At the time that Prince Albert’s speech was reaching the London people, Victorian England was already forming. England was becoming remodeled in numerous ways, starting with the fact that there was a new ruler on the English throne, Queen Victoria (Albert’s wife). Prince Albert addresses these changes in his speech at the Great London Exhibition of Art and Industry, focusing the most on this idea of “the realization of the unity of mankind”(Prince Albert, 1851). The realization of the unity of mankind is in essence the fact that Prince Albert felt that at this time, more than any other time in European History, the European people are joining together and both ignoring and embracing differences between them, becoming united or “as one”. He describes it in such a way here; “not a unity which …show more content…
Science during this time was quite a controversial topic and not everyone embraced it willingly. Our book mentions this briefly on page 249; “few scientists denied the action of God behind the initial creation of the earth, but since their theories contradict the precise content of the bible, they appeared to challenge its veracity”(Rapport, 2005, p. 249). Prince Albert does mention God and how man is made in his image in this line of his speech, “His reason being created after the image of God, he has to use it to discover the laws by which the almighty governs his creation, and by making these laws his standard of action, to conquer nature to his use...”(Prince Albert, 1851). Prince Albert does not discredit God or religion, he simply points out that both can exist and that science is as instrumental in discovering and improving Europe at this time. Science sheds light on what God has already