AMBITIONS OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE.
In Science Progress for March, Professor Fitzgerald of Dublin University concludes his essay on physical science and its connections, with these sanguine remarks:—
The greatest problems at present before physical investigators are the structure of ether and matter. We can hardly doubt that they are dynamically constructed. They are every day more conclusively shown to be dynamical systems, subject to the laws of momentum, of energy, of action and reaction. Are they so in their minutest parts ? There seems little doubt but that they are. If so, what is their structure ? . . . . We want to get a road opened up into these dark continents. We want to know the structure of matter and its internal motions, and we * look to the physical investigator. . . . We look to the chemist. . . , We hope some day to know so much of these internal motions and of these structures that w*e may be able to discover the structure in the brain that betokens memory, and the motions underlying great thoughts, goodness, love. We may then hope to form some dim scientific judgement of the thoughts underlying creation. We may be able to tell what thoughts underlie the motions of a solar system or the developement of a race. —Review of Reviews.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVI, Issue 1323, 28 August 1894, Page 3
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209AMBITIONS OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVI, Issue 1323, 28 August 1894, Page 3
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