Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.