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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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To
give
even
a
brief
account
of
all
his
physical
researches
would
require
a
separate
volume;
and
many
of
them
are
too
abstruse
or
mathematical
for
the
general
reader.
His
varied
services
have
been
acknowledged
by
numerous
distinctions,
including
the
highest
honour
a
British
man
of
science
can
obtain--the
Presidency
of
the
Royal
Society
of
London,
to
which
he
was
elected
at
the
end
of
last
year.
Sir
William
Thomson
has
been
all
his
life
a
firm
believer
in
the
truth
of
Christianity,
and
his
great
scientific
attainments
add
weight
to
the
following
words,
spoken
by
him
when
in
the
chair
at
the
annual
meeting
of
the
Christian
Evidence
Society,
May
23,
1889:--'I
have
long
felt
that
there
was
a
general
impression
in
the
non-scientific
world,
that
the
scientific
world
believes
Science
has
discovered
ways
of
explaining
all
the
facts
of
Nature
without
adopting
any
definite
belief
in
a
Creator.
I
have
never
doubted
that
that
impression
was
utterly
groundless.
It
seems
to
me
that
when
a
scientific
man
says--as
it
has
been
said
from
time
to
time--that
there
is
no
God,
he
does
not
express
his
own
ideas
clearly.
He
is,
perhaps,
struggling
with
difficulties;
but
when
he
says
he
does
not
believe
in
a
creative
power,
I
am
convinced
he
does
not
faithfully
express
what
is
in
his
own
mind,
He
does
not
fully
express
his
own
ideas.
He
is
out
of
his
depth.
'We
are
all
out
of
our
depth
when
we
approach
the
subject
of
life.
The
scientific
man,
in
looking
at
a
piece
of
dead
matter,
thinking
over
the
results
of
certain
combinations
which
he
can
impose
upon
it,
is
himself
a
living
miracle,
proving
that
there
is
something
beyond
that
mass
of
dead
matter
of
which
he
is
thinking.
His
very
thought
is
in
itself
a
contradiction
to
the
idea
that
there
is
nothing
in
existence
but
dead
matter.
Science
can
do
little
positively
towards
the
objects
of
this
society.
But
it
can
do
something,
and
that
something
is
vital
and
fundamental.
It
is
to
show
that
what
we
see
in
the
world
of
dead
matter
and
of
life
around
us
is
not
a
result
of
the
fortuitous
concourse
of
atoms.
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