The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy
An honest money system is the only alternative.
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.