The Point Is To Be Good-to Be

Any Fool Can Be Fussy And Rid Himself Of Energy All Over The Place, But A Man Has To Have Something In Him Before He Can Settle Down To Do Nothing.

What A Grand, Higgledy-piggledy, Sensible Old Place Norwich Is!

On The 1st Of August, 1774, I Endeavoured To Extract Air From Mercurius Calcinates Per Se [mercury Oxide]; And I Presently Found That, By Means Of This Lens, Air Was Expelled From It Very Readily. … I Admitted Water To It [the Extracted Air], And Found That It Was Not Imbibed By It. But What Surprized Me More Than I Can Well Express, Was, That A Candle Burned In This Air With A Remarkably Vigorous Flame… I Was Utterly At A Loss How To Account For It.

The World We Know At Present Is In No Fit State To Take Over The Dreariest Little Meteor ... If We Have The Courage And Patience, The Energy And Skill, To Take Us Voyaging To Other Planets, Then Let Us Use Some Of These To Tidy Up And Civilize This Earth. One World At A Time, Please.

Britain, Which In The Years Immediately Before This War Was Rapidly Losing Such Democratic Virtues As It Possessed, Is Now Being Bombed And Burned Into Democracy.