Man Cannot Influence In This Respect The

There Is Something Sublime About Its Aloofness From And Its Indifference To Its External Environment.

[this] May Prove To Be The Beginning Of Some Embracing Generalization, Which Will Throw Light, Not Only On Radioactive Processes, But On Elements In General And The Periodic Law.... Chemical Homogeneity Is No Longer A Guarantee That Any Supposed Element Is Not A Mixture Of Several Of Different Atomic Weights, Or That Any Atomic Weight Is Not Merely A Mean Number.

Innumerable Entirely New Compounds Have Been Produced In The Last Century. The Artificial Dye-stuffs, Prepared From Materials Occurring In Coal-tar, Make The Natural Colours Blush. Saccharin, Which Is Hundreds Of Times Sweeter Than Sugar, Is A Purely Artificial Substance. New Explosives, Drugs, Alloys, Photographic Substances, Essences, Scents, Solvents, And Detergents Are Being Poured Out In A Continuous Stream.

Mankind Has Always Drawn From Outside Sources Of Energy. This Island Was The First To Harness Coal And Steam. But Our Present Sources Stand In The Ratio Of A Million To One, Compared With Any Previous Sources. The Release Of Atomic Energy Will Change The Whole Structure Of Society.

Physical Science Enjoys The Distinction Of Being The Most Fundamental Of The Experimental Sciences, And Its Laws Are Obeyed Universally, So Far As Is Known, Not Merely By Inanimate Things, But Also By Living Organisms, In Their Minutest Parts, As Single Individuals, And Also As Whole Communities. It Results From This That, However Complicated A Series Of Phenomena May Be And However Many Other Sciences May Enter Into Its Complete Presentation, The Purely Physical Aspect, Or The Application Of The Known Laws Of Matter And Energy, Can Always Be Legitimately Separated From The Other Aspects.