"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to obs..." — Simon Newcomb

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.