Category: Debate
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“No Immortality Of The Soul” Says Thomas A. Edison
On the occasion of a Harvard Professor’s death, Edward Marshall asked Thomas Edison about his views on life after death. Searching the inner structure of all things for the fundamental, Edison told me he had come to the conclusion that there is no “supernatural,” or “supernormal,” as the psychic researchers put it — that all…
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When Future Historian Comes To 1910
Back in 1910 the New York Times Sunday Magazine had a regular weekly column in which two characters known as the Office Radical and the Office Philosopher debate two sides of an issue. I’ve read a few of their debates while doing research for this blog, but I haven’t published any of their columns here…
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