Address by Sir by Oliver J. Lodge

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Excerpt from Address by Sir by Oliver J. Lodge: ContinuityPrinciples are conventions and definitions in disguise. They are, however, deduced from experimental laws, and these laws have, so to speak, been erected into principles to which our mind attributes an absolute value.' The fundamental propositions of geometry, for instance Euclid's postulate, are only conventions, and it is quite as nu reasonable to ask if the-y are true or false as to ask if the metric system is true or false. Only, these conventions are con venient.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.