Dr. Arthur D. Carpenter: scientist

              Dr.
ARTHUR D. CARPENTER
 Scientist


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Eloquent, Inspiring Discussions By a Man of Tremendous Enthusiasm




CARPENTER 
Eloquent in Sublime Thought
A Man of Big Ideas



T
HE secret of Dr. Carpenter's amazing success in the lecture field lies not so much in the subject matter as in the man himself.  He makes his lectures live.  His talks are vibrant with amazingly interesting fact and through every sentence permeates the tremendous enthusiasm of a man of big ideas.




Dr. Carpenter is famed as a man with a wonderful grasp of scientific subjects who can present his ideas in a most popular style.  He has generated the world of cold scientific fact with dynamic enthusiasm.  He has literally electrified his subject.  Whether he is discussing the relation of mind to matter, the planetary system, radio telegraphy, the soul and its divine nature, or the 
India Monsoon,
 there is always a tremendous tenseness in his handling of the subject that holds his audience enchanted.




Enthusiasm has been defined as the power of God made manifest in a human being.  That enthusiasm radiates from Carpenter's eyes, his face, his voice and his soul.  He is one great radiative personality.




Into the Realm of the Beyond



DOCTOR CARPENTER takes you into the realm of infinite creation and makes the biggest truths of the universe seem real and natural.  His lectures are inspiring as well as educational.  They are thrilling.  He imparts that enthusiastic desire, born of the soul, to go forth to live the bigger and greater life.  He catches the deepest vital emotions and literally hurls them at his audience.  In the fullness of his matured life and in his vast contact with men and the universe, Dr. Carpenter has the great message for the hour.




It can be truthfully said that Dr. Carpenter is perhaps the best known popular lecturer on scientific subjects in America.  During the past few years he has attracted wide attention, particularly in the west.  See sketch in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.




There is in his work that most desired of all qualities, the human touch.  He is a man of brilliant mentality, enabled by years of thorough study and investigation to present accurate, authoritative results in the world of scientific research.  Science suggests dullness or dryness.  Not so with Carpenter—he makes his subjects live, and he puts into them every ounce of enthusiasm and earnestness.





LECTURES 
The Romance of the Infinite

Popularizing Scientific Research
The Energy of the Universe



This lecture correlates the forces of the Universe, and shows Man his place in the Universe; the mental attitude necessary for grasping the true meaning of Nature.  Deals with CENTERS OF ENERGY, including Sun, Stars, Earth, Radio-Telegraphy and Telephony; Radiative Personality; Scientific Research in the Realm of Thought Transmission—or Mental Telepathy; the Scientific Path for the Study of the Problem of Survival after Death; NATURE AND ORIGIN OF MATTER; Radio-Activity of Matter; the Transmutation of Matter; the Relation of Mind to Matter; the Telescope and Primitive Matter; the Great Store-house of Energy; Back of that Great Store-house, WHAT?





Worlds in the Making



A stirring, brief survey of the development of Astronomy from ancient times, including Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir William Herschel; the Structure of the Universe; Distance to the Nearest Star; to the average first magnitude Star; to the Milky Way; to Remote Spiral Nebula; Looking through the Telescope at Diffuse Nebulae; New Stars within Diffuse Nebulae; How they grew; Planetary Nebulae—their appearance and how they came to exist; the Size of our world with reference to the Nearest Fixed Star; International, Racial, and Social Relations on our Planet viewed in the light of Man's Place in the Universe; Is There a Supreme Intelligence?





The Immanence of God



The Presentation of Three Self-evident Final Entities; the Manifestation of Universal Law throughout the Universe; Law Proven to Be Universal Law; the Manifestation of Universal Intelligence; Universal Intelligence Indicative of Universal Presence of Infinite Mind; the Harmony of this Scientific Truth with the Sacred Scriptures; How Man May Come in Contact with Infinite Mind; the Three-fold Nature of Man; the Soul and its Divine Nature; the Relation of Mind to the outer Universe and to the Inner Soul; the Opening of the Soul to the Divine Inflow; How a Human Being Becomes a God-Man.  These marvelous truths set forth by the Scriptures.





Man and Meteorology



Man's Place of Residence on the Planet not Accidental; the Laws of the Weather; Defining Meteorology; the Barometer Interpreted; Simplified Explanation of the Universal Planetary Wind Systems; Storm Centers—How They Form and How They Travel; the 
Lows
 and the 
Highs
 of the Weather Man; How Clouds are Formed; the Beauty and the Wonder of the Clouds; the Balancing of the Clouds; Why a Chinook Wind is a Hot, Dry Wind; the Tropical Tornado and Why it Travels Northward Only at Certain Seasons of the Year—the Law Unfolded; the Marvel of the India Monsoon; Hail-stones and How They are Formed; a Hail Storm Studied at Close Range in a Balloon Ascension.







The Carpenter Lectures



From everywhere comes highest praise for the Carpenter lectures.  Excerpts from comment in various cities follow:




Tacoma
 — 
You have chosen in 'Worlds in the Making' a tremendous subject.  Your handling of it leaves a tremendous impression.
 — 
Prin. W. W. Parker, High School
.




Redland, California
 — 
Dr. Carpenter is an interesting, enthusiastic and most inspiring speaker.




Portland, Oregon
 — 
In addition you combined a personal and inspirational lecture which is of even greater value.




El Paso, Texas
 — 
Dr. Carpenter's lecture was one of the treats of the Chautauqua.  He handles a big subject as only a big man can do it.




Vancouver, B. C.
 — 
Dr. Carpenter is a very eloquent, forceful speaker and presents his statements of fact in an interesting way.




Dr. Arthur Walwyn Evans says of him:
 
Dr. Carpenter is a lecturer who presents the wonders of astronomy in a manner that grasps interest and wins hearts.  There is an enthusiasm in his efforts that marks the man who is born to his life work.  I have heard him often, always with pleasure and profit.





What New Zealand Thought of Dr. Carpenter



Dr. Carpenter spent several months in New Zealand in 1919–20.  The New Zealand press commended him as a truly great speaker with a great theme.  Excerpts from the New Zealand press follow:




Dr. Carpenter is a forceful, fluent and rapid speaker, intensely enthusiastic…  His personality is magnetic and impressive.—


The Lyttleton Times (Christ-church).




Possessed of remarkable descriptive power and fired by the glorious majesty of his subject, he literally lifted his audience out into the boundless realms of illimitable space.—


Wanganui Chronicle.




For over an hour the audience literally hung upon the lips of this slim, intellectual looking American with an extraordinary large word output to the minute, a deadly earnest voice, restless hands that are so expressive in their movements, and an infectious humor.—


The Southland Times (Invercargill).




Dr. Carpenter has the gift, rare indeed among men of attainment in difficult subjects, of being able to state abstruse and profound truths in a single and intriguing fashion that seizes the imagination of the unlearned.—


The Evening Star (Dunedin).




His ready flow of words, putting the subject before his hearers in simple and easily understood language, made the doctor's final lecture one to be remembered.—


The Marlborough Express (Blenheim).




The lecturer traversed a wide range of subjects, and the speaker handled them powerfully and earnestly.—


The Thames Star.




It was the triumph of the art of rendering science eloquent and popular.—


The Marlborough Express (Blenheim).




A magnificent lecture.—


The Rotorua Chronicle.




Physics is not an easy thing to make interesting, but the lecturer did achieve this feat, touching lightly on the various aspects of his subject in a way to compel attention…  The lecturer traversed a wide range of subjects, and the speaker handled them powerfully and earnestly.—


The Thames Star (Thames).




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