"Now, whether the main outlines of the world-picture which 

 I have just imperfectly presented to you be destined to survive, 

 or whether in their turn they are to be obliterated by some new 

 drawing on the scientific palimpsest, all will, I think, admit 

 that so bold an attempt to unify physical nature excites feelings 

 of the most acute intellectual gratification. The satisfaction 

 it gives is almost (esthetic in its intensity and quality. We 

 feel the same sort of pleasurable shock as when from the crest 

 of some melancholy pass we first see far below us the sudden 

 glories of plain, river, and mountain" 



" Reflections Suggested by the New Theory of Matter. " Inaugural 

 Address by the RIGHT HON. A. J. BALFOUR, PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH 

 ASSOCIATION. August, 1904. 



