There Are Very Few Persons Who Pursue

When Two Elements Combine And Form More Than One Compound, The Masses Of One Element That React With A Fixed Mass Of The Other Are In The Ratio Of Small Whole Numbers.

And By The Influence Of Heat, Light, And Electrical Powers, There Is A Constant Series Of Changes; Matter Assumes New Forms, The Destruction Of One Order Of Beings Tends To The Conservation Of Another; Solution And Consolidation, Decay And Renovation, Are Connected; And Whilst The Parts Of The System Continue In A State Of Fluctuation And Change, The Order And Harmony Of The Whole Remain Unalterable.

Profound Minds Are The Most Likely To Think Lightly Of The Resources Of Human Reason, And It Is The Superficial Thinker Who Is Generally Strongest In Every Kind Of Unbelief.

We Must Reason In Natural Philosophy Not From What We Hope, Or Even Expect, But From What We Perceive.

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.