"And when I compare with these pangs of remorse the feelings which must accompany my honorable friend from this house to his home, after the vote of this night shall have accomplished the object of his humane and unceasing labours, when he shall retire into the bosom of his delighted and happy family, and when he shall lay himself down on his bed, reflecting on the innumerable voices that will be raised in every quarter of the world to bless his name, how much more enviable his lot, in the consciousness of having preserved so many millions of his fellow creatures, than that of the man with whom I have compared him, on a throne to which he has waded through slaughter and oppression!"

"1. We are the contemporaries of a third epoch of science after the Greek and Galilean. The caesura which opens this third epoch is not an invention - that of demonstrative mathematics - nor is it a br…"

"Every moment of every day and night he was able to take the measure of his failure now. Even his family's poverty which for years he had refused to admit, began to grow familiar to him, but like the m…"

"he infinite is in capacity. That, however, which is infinite in capacity is not to be assumed as that which is infinite in energy. ...t has its being in capacity, and in division and diminution. ...t …"

"But is the anatomy of man not a more painful science still?—that science which leads us to dip our hands into the blood of our fellow-beings to pry with impassible curiosity into parts and organs whic…"