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 into our moulds. We call you here on an excursion, on an adventure, on a voyage of discovery into space as yet uncharted.—, Introductory Address at St, George's, October 1889. Consistency in regard to opinions is the slow poison of intellectual life.—, Memoirs, 68.

Ce sont vous autres physiologistes des corps vivants, qui avez appris à nous autres physiologistes de la société (qui est aussi un corps vivant) la manière de l'observer et de tirer des conséquences de nos observations.— to, June 1, 1827.—. Mémoires, 567.

Success is certain to the pure and true: success to falsehood and corruption, tyranny and aggression, is only the prelude to a greater and an irremediable fall.—, Seventeen Lectures, 20. The Carlylean faith, that the cause we fight for, so far as it is true, is sure of victory, is the necessary basis of all effective activity for good.—, Evolution of Religion, ii. 43. It is the property of truth to be fearless, and to prove victorious over every adversary. Sound reasoning and truth, when adequately communicated, must always be victorious over error.—, Political Justiæ (Conclusion). Vice was obliged to retire and give place to virtue. This will always be the consequence when truth has fair play. Falsehood only dreads the attack, and cries out for auxiliaries. Truth never fears the encounter; she scorns the aid of the secular arm, and triumphs by her natural strength.—, Works, ii. 292. It is a condition of our race that we must ever wade through error in our advance