Major Prophets of To-Day

by Edwin E. Slosson

[4] Der energetische Imperativ, Ann. d. Nat. Phil., Vol. X.

[5] Printed in The Independent, October 19, 1911.

[6] See Flammarion's scientific fantasy, Lumen.

[7] Laughter. An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. By Henri Bergson. The Macmillan Company.

[8] Die Ueberwindung des wissenschaftlichen Materialismus. Lübeck address before the German Association of Naturalists and Physicians.

[9] J. Willard Gibbs: "Thermodynamische Studien." Uebersetzt von W. Ostwald. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1892.

[10] Nature, 64, 428 (1901).

[11] "Kultur und Duell" in "Die Forderung des Tages."

[12] Ostwald devoted the $40,000 he got from the Nobel Fund to the attempt to introduce a new language, Ido. Mistral devoted his to the attempt to perpetuate an old language, Provençal. So we see that dynamite money, like dynamite itself, exerts its force in opposite directions.

[13] Spencer laid the foundation of his philosophy in the essay on "Progress: Its Law and Cause" more than twenty years before the publication of Clausius's "Die mechanische Warmetheorie."