Royal Society

He was only 35 at the time that he returned once more to England and became the owner of Beeling's house.

And that same year, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society.

So he rejoined life back in Britain with a pretty good setup.

Yeah, retirement at 35 with, like, plenty of money coming in for the rest of your life.

And in it, he references the Beelings-Bells incident.

Quote, "'The evidence is firsthand.

"'It is practically contemporaneous, "'being based on notes made at the time "'and written out in full within a day or two at most.' The witness is a fellow of the Royal Society who records with scrupulous care the atmospheric conditions, the readings of barometer and thermometer, and points out with justice that the phenomena cannot be explained by the known laws of the electric theory or the expansion of metals by rise of temperature.

And yet, as a witness, Major Moore shows himself on a level with the servant girl who has her fortune told by the cards.

The survivor was gripping a disturbing stone figure about a foot tall.

Experts at the University of Sydney, the Royal Society and the Australian Museum say they cannot identify its origin.

The man said he found it in the yacht's cabin inside a small carved shrine of an ordinary type.

Once he recovered, the survivor told an extraordinary story of piracy and killing.

Candy, Esq., I. C. S., has kindly given me information concerning several Indian names.

Rome, June 1902 Translator's Introduction Hondethio itimosin ho kai momai me no zene Theognis 169 In 1837 the Danish Royal Society of Sciences propounded, as subject for a prize competition, the question with which this treatise opens, and Schopenhauer, who was glad to seize the opportunity of becoming better known, prepared and sent to Copenhagen the earliest form of The Basis of Morality.

In January 1840 the work was pronounced unsuccessful, though there was no other candidate.

In September of the same year it was published by the author with only a few unimportant additions, but preceded by a long introduction which, cast in the form of an exceedingly caustic philippic, is in its way a masterpiece.

For, if there is a solution to these questions, which seem of such boundless importance, our philosopher has given it with incomparable precision and beauty in the following sentence, which, to a certain extent, is only a corollary to the definition of the ideality of time and space.

Peace, rest, and bliss dwell only there where there is no where and no when.

End of section 0 Section 1 of The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer Translated by Arthur Broderick Bullock This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Read by Jeffrey Alan Stumpf The Question and Part 1 Introduction The Question The question advanced by the Royal Society, together with the considerations leading up to it, is as follows.

The original idea of morality, or the leading conception of the supreme moral law, occurs by a necessity which seems peculiar to the subject, but which is by no means a logical one.

And... is endorsed by the central power because it's not enough to just be right.

You have to also have, you know, when the Royal Society was getting off the ground, the reason it's called the Royal Society, you had a bunch of these, you know, what we would now call scientists just writing to each other and figuring stuff out.

And then the king was like, wow, these guys are onto something.

I'm going to give them a royal charter so that everyone understands that these are the eggheads that you should be listening to.

Exactly.

And Bevilacqua brings up the Royal Society too, doesn't he?

He does.

And this is a crucial counterpoint to the idea that there was no pre-existing racial prejudice.

The Royal Society was the absolute center of English science and intellectual life.

Right.

Bevilacqua notes that long before the Caribbean plantation system reached its absolute peak, members of the Royal Society were already intensely preoccupied with African skin color.

They were making color charts.

No.

Well, I mean, a lot of the major scientists are like that, you know, I'm thinking of Isaac Newton, the guy who allegedly discovered gravity, Isaac Newton, Freemason member of the Royal society, Royal society controls all worldwide science, even though it's a British institution.

It controls science.

And to be a member of the hierarchy of the Royal Society, you have to be a Freemason.

But yeah, gravity is just...

I mean, Newton wrote a book called Principia Mathematica, which is obviously a Latin phrase, and he wrote it in Latin, because he did in those days, he didn't write in English.

Its history is slightly messy because different recipes circulated under similar names, and exactly what Charles purchased isn't completely clear.

But the story goes that he acquired the secret of a medicine associated with the physician and chemist Jonathan Goddard, one of the founding figures of the Royal Society.

And if the tale is to be believed, Charles wanted that recipe rather badly.

He reportedly paid somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 pounds for it, probably approaching a million and a half dollars today, which is an enormous amount of money in the 17th century.

But it didn't work.

Charles II died four days later, on the 6th of February, 1685. it didn't work out for charles but this does show us just how ingrained into the upper echelons of society and medical thinking this sort of thing was at the time it's easy to hear about people drinking blood beneath an execution scaffold or merchants smuggling egyptian corpses across the mediterranean assumed that medical cannibalism belonged to the fringes of society but here was one of the most powerful men in europe an intelligent man with a genuine interest in contemporary science experimenting with a medicine derived from the human body But this was also a time of great change.

Around him were physicians, chemists, and members of the newly established Royal Society, who were trying to understand nature through observation and experimentation.

The scientific revolution was underway.

People didn't know it was worthy of their time.

So you had the, um, The the Royal Society launched in the 1600s Sir Isaac Newton was their president, they did the same thing it's like there's all this information we had the smart humans have to come together and curate it so people that people know it's real and what's worthy of their time.

Now, today we actually have two major technological disruptions happening right you had.

UGC and the invention of internet, which was a great invention for everyone.