Excerpt from The Making of a Man
As the spokesman of Science before the British Association in 1 874 Professor Tyn dall declared that the universe was a mechanism, and that he saw in matter the promise and potency of all forms of life. As the spokesman of Science before the British Association in 1 898 Sir William Crookes declared that the universe was an organism, and that he saw in life the promise and potency of all forms of matter. The celebrated Belfast address was the last influential and authoritative utterance by a leader of the atomistic succession of mechanical thinkers. Not since have the philosophical atoms of Democritus and Epicurus and Lucretius had so conspicuous an opportunity to whirl and dance in imaginative splendor before the eyes of.
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