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The Mighty Atom
The Mighty Atom
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From: "Review of Reviews," Volume 13:
"The opening of the 'The Mighty Atom' is hardly in character with either the 'Sorrows of Satan' or the 'Vendetta.' The youngster of eleven who quotes Marcus Aurelius in confirmation of his opinion that it is cowardly to be sorry for himself seems to bear more resemblance to the Boston infant, as made known to us through the funny columns of the newspapers, than to the hero of a tale by Marie Corelli. However, the story is an exemplification of the fact that genius will out, in whatever direction it be applied, for the metaphysical speculations of " Browning Beans, Jr."—as the aforesaid youthful denizen of the Hub is generally termed —are infantile prattle compared with Lionel Villscount's delvings after the Atom and the First Cause. His father, a "Materialist Positivist" of the deepest dye, first drives his wife to an elopement culminating in her suicide, and then by a continued course of harshness so crushes the child's hope and spirit that he follows his mother's example and hangs himself from his bedroom window—both tragedies leaving the Positivist as "sot in his ways" as ever."
"The opening of the 'The Mighty Atom' is hardly in character with either the 'Sorrows of Satan' or the 'Vendetta.' The youngster of eleven who quotes Marcus Aurelius in confirmation of his opinion that it is cowardly to be sorry for himself seems to bear more resemblance to the Boston infant, as made known to us through the funny columns of the newspapers, than to the hero of a tale by Marie Corelli. However, the story is an exemplification of the fact that genius will out, in whatever direction it be applied, for the metaphysical speculations of " Browning Beans, Jr."—as the aforesaid youthful denizen of the Hub is generally termed —are infantile prattle compared with Lionel Villscount's delvings after the Atom and the First Cause. His father, a "Materialist Positivist" of the deepest dye, first drives his wife to an elopement culminating in her suicide, and then by a continued course of harshness so crushes the child's hope and spirit that he follows his mother's example and hangs himself from his bedroom window—both tragedies leaving the Positivist as "sot in his ways" as ever."
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