Nature Is In Austere Mood,

Nature Is In Austere Mood, Even Terrifying, Withal Majestically Beautiful.

For A Modern Ruler The Laws Of Conservation And Transformation Of Energy, When The Vivifing Stream Takes Its Source, The Ways It Wends Its Course In Nature, And How, Under Wisdom And Knowledge, It May Be Intertwined With Human Destiny, Instead Of Careering Headlong To The Ocean, Are A Study At Least As Pregnant With Consequences To Life As Any Lesson Taught By The Long Unscientific History Of Man.

There Is Something Sublime About Its Aloofness From And Its Indifference To Its External Environment.

With All Our Mastery Over The Powers Of Nature We Have Adhered To The View That The Struggle For Existence Is A Permanent And Necessary Condition Of Life.

It Is Probable That All Heavy Matter Possesses - Latent And Bound Up With The Structure Of The Atom - A Similar Quantity Of Energy To That Possessed By Radium. If It Could Be Tapped And Controlled What An Agent It Would Be In Changing The World's Destiny! The Man Who Put His Hand On The Lever By Which A Parsimonious Nature Regulates So Jealously The Output Of This Store Of Energy Would Possess A Weapon By Which He Could Destroy The Earth If He Chose.