Abstract

IT now and then happens in the history of the human race upon this planet, that one particular generation witnesses the most stupendous advancement of knowledge, this advancement generally coming from what one might consider an exceeding small germ of thought. You will at once call to mind several such instances. You will recollect how once a Dutchman experimenting with two spectacle-glasses produced the Telescope; and how the field of the known and the knowable has been enlarged by the invention of that wonderful instrument. Again, you recollect how once Sir Isaac Newton was in a garden and saw an apple fall, and how the germ of thought which was started in his mind by that simple incident fructified into the theory of universal gravitation. You will also acknowledge that each step of this kind has more firmly knit the universe together, has welded it into a more and more perfect whole, and has enhanced the marvellous beauty of its structure.

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