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the cultivated Japanese. It is Agnostic,
and not very respectful to religion. He
regards religions as man s " self-constructed
idols " (p. 162), and thinks that the future
is " deeply shrouded in mystery " (p. 163).
On his return to America he devoted him
self entirely to astronomy. He established
the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, in
connection with the Harvard Observatory,
in 1894. In 1902 he was appointed non
resident professor of astronomy to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For
his protracted and splendid work in con
nection with Mars he got the Janssen
medal of the French Astronomical Society
and the gold medal of the Sociedad Astro-
nomica of Mexico. See his Mars (1895)
and Mars and its Canals (1906). His
Evolution of Worlds (1909) is the finest
work of its kind. D. Nov. 13, 1916.
LOZANO, Fernando, Spanish writer. Lozano is one of the bravest and most fiery of popular Spanish Eationalists. He has been prosecuted more than a hundred times, and ho boasts that nearly every bishop in Spain has excommunicated him. He has ever been a prominent figure at the annual Congresses. He edits Las Dominicales del Libre Pensamicnto, and has written a number of Eationalist works.
LUBBOCK, Sir John. See AVEBURY.
LUC I AN I, Professor Luigi, Italian physiologist. B. Nov. 23, 1842. Ed, Bologna and Leipzig Universities. Luciani was in early years professor at Parma, then at Siena. In 1881 he was appointed pro fessor of physiology at the Institute of Higher Studies, Florence, and he succeeded Moleschott as professor of physiology at Eome University and Director of the Physiological Institute. His Localizationi funzionali del cervello (1885) was crowned by the Lombard Institute. He is a Senator, a Commander of the Orders of S. S. Lazarus and Maurice and the Crown of Italy, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and foreign member of the Imperial
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German Academy and the Brussels Academy
of Medicine. His views resemble those of
Moleschott, and are of a Materialist ten
dency.
LUDOYICI, Anthony, writer. B. 1882. Ed. privately and abroad. Ludovici began his career as an artist and illustrator, but he turned to literature, and became especially an advocate of Nietzscheanism. He has translated six of Nietzsche s works, and written Nietzsche (1910) and Nietzsche and Art (1911). He served in the War (1914-19) as captain, and has since been attached to the Intelligence Staff of the War Office. He shares Nietzsche s view of religion, and is an able lecturer as well as writer.
LUGONES, Professor Leopoldo, South American poet. B. 1869. Lugones is the leading poet of Argentina. He is professor of literature at the National College at Buenos Aires, and editor of the Revue Sud- Americaine. South Americans compare him to Gabriele d Annunzio, and there is fine poetry in his Montanas de Oro. He has also written novels and literary works, and a Eationalistic account of the famous Jesuit missions in Paraguay (El Imperio Jesuitico).
LUNDQYIST, Alfred, Swedish writer. B. Oct. 21, 1860. Ed. Upsala University. At the university he absorbed the works of Mill, Darwin, and Spencer, and became an enthusiast for Eationalism. He lost a scholarship at the university by ti anslating from the Danish a Eationalistic life of Christ, and took to journalism. In 1888 he joined the active Eationalist movement, and became one of its most influential writers. In the same year he suffered a month in prison for translating a pamphlet by Joseph Symes.
LUTTRELL, Henry, writer. B. about
1765. He entered the Irish Parliament in
1798, but in 1802 went out to the West
Indies to manage his father s estates (being
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