Bliss, Harding

OF all the Graces that cluster about the throne of Venus the most timid and elusive is that maiden whom inertols ceil Happiness, None is so eagerly pursued none so hard to win. Indeed, only the saints and martyrs, unknown usually to their fellow rnun. have made her theirs and they have attained her by burning out the Ego-sense in themselves in the white-hot steel of meditation, by dissolving themselves in that divine ocean of Consciousness whose foam is passionless and perfect bliss. 

Embalming is indeed a most extraordinary procedure, and one must wonder at the docility of Americans who each year pay hundreds of millions of dollars for its perpetuation, blissfully ignorant of what it is all about, what is done, how it is done. Not one in ten thousand has any idea of what actually takes place. Books on the subject are extremely hard to come by. They are not to be found in most libraries or bookshops. 

Acknowledgment must be made to teachers and colleagues who, over the years, have had influence in what is to be found in this text. I am grateful to the late Charles E. Littlejohn and R. Harding Bliss, to Professors C. A. Walker, H. M. Hulburt, and R. L. Burwell, Jr., and especially to Professor C. O. Bennett, who offered many constructive and undoubtedly kind comments during preparation of this manuscript. 

Progress in research was accompanied by frustration in the classroom, and in 1956, Harding Bliss, then editor of the AIChE Journal, took issue with the development of the macroscopic mechanical balance. In an editorial entitled "Derivation of the Mechanical Energy Balance A Plea for Simplicity" Prof. Bliss wrote... 

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