Ou Can Hardly Imagine How I Am

Although We Know Nothing Of What An Atom Is, Yet We Cannot Resist Forming Some Idea Of A Small Particle, Which Represents It To The Mind ... There Is An Immensity Of Facts Which Justify Us In Believing That The Atoms Of Matter Are In Some Way Endowed Or Associated With Electrical Powers, To Which They Owe Their Most Striking Qualities, And Amongst Them Their Mutual Chemical Affinity.

When I Came To Know Mrs. Marcet Personally; How Often I Cast My Thoughts Backward, Delighting To Connect The Past And The Present; How Often, When Sending A Paper To Her As A Thank You Offering, I Thought Of My First Instructress.

As When On Some Secluded Branch In Forest Far And Wide Sits Perched An Owl, Who, Full Of Self-conceit And Self-created Wisdom, Explains, Comments, Condemns, Ordains And Order Things Not Understood, Yet Full Of Importance Still Holds Forth To Stocks And Stones Around - So Sits And Scribbles Mike.

I Am No Poet, But If You Think For Yourselves, As I Proceed, The Facts Will Form A Poem In Your Minds.

What A Delight It Is To Think That You Are Quietly & Philosophically At Work In The Pursuit Of Science... Rather Than Fighting Amongst The Crowd Of Black Passions & Motives That Seem Now A Days To Urge Men Every Where Into Action. What Incredible Scenes Every Where, What Unworthy Motives Ruled For The Moment, Under High Sounding Phrases And At The Last What Disgusting Revolutions.