Science and Expression 



a mere manifestation of oscillations of some 

 postulated imponderable something or nothing 

 filling space every way to infinity, indifferent 

 to the law of gravitation. 



To them thought was a divine participation 

 in the mind of God breathed upon them by 

 the Holy Ghost, and not a mere condition of 

 some of the matter inside their skulls. 



But Science has totally destroyed these 

 amiable illusions, and the great world itself 

 has been shown to be but a crumb ; and man, 

 once the supreme work of God at the head of 

 His universe, has been dejected to a crawling 

 atom creeping about on another atom, in an 

 infinite space, through which it is whirled 

 a thousand miles a minute round the sun, 

 which in its turn is whirled towards a point 

 in the constellation of Hercules at twenty 

 thousand miles an hour, and where the con- 

 stellation of Hercules is going no one knows, 

 for every star in it is hurtling in different 



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