He transplants forests in the sea when he drives piles to carry a bridge across the estranging gulf. Nature will not step aside to give his virtues room to pass. But he circumvents her. He grapples with the forces that bar his progress. He tames the lightning and harnesses it to his triumphal car.
Science is a tremendous believer.
It lives by the faith that almost anything may yet be done. It refuses to limit the possibilities. But in the realm of the spirit, how meekly we go under the yoke of our prevailing conditions. We accept too readily the humiliating bondage of circumstances. We say this or that cannot be helped or hindered.