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1874–1953 England

Ernest William Barnes (April 1, 1874 – November 29, 1953) was an English mathematician and scientist who became a liberal theologian and was ordained in the Anglican Church in 1902. In 1898 he was awarded the first Smith's Prize in mathematics.

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The astonishing thing about Einstein's equations is that they appear to have come out of nothing.

Human experience has pronounced "black magic" a delusion. Its practice is criminal folly: criminal because its objective is evil, folly because the means employed are futile.

Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1918)

We see in man three elements; the material body, the life principle and the element of human personality. The last has only slowly reached its present complexity and is still far from the power and perfection that we can imagine it will some day possess.

Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1918)

Our own attitude to intercourse with "spirits" must be determined not by the authority of great teachers of the 13th or any other century, but by our examination in the light of the best secular knowledge of our time of the revelation of spiritual truth given by Christ.

Spiritualism and the Christian Faith (1918)

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