We wish to raise our feeble voice against innovations, that can have no other effect than to check the progress of science, and renew all those wild phantoms of the imagination which Bacon and Newton put to flight from her temple. Opening Paragraph of a Revieiv of Dr, Toungs Bakerian Lecture, Edinburgh Revieio January 1803, p. 450. Young swork was laid before the Royal Society, and was made the 1801 Bakerian Lecture. But he was before his time. The second number of theE dinburgh Re vieiv contained an article levelled against him by Henry (afterwards Lord) Brougham, and this was so severe an attack that Young sideas were absolutely quenched for fifteen years. Brougham was then only twentyfour years of age. Young stheory was reproduced in France by Fresnel. In our days it is the accepted theory, and is found to explain all the phenomena of light. Times Report of a Lecture by Professor Tyndal on Light, A pril 27, 1880.
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