[69] Proceedings Amsterdam Academy of Sciences, 1900, p. 559.
[70] Monthly Notices, vol. lxii., p. 619; vol. lxiii., p. 258.
[71] Monthly Notices, vol. lxiii., p. 424.
[72] J. J. Thomson, Electricity and Matter, p. 88.
[73] Ibid., p. 47.
[CHAPTER XI]
THE INEVITABLE ETHER
Ether is the fundamental postulate of physics. Its existence, nowise apparent, is in all manner of ways implied. The properties that must be assigned to it are certainly arduous of conception. We need the aid of forced analogies to enable us to realize, even imperfectly and indistinctly, the mode in which it discharges functions obviously somehow discharged. But in the last resort everything is obscure; if our thought-borings go deep enough, they always reach the incomprehensible.