The dead govern the living.
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.