"The chief use of any widening out of knowledge and sympathy must be to prepare man more fully for the supreme moment of concentration and selection, the moment when he exercises his own special faculties."
"The unity of Plato is associated with a concentration of the will, that of Rousseau with an expansion of the feelings."
"Milton speaks of the comet that from 'his horrid hair shakes pestilence and war.' But the comet is now related to laws that are independent of human hopes and fears."