Date: April, 1871

"His belief in Mahomet, in the Koran, and in the sufficiency of the Koran, came to him probably in spontaneous rushes of emotion; there may have been little vestiges of argument floating here and there, but they did not justify the strength of the emotion, still less did they create it, and they ...

— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)

Date: 1872

"No! the celestial Author and Creator / In those two volumes of the Book of Nature / Ordained for our instruction, represents, / By multiform but single elements, / One universe of sense, all that we know, / The visible world of instantaneous show / And tangible creation, hard and slow,The last r...

— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)

Date: 1872

"At Shakespear's happy birth / With fire ethereal Jove his soul endow'd, / Then bade him spurn the narrow bounds of earth, / And sordid wishes of the grov'ling crowd, / That chain the free-born mind."

— Laurence, French (1757-1809)

Date: 1872

"He who gives way to violent gestures will increase his rage: he who does not control the signs of fear will experience fear in a greater degree; and he who remains passive when overwhelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering elasticity of mind."

— Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

Date: 1873

"There thou sittest in thy wonted corner / Lone and awful in thy darkened mind."

— Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)

Date: 1874

"The soul stands related to the body as the bell of a clock to the works"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

Date: 1874

Consciousness "answers to the sound which the bell gives out when struck"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

Date: 1874

The brain evolves sensation as "an iron rod, when hammered, evolves heat"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

Date: 1874

Phenomena of the senses are as unlike the causes which set the mechanism of the body in motion, "as the sound of a repeater is unlike the pushing of the spring which gives rise to it"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)

Date: 1874

The nervous system stands between consciousness and the external world, "as an interpreter who can talk with his fingers stands between a hidden speaker and a man who is stone deaf"

— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)