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Excerpt from The Making of a Man
As the spokesman of Science before the British Association in 1 874 Professor Tyn dall declared that the universe was a mechanism, and that he saw in matter the promise and potency of all forms of life. As the spokesman of Science before the British Association in 1 898 Sir William Crookes declared that the universe was an organism, and that he saw in life the promise and potency of all forms of matter. The celebrated Belfast address was the last influential and authoritative utterance by a leader of the atomistic succession of mechanical thinkers. Not since have the philosophical atoms of Democritus and Epicurus and Lucretius had so conspicuous an opportunity to whirl and dance in imaginative splendor before the eyes of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
