It is no exaggeration to say that the telescope and the microscope have given man a new heart and soul.

_But_--" he paused, effectively,--"how many are as yet really aware of the change?
The multitude takes no account of it, no conscious account; the average man lives under the heaven of Joshua, on the earth of King Solomon.

We call our age scientific.

So it is--for a few score human beings." Reflecting for a moment, Dyce felt that it would be absurd to charge him with plagiarism, so vastly more eloquent was he than the author to whom he owed his ideas.

Conscience did not trouble him in the least.