... though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts. - John Tyndall

The Christian world seethed not only with apocryphal writings, but with hostile interpretations of writings not apocryphal.

[T]he enunciation of a thought in advance of the moment provokes dissent or evokes approval, and thus promotes action. The thought may be unwise; but it is only by discussion, checked by experience, that its value can be determined.

To Principal Caird... imaging of the Unseen is of inestimable value. It furnishes an objective counterpart to religious emotion, permanent but plastic—capable of indefinite change and purification in response to the changing thoughts and aspirations of mankind.