Punch,  32 (1857), 148.

An Atomic Theory

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Physics, Matter Theory, Government, Politics, Analogy, Microscopy


    Thinks that owing to 'the number of nobodies that are returned' to Parliament, the next session may be like a 'fortuitous concourse of atoms', while the size of the atoms will require Queen Victoria to use a microscope to open the parliamentary session.



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