THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
. Hiv.vu.inu Nature. Alan has largely turned nature upside down in hi- attempts to make her forces subserve his ends. These attempts have .succeeded beyond his wildest dreams of a century ago; yet there are sc,me things he cannot alter. Climate and the alternation of night and day are beyond his interference—p: iliaps even this, in view of ivlwt has been achieved during the present <enturv is a rash prophecy; but at least he. bus gone far in making himself dmost independent of them. “From the beginning," as Dr Slosson. in his delightfn! hook “Chats on Science.” puts it, “man had the power to make it- night whenever he wished by simply .-hutting his eyes; hut he has only recently acquired the art of making it day when he wants to by simply pressing a button.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1926, Page 2
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139THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1926, Page 2
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