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There Are Very Few Persons Who Pursue Science With True Dignity.

I Suppose There Was Never Yet A Woman Who Had Not Somewhere Set Up On A Pedestal In Her Brain An Ideal Of Manhood. ... He Never Is Finished Till The Brain Of His Creator Ceases To Work, Till She Has Added Her Last Touch To Him, And Has Laid Down The Burden Of Life And Gone Elsewhere, Perhaps To Some Happy Land Where Ideals Are More Frequently Realised Than Ever Happens Here.

The Progression Of Physical Science Is Much More Connected With Your Prosperity Than Is Usually Imagined. You Owe To Experimental Philosophy Some Of The Most Important And Peculiar Of Your Advantages. It Is Not By Foreign Conquests Chiefly That You Are Become Great, But By A Conquest Of Nature In Your Own Country.

Nature Is Beautiful, And You Are In Her Bosom. That Voice Of Comfort Which Speaks In The Breezes Of Morning, May Visit Your Mind, That The Delightful Influences Which The Green Leaves, The Blue Sky, The Moonbeams And Clouds Of The Evening Diffuse Over The Universe, May In Their Powers Of Soul-healing, Visit Your Day Visions, Is My Desire And Hope.

Consistency In Opinion Is The Slow Poison Of Intellectual Life, The Destroyer Of Its Vividness And Energy.