In the laboratories of Europe and America investigations are this very
moment being made into Nature's securest secrets. The mystery of
to-day will be to-morrow's accepted and commonplace truth. One seizes
one's head and closes one's eyes in bewilderment at the possibilities
of science in every direction.
All the great inventions, all the great discoveries, made! How like
the egotism of the infinitesimal mind of the human race that thought
this!
If all the great inventions and discoveries have been made, man has
already mastered all of the laws of God's universe, and applied them
practically to all conditions and substances in existence. How absurd!
The field of invention and scientific discovery is like that strange
and awful manifestation known as the "Milky Way." We see it with our
naked eye--numberless stars and a pale, growing blur around and behind
them, and we childishly call it the "Milky Way."
That miracle called the telescope is invented; we look again, and
there are more and new stars--but, still farther on in the infinite
depths, the blur of light. Higher and higher goes the power of
telescope after telescope, but all that they reveal is a bewildering
infinitude of more new stars--and beyond that again the "Milky Way.
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