Professor Huskins

audiobook

Professor Huskins

by Lettie M. Cummings

EN·~6 hours·28 chapters

Chapters

28 total
1

Professor HuskinsBy Lettie M. Cummings

0:50
2

CHAPTER ONE

13:16
3

CHAPTER TWO

10:15
4

CHAPTER THREE

7:26
5

CHAPTER FOUR

14:17
6

CHAPTER FIVE

16:30
7

CHAPTER SIX

14:12
8

CHAPTER SEVEN

10:59
9

CHAPTER EIGHT

11:17
10

CHAPTER NINE

5:09

Description

Professor Huskins is a restless thinker who believes the universe follows a single, hidden law of uniformity. To test this, he arranges a daring experiment: three volunteers are placed in a deep, mesmerized state, their bodies inert while their minds are coaxed into offering unfiltered opinions on a fundamental question. Each subject emerges with a distinctly different answer, each seemingly logical, leaving Huskins to wonder how such variance can coexist with a universal order.

His reflections spill beyond the laboratory, challenging the comforts of consistency and the assumptions of his peers. He argues that true wisdom demands continual revision of even the most cherished ideas, and that progress is impossible without embracing change. Listeners are invited into Huskins’s inner debate, tracing his quest to reconcile divergent truths while confronting the limits of scientific certainty.

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Language

en

Duration

~6 hours (359K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Roberta Staehlin, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2011-03-11

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

LM

Lettie M. Cummings

An early 20th-century novelist remembered for the 1916 book Professor Huskins, a story that blends science, emotion, and unsettling experiments in mesmerism. Very little biographical information appears to have survived online, which gives the work an extra air of mystery.

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