The creative faculty of modern man seems by an irresistible law at work on the virgin soil of science, daily increasing by its inventions our command over nature, and multiplying the material happiness of man.
In his biography of Lord George Bentinck, he observes the direction of modern human creativity towards scientific advancement.
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