MACALISTER, ALEXANDER

(1844–1919), was a professor of Anatomy at Cambridge, and an author of textbooks in physiology and zoology. He related:

I think the widespread impression of the agnosticism of scientific men is largely due to the attitude taken up by a few of the great popularizers of science, like Tyndall and Huxley.

It has been my experience that the disbelief in the revelation that God has given, in the life and work, death and resurrection of our Savior, is more prevalent among what I may call the camp followers of science than amongst those to whom scientific work is the business of their lives.2857

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (July 28, 1844–June 8, 1889), was an English poet and artist. He was professor of classics at the University College in Dublin. The death of five nuns in a shipwreck in 1875 inspired him to composed The Wreck of the Deutschland, in which he stated in No. 28:

Thou mastering me

God! giver of breath and bread;

World’s strand, sway of the sea;

Lord of the living and dead;

Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh,

And after it almost unmade, what with dread,

Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?

Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.2858

In No. 31, God’s Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote:

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.2859