John M. Watson

              1927

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JOHN M. WATSON Author - Lecturer
The man who makes up-to-date science interesting and understandable.  His lectures are a great help in keeping up with the swift pace of scientific progress.

To arrange speaking engagements write
L. O. HAMMOND
Suite 1005 Peoples Gas Building
CHICAGO
Phone Harrison 7515




The Great
An entire universe the telescope reveals.



The Small
What the microscope shows of meteoric iron.



Lecture Subjects

1.
THE WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS.
2.
GOD'S OTHER WORLDS AND UNIVERSES.
These astronomy lectures are illustrated by the finest stereopticon slides in the world, made by the great observatories.

3.
THE MODERN VERSION OF THE ATOMIC THEORY.  (Illustrated)
4.
THE UNSEEN WORLD.  (Illustrated)
The beautiful and wonderful revelations of the microscope.

5.
THE HARMONY OF THE SCIENCES.
6.
IMPROVING OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.



I have heard Mr. Watson speak on Astronomy a number of times and his lectures stand out in my mind as an unending inspiration.  He brings a gracious personality to his work and approaches the mystery of the universe with a keen intellectual accuracy and spiritual insight.  His lectures are interesting, instructive and inspiring.

— REV. PHILIP E. GREGORY.

Mr. Watson's lecture on Astronomy gave our students an appreciation of our wonderful universe and will be a real inspiration in their lives.  He has the rare ability of a teacher in presenting his subject.

—HARRY D. ABELLS, Superintendent, Morgan Park Military Academy.

What they say of Mr. Watson and his book
SCIENCE AS REVELATION
recently published by Macmillan
(For sale at all book stores)

What a book!  I got started in it yesterday and read on and on until I finished last night—or this morning rather—and then when I went to bed I could not sleep.  Those big, wide, high concepts kept me musing and pondering most of the night.  This is a remarkable piece of work, a remarkable bit of synthesis.  Personally I needed this book.  It clarifies and fortifies my thinking.  A splendid book!  I am acquainted with certain persons who should be compelled at the point of the bayonet to read it.

—Dean of Instruction, State Normal School.

With a few very simple changes of a dozen words or so, I should be as proud of having written portions of this book as any similar number of pages produced anywhere in my lifetime.  The author has developed the ideals with wonderful conciseness and has carried through the basic scientific abstractions in a way that delights me and commands my highest respect.  Here is integrated scientific knowledge at its best.  Here is a synthesis I have long looked and hoped for.  A splendid achievement.

—An Author of Scientific Books.





A compendium of incontrovertible facts, arranged in order of chronological evolvement, stated in unequivocable terms.  A vista of natural law operation, of which the interpretation is absolutely correct, presented in a manner of which the clarity and lucidity are second to none.

—A Critic.

This book is of value to all earnest students and particularly to those who may have become confused by many theories and need to make a logical review of their ideas in the light of the best knowledge available.  I am sure nothing so comprehensive has been undertaken by any writer for the lay reader.

—A Scientist.

Mr. Watson's book is of true educational service in helping inadequate thinkers and lazy minds to get their bearings in the present conflict of opinions.  Many professed leaders of thought have neglected to know, or have feared to express, such enlightened ideas and thus have left their people to flounder in obscurantism.

—A College President.

The author calls successively to the witness stand every science so far recorded, and from each he wrings the testimony: All is law, order, progress, immutable law.  The source of energy, the first cause, science does not attempt to explain; enough that in the moral world also the same reign of law shows that the whole creation moves obedient to the same controlling power.

—The Booklist, American Library Association.

This is a really very valuable addition to the literature of science and religion.  Its summing up of the present findings of science is admirable.  An exceedingly interesting and valuable volume.

—A Doctor of Divinity.

For years I have hungered and thirsted for a constructive, competent statement of reconciliations and interpretations such as Science as Revelation contains.  The satiation this book has afforded that hunger is a memorable feast.  It surpasses anything I have encountered.  No volume of years' browsings has so filled my soul with thrilling satisfaction.

—A Minister.

The book is written without prejudice of religious bias, without an overtopping interest in one branch of science, but written with clarity and a piercing directness of mind.  While reading it I was hardly able to put it down despite clamoring calls of duty.  The author has given to many, hungering for its message, a stabilizing, balanced, inspiring trend of thought which will bless.

—A Prominent Club Woman.

This certainly is a fine book.  I have enjoyed it immensely.  I have stolen every minute I could from other activities to get back to the reading of this book.  The author has done a valuable piece of work in tracing the development of energy through its ascending stages.  The sense of movement through the whole of science is fine.

—A Minister.

This book is most splendidly written, and with a knowledge so convincing as to make clear to the lay mind facts one might be in doubt about.  I congratulate the literary world for this contribution.

—A Club Woman.

To my mind there are two interesting things about this treatise.  First, the broad and sympathetic understanding of the sciences, philosophy and true religion exhibited in the compilations; and, second, the courageous manner in which debated questions are discussed and explained in the light of present day knowledge.  This book deserves, and I am confident it will receive, a wide distribution.

—A Critic.

This is a man's book par excellence.  As a summary of the status of scientific knowledge for the layman to read, it is remarkable.

—An Editor.