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In That Memorable Year, 1822: Oersted, A Danish Physicist, Held In His Hands A Piece Of Copper Wire, Joined By Its Extremities To The Two Poles Of A Volta Pile. On His Table Was A Magnetized Needle On Its Pivot, And He Suddenly Saw (by Chance You Will Say, But Chance Only Favours The Mind Which Is Prepared) The Needle Move And Take Up A Position Quite Different From The One Assigned To It By Terrestrial Magnetism. A Wire Carrying An Electric Current Deviates A Magnetized Needle From Its Position. That, Gentlemen, Was The Birth Of The Modern Telegraph.

My Opinion - Nay More, My Conviction - Is That, In The Present State Of Science, As You Rightly Say, Spontaneous Generation Is A Chimera; And It Would Be Impossible For You To Contradict Me, For My Experiments All Stand Forth To Prove That Spontaneous Generation Is A Chimera.

Great Problems Are Now Being Handled, Keeping Every Thinking Man In Suspense; The Unity Or Multiplicity Of Human Races; The Creation Of Man 1,000 Years Or 1,000 Centuries Ago; The Fixity Of Species, Or The Slow And Progressive Transformation Of One Species Into Another; The Eternity Of Matter; The Idea Of A God Unnecessary: Such Are Some Of The Questions That Humanity Discusses Nowadays.

My Present And Most Fixed Opinion Regarding The Nature Of Alcoholic Fermentation Is This: The Chemical Act Of Fermentation Is Essentially A Phenomenon Correlative With A Vital Act, Beginning And Ending With The Latter. I Believe That There Is Never Any Alcoholic Fermentation Without Their Being Simultaneously The Organization, Development, Multiplication Of The Globules, Or The Pursued, Continued Life Of Globules Which Are Already Formed.

One Does Not Ask Of One Who Suffers: What Is Your Country And What Is Your Religion? One Merely Says: You Suffer, That Is Enough For Me.