For One Person Who Is Blessed With

For One Person Who Is Blessed With The Power Of Invention, Many Will Always Be Found Who Have The Capacity Of Applying Principles.

It Can Happen To But Few Philosophers, And But At Distant Intervals, To Snatch A Science, Like Dalton, From The Chaos Of Indefinite Combination, And Binding It In The Chains Of Number, To Exalt It To Rank Amongst The Exact. Triumphs Like These Are Necessarily 'few And Far Between.'

If We Define A Miracle As An Effect Of Which The Cause Is Unknown To Us, Then We Make Our Ignorance The Source Of Miracles! And The Universe Itself Would Be A Standing Miracle. A Miracle Might Be Perhaps Defined More Exactly As An Effect Which Is Not The Consequence Or Effect Of Any Known Laws Of Nature.

Science In England Is Not A Profession: Its Cultivators Are Scarcely Recognised Even As A Class. Our Language Itself Contains No Single Term By Which Their Occupation Can Be Expressed. We Borrow A Foreign Word [savant] From Another Country Whose High Ambition It Is To Advance Science, And Whose Deeper Policy, In Accord With More Generous Feelings, Gives To The Intellectual Labourer Reward And Honour, In Return For Services Which Crown The Nation With Imperishable Renown, And Ultimately Enrich The Human Race.

In Turning From The Smaller Instruments In Frequent Use To The Larger And More Important Machines, The Economy Arising From The Increase Of Velocity Becomes More Striking.