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T C Lethbridge – A Step in the Dark

Once again there is this remarkable link between insect and food. You may walk about the countryside for days without finding the corpse of a bird, mammal, or even a rotting fungus, yet Necrophorus finds such relics unerringly. If you - find –the corpse, there on many occasions you will find the beetle. No wonder Fabre believed the insect's capability for following unsmellable smells.

I wish Fabre could have known about these [pendulum] rates. His knowledge was so much greater than mine, that he could have suggested many other lines of approach. But he never gave way to the modern scientific disease of feeling he must try to prove things. He simply stated the facts which he had observed and these carried absolute conviction to his readers.

With scientists and our extra sensory problems there is some mental shortcoming, which is worse than any dogma of the church.

So many so-called learned men have such a dread of investigating the facts, that one wonders if they are quite right in the head.

They have no longer got the true scientific outlook and, when faced with a phenomenon known to a very large proportion of humanity, reply crossly, 'There is no such thing. I was not taught it for my degree.' Of course they were not taught it.

Victorian science was based on a study of three dimensions.

Clearly there are many more.