Mr. Herschel... Brought With Him The Calculations

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.

Those From Whose Pocket The Salary Is Drawn, And By Whose Appointment The Officer Was Made, Have Always A Right To Discuss The Merits Of Their Officers, And Their Modes Of Exercising The Duties They Are Paid To Perform.

The First Steps In The Path Of Discovery, And The First Approximate Measures, Are Those Which Add Most To The Existing Knowledge Of Mankind.

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.

The True Value Of The Christian Religion Rests, Not Upon Speculative Views Of The Creator, Which Must Necessarily Be Different In Each Individual, According To The Extent Of The Knowledge Of The Finite Being, Who Employs His Own Feeble Powers In Contemplating The Infinite: But It Rests Upon Those Doctrines Of Kindness And Benevolence Which That Religion Claims And Enforces, Not Merely In Favour Of Man Himself But Of Every Creature Susceptible Of Pain Or Of Happiness.