Man Cannot Influence In This Respect The

Innumerable Entirely New Compounds Have Been Produced In The Last Century. The Artificial Dye-stuffs, Prepared From Materials Occurring In Coal-tar, Make The Natural Colours Blush. Saccharin, Which Is Hundreds Of Times Sweeter Than Sugar, Is A Purely Artificial Substance. New Explosives, Drugs, Alloys, Photographic Substances, Essences, Scents, Solvents, And Detergents Are Being Poured Out In A Continuous Stream.

An Inexplicable Fact Is Infinitely Preferable To An Incomprehensible Mystery.

It Is Probable That All Heavy Matter Possesses - Latent And Bound Up With The Structure Of The Atom - A Similar Quantity Of Energy To That Possessed By Radium. If It Could Be Tapped And Controlled What An Agent It Would Be In Changing The World's Destiny! The Man Who Put His Hand On The Lever By Which A Parsimonious Nature Regulates So Jealously The Output Of This Store Of Energy Would Possess A Weapon By Which He Could Destroy The Earth If He Chose.

Chemistry Has Been Termed By The Physicist As The Messy Part Of Physics, But That Is No Reason Why The Physicists Should Be Permitted To Make A Mess Of Chemistry When They Invade It.

The Laws Expressing The Relations Between Energy And Matter Are, However, Not Solely Of Importance In Pure Science. They Necessarily Come First In Order ... In The Whole Record Of Human Experience, And They Control, In The Last Resort, The Rise Or Fall Of Political Systems, The Freedom Or Bondage Of Nations, The Movements Of Commerce And Industry, The Origin Of Wealth And Poverty, And The General Physical Welfare Of The Race.