“Fifty years ago we did not know the atom had a structui’e ; but it had now delivered up its stecret, and was found to consist of very iminute and concentrated electric changes revolving round a nucleus, as the planets revolved round the sun. The discovery was quite recent that the same system of law and order that reigned through the heavens held equally in the interior of the atom,, so that there was an atomic astronomy growing up before our eyes, leading us to wonder if there was any limit to smallness any more than there was anj limit to bigness. Among all these immensities man might appear insignificant, and he was hampered by his animal ancestry. He had much ra contend against and overcome. he seemed evil and ugly, bt '¥%^ was inimature. He was in the malfjllyhr—Sir Oliver Lodge to the BritisilfiAssociation.
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Franklin Times, Volume 11, Issue 867, 21 November 1923, Page 3
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