Or is it that the explosion would derange her costume?
I say, averages of masses we have, but our tables of maxima we owe to the sporting men more than to the philosophers.

The lesson their experience teaches is, that Nature makes no leaps,--does nothing per saltum.

The greatest brain that ever lived, no doubt, was only a small fraction of an idea ahead of the second best.

Just look at the chess-players.

Leaving out the phenomenal exceptions, the nice shades that separate the skilful ones show how closely their brains approximate,--almost as closely as chronometers.