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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph McCabe |
OCLC Number: | 11154590 |
Notes: | Printed 1 May 1943. Cf. My second 25 years / E. Haldeman-Julius, p. 93. Later series title: Self educator no. 9. |
Description: | 32 pages ; 13 cm. |
Series Title: | Little blue book, no. 1770.; Self-educator series, no. 9. |
Responsibility: | by Joseph McCabe. |
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Review of ‘Man the creator; physics as the basis of engineering’ (# 1770) by Joseph McCabe.
CITATION: McCabe, J. (1943) ‘Man the creator; physics as the basis of engineering’ (Little Blue Book No. 1770, Self-educator series, no. 9). Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company
Reviewer: Dr W. P. Palmer.
This is thirty-two-page Little Blue Book written by Joseph McCabe. It is divided into four chapters entitled:
The forces of nature
Science coordinates and controls them
Steam and gas create wealth
Electrons in harness
The self-educator series was written by Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) in 1943 and consists of fifty Little Blue Books from #1762, “What is wrong with the world” to #1811 “Man today faces his greatest opportunity”, with all fifty completed in about six months. This represents a huge intellectual effort by McCabe, then aged 77, on topics somewhat different to his usual subject base. The problem with this book is that very little of the book concerns physics and engineering. McCabe frequently looses the point in this book and several others is in this series.
The book contains a history of science, attacks on the Catholic Church, attacks on four scientists, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, Robert Millikan and Oliver Lodge. These attacks are not due to their scientific discoveries but because they have religious views and were outspoken in their belief that the “ether” did not exist whereas to McCabe and to his hero, Ernst Haeckel, the existence of “ether” had become an essential plank in a creed of materialism. Towards the end of the book he does move towards considering problems of physics and engineering, concentrating on the power of the electron. He talks about splitting the atom (p.30) and the power that might be released but is confused in his account as perhaps many others were in 1943.
BILL PALMER
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