"As this paper contains nothing which deserves the name either of experi- 

 ment or discovery, and as it is, in fact, destitute of every species of merit, we 

 should have allowed it to pass among the multitude of those articles which 

 must always find their way into the collections of a society which is pledged 

 to publish two or three volumes every year. . . . We wish to raise our feeble 

 voice against innovations, that can have no other effect than to check the 

 progress of science, and renew all those wild phantoms of the imagination 

 which Bacon and Newton put to flight from her temple." — Opening Paragraph 

 of a Review of Dr. Young's Bakerian Lecture. Edinburgh Re'vinv, January 

 1803, p. 450. 



"Young's work was laid before the Royal Society, and was made the 1801 

 Bakerian Lecture. But he was before his time. The second number of the 

 Edinburgh Rcvieiv contained an article levelled against him by Henry (after- 

 wards Lord) Brougham, and this was so severe an attack that Young's ideas 

 were absolutely quenched for fifteen years. Brougham was then only twenty- 

 four years of age. Young's theory was reproduced in France by Fresnel. In 

 our days it is the accepted theory, and is found to explain all the phenomena of 

 light." — Times Report of a Lecture by Professor TynJall on Light, April 27, 1880. 



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