From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life… — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
