# Gallio

Author: Sullivan, J. W. N. (John William Navin), 1886-1937

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76629

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Gallio+Sullivan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There can be no doubt that the prestige of science has greatly increased of recent times. In the days when Dickens wrote _The Mudfog Papers_ the man of science, to the general reading public, was a purely comic figure. After the man of science had knocked the bottom out of the Victorian universe with his theory of Natural Selection he inspired the respect we accord to whatever is both powerful and sinister. He was observed, warily and acutely, as an enemy. This reaction was perfectly justified, for science, as expounded to the populace by such men as Huxley and Tyndall, deprived life of all that had hitherto made it worth living. The gravamen of their offence was not that they made man an...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gallio-76629/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gallio-76629/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gallio-76629/chapters/3/index.md)