserves and he will receive severe criticism from his medical colleagues and from the liberal clergy; because he has ventured into the realm of metaphysics, of which he obviously knows little, and has lent to many current superstitions the sanction of his great name.

“From the miraculous healing, which he defends, to voodooism and other charlatanry, is but a short step.”

This is but an example of the narrowness, the bigotry, the partisanship and unfairness of many materialistic scientific minds, and it is well they are thus shown up to the public; for anyone with an open mind reading the article and what is quoted from Dr. Carrel’s book will recognize this narrowness, and will want

Man the Unknown, by Dr. Alexis Carrel.