Experimental Science Hardly Ever Affords Us More

Experimental Science Hardly Ever Affords Us More Than Approximations To The Truth; And Whenever Many Agents Are Concerned We Are In Great Danger Of Being Mistaken.

The Well-mannered Man Never Puts Out His Hand In Greeting Until A Lady Extends Hers. This Is A Test Of Good Breeding That Is Constantly Applied. ... The First Move In The Direction Of Cordiality Must Come From The Lady, The Whole Code Of Behaviour Being Based On The Assumption That She Is The Social Superior.

We Can Trace Back Our Existence Almost To A Point. Former Time Presents Us With Trains Of Thoughts Gradually Diminishing To Nothing. But Our Ideas Of Futurity Are Perpetually Expanding. Our Desires And Our Hopes, Even When Modified By Our Fears, Seem To Grasp At Immensity. This Alone Would Be Sufficient To Prove The Progressiveness Of Our Nature, And That This Little Earth Is But A Point From Which We Start Toward A Perfection Of Being.

It Must Always Be Borne In Mind That The Assumption Of Woman's Social Superiority Lies At The Root Of These Rules Of Conduct.

Nothing Tends So Much To The Advancement Of Knowledge As The Application Of A New Instrument. The Native Intellectual Powers Of Men In Different Times Are Not So Much The Causes Of The Different Success Of Their Labours, As The Peculiar Nature Of The Means And Artificial Resources In Their Possession.