The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-03-17 00:00:00

i).7")4e stottrbvibge Oberber;

SATURDAY, MARCH 17th, 1883.

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THE INSUFFICIENCY OF SCIENCE,

DURING the) last few years Science has fallen
upon exceptionally pleasant times. An ele-
mentary notion of the vast forces of the ins Averse
and how they can be made subject to man has
been generally diffused, and in some pepart-
I menta of life that which was deemed impossible
has been accomplished. This success has been
most marked in the regions of electrical science
and engineering skill. Telephonic communi-
cation end the electric light have been adapta-
tions of scientific discovery to daily needs which
have been no less wonderful than popular. But
, the engineers now seem to be in the ascendant,
both in the magnitude of the works which have
; been performed and which are projected. After
the Suez Canal had passed through the usual
stages of incredu:ity, active opposition, tardy
admission, and hearty acceptance, engineers and
speculators appear to have become possessed by
a mania for altering the natural configuration of
the earth as much as possible. The majestic
solitnte of the Alps has been made to echo back
the uhistle of the locomotive. The poet's re-
gret that mountains interposed made enemies of
men, has no longer a foundation in fact. The
engineer sees only in a- mountain a capital op-
portunity for constructing a tunnel, an isthmus
is but a temporary barrier between oceans which
it is his pleasure to unite. ln his lexicon there
is no such a word as impossible. There is a
romantic grandeur in the magnitude of the
schemes which are now projected or in process
of realization. To make Manchester a seaport,
to join the Atlantic and Pacific, to unite England
and France, and to transform Afric's burning
sands to an inland ocean, whence the argosies
of all nations may bear the rear products of the
inaccessible continent—those are schemes which
are fascinating by their immensity. By the aids
of these flights, and possible facts of engineer-
ing fancy, the great work of tunnelling under the
Severn, which is far advanced towards accomp-
lishment, anti the proposal to join the Severn to
the English Channel, making Devon and Corn-
wall an island, and enab.ing vessels to avoid the
dangerous coast at the aostern extremity of the
kingdom, seem commonplace and insignificant,
though, in point a utility, they may be of equal
importance. But whilst the possibiiity of affect-
ing thse objects dernonstrAtes the mastership
of man over Nature, such pride too frequently
receives a fall. We may be able to hear the
voices of friends in distant lands or to leave our
inland home without taking ship, but a snow-
storm will render it impossible to communicate
with the next village or to get from one extremity
of a city to the other. The paralysis which
overcome a great community when nature occa-
sionally asserts her power is lamentable. The
recent unseasonable snowstorm has been an
illustration in a mild form of the insufficiency
of civilization or ill-adaptation of science to the
needs of daily life, of which the great storm of
two sears ago was a demonstration. It may
be that the men of science, in looking over
mountains and across seas, lose sight of the
objects which are lying at their feet. But this
is undoubted, that the ordinary citizen would
much prefer that science would prevent the
freezing of his water-tap, would continue the
usual means of locomotion by which he reaches
his business or takes his pleasure, and would
ensure the puEctual delivery of his telegrams
and letters than that he should be brought
within measurable distance of the uttermost
parts of the earth. After all, it is not the great
ills but The little worries of life which affect the
men most acutely ; they may be able to with-
stand the rushing stream but they are overcome
by the constant dropping day by day. Science,
like charity, t-hould begin at home. If the Men of
great thoughts and actions could but lay the
lesson to heart, that that is best wbich lieth near
them, and that from it they sliou'd shape their
work of art, life might lose some inconveniences,
even if science did n:t achieve such wondretei
and historic triumphs. The P.:yr:lands have
been the marvel of all ages, hut the common
place roads which the old Romans constructed
have been greater helps to civilization and
comfort.

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