The Beginnings of Things, Or, Science Versus Theology: An Address By Prof ...
The Beginnings of Things, Or, Science Versus Theology: An Address By Prof ...
John Tyndall, British Association for the Advancement of Science
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In our day there are secessions from the theo- ry, but it still stands firm. Only a year or two ago Sir William Thompson, with characteristic penetra- tion, sought to determine the sizes of the atoms, or rather to fix the limits between which their sizes lie ; while only last year the discourses of Williamson and Maxwell illustrate the present hold of the d^'^trinA upon the foremost scientific minds. Wha atoms, self-moved and self-posited, can and accomplish in relation to life, is at the pres(... ment the subject of profound scientific thouj 3 Digitized by Google 26 THE BEGINNINGS OF THINGS. doubt the legitimacy of Maxwell's logic ; but it is impossible not to feel the ethic glow with which his lecture concludes. There is, moreover, a Lucretian gi-andeur in his description of the steadfastness of the atoms : — *' Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length de- stroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and the whole solar system.
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