The Idolatry of Science 



them can be truly recorded as bringing 

 benefits to mankind. 



Certainly Chevalier Marconi's perfecting 

 of wireless telegraphy has been the means of 

 saving lives at sea ; but even that discovery 

 in the hands of Germans can be used equally 

 for their destruction. 



When the brothers Wright invented the 

 flying machine the sanguine might have been 

 forgiven for indulging in the hope that here 

 at last had arrived an invention of Science 

 that would bring to mankind spectacles of 

 splendour surpassing all the dreams of the 

 poets, conferring upon us the ecstasy of 

 Mercury 



When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds 

 And sails upon the bosom of the air " 



and the dreams of Apollo, 



" As when on high 

 He walks the impalpable and pathless sky ; " 



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