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Cavendish Was A Great Man With Extraordinary Singularities-his Voice Was Squeaking His Manner Nervous He Was Afraid Of Strangers & Seemed When Embarrassed To Articulate With Difficulty-he Wore The Costume Of Our Grandfathers. Was Enormously Rich But Made No Use Of His Wealth... He Cavendish Lived Latterly The Life Of A Solitary, Came To The Club Dinner & To The Royal Society: But Received Nobody At His Home. He Was Acute Sagacious & Profound & I Think The Most Accomplished British Philosopher Of His Time.

Cuvier Had Even In His Address & Manner The Character Of A Superior Man, Much General Power & Eloquence In Conversation & Great Variety Of Information On Scientific As Well As Popular Subjects. I Should Say Of Him That He Is The Most Distinguished Man Of Talents I Have Ever Known On The Continent: But I Doubt If He Be Entitled To The Appellation Of A Man Of Genius.

Oh, Most Magnificent And Noble Nature! Have I Not Worshipped Thee With Such A Love As Never Mortal Man Before Displayed? Adored Thee In Thy Majesty Of Visible Creation, And Searched Into Thy Hidden And Mysterious Ways As Poet, As Philosopher, As Sage?

In The Present State Of Our Knowledge, It Would Be Useless To Attempt To Speculate On The Remote Cause Of The Electrical Energy... Its Relation To Chemical Affinity Is, However, Sufficiently Evident. May It Not Be Identical With It, And An Essential Property Of Matter?

Gay-lussac Was Quick, Lively, Ingenious And Profound, With Great Activity Of Mind And Great Facility Of Manipulation. I Should Place Him At The Head Of All The Living Chemists In France.