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Gay-lussac Was Quick, Lively, Ingenious And Profound, With Great Activity Of Mind And Great Facility Of Manipulation. I Should Place Him At The Head Of All The Living Chemists In France.

By Science Calmed, Over The Peaceful Soul, Bright With Eternal Wisdom's Lucid Ray, Peace, Meek Of Eye, Extends Her Soft Control, And Drives The Puny Passions Far Away.

Cavendish Was A Great Man With Extraordinary Singularities-his Voice Was Squeaking His Manner Nervous He Was Afraid Of Strangers & Seemed When Embarrassed To Articulate With Difficulty-he Wore The Costume Of Our Grandfathers. Was Enormously Rich But Made No Use Of His Wealth... He Cavendish Lived Latterly The Life Of A Solitary, Came To The Club Dinner & To The Royal Society: But Received Nobody At His Home. He Was Acute Sagacious & Profound & I Think The Most Accomplished British Philosopher Of His Time.

The Well-mannered Man Never Puts Out His Hand In Greeting Until A Lady Extends Hers. This Is A Test Of Good Breeding That Is Constantly Applied. ... The First Move In The Direction Of Cordiality Must Come From The Lady, The Whole Code Of Behaviour Being Based On The Assumption That She Is The Social Superior.

I Suppose There Was Never Yet A Woman Who Had Not Somewhere Set Up On A Pedestal In Her Brain An Ideal Of Manhood. ... He Never Is Finished Till The Brain Of His Creator Ceases To Work, Till She Has Added Her Last Touch To Him, And Has Laid Down The Burden Of Life And Gone Elsewhere, Perhaps To Some Happy Land Where Ideals Are More Frequently Realised Than Ever Happens Here.