By the early nineteenth century, philosophers like physician Erasmus Darwin and chemist Humphry Davy, both well known to Mary Shelley, pointed the way to mastery of the physical universe. Discoveries about the human body and the natural world promised the dawn of a new age of medical power, when such things as reanimation of dead tissue and the end of death and disease seemed within reach. Passage: The modern masters promise very little. . . . but these philosophers. . . have indeed performed miracles. . . . They have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they cancommand the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows. –Professor Waldman to his class at the University of Ingolstadt, Germany 15. Based on the events in the story, what can you infer about Shelly’s attitude regarding scientific technology? What warning, if any, is she giving us?

Whose ideas were based on scientifically gathered evidence?A.John Dalton and Marie CurieB.Aristotle and alchemistsC.Marie Curie and alchemistsD.Aristotle and John DaltonSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

People in ancient India, already had the knowledge ofmany scientific phenomenon much before the advent ofmodern science. They applied that knowledge in variouswalks of life

How did the science of medicinechange?

Question 4 of 10Which excerpt from Frankenstein best reflects the 19th-century concern about scientific discoveries pursued solely for personal fame?A."My ardor was indeed the astonishment of the students; and my proficiency that of the masters" (30).B."I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness. These motives urged me to comply with his demand" (119-120).C."Learn from me . . . how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow" (34-35).D."I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body" (43).SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898How does H. G. Wells create suspense in the opening paragraph of The War of the Worlds?A.By explaining how ruthless the Martians are and telling the reader exactly what they will doB.By allowing the reader to believe that all of the characters in the story will die at the endC.By informing the reader that the narrator will survive the terrifying events of the storyD.By having the narrator recall the story's past events and giving hints about what happenedSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS