A scientific autobiography belongs

A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great – and few have overcome them successfully – they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how … Read more

But the monotonous life

But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond. Elizabeth … Read more

Everlastingly chained to a

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more … Read more