That any rational and accountable being should ever have been found to oppose the
progress of truth, is truly humiliating; yet every page of history, which records the
developement of new principles, exhibits also the outbreakings of prejudice and selfishness.
The deductions of Galileo, of Newton, of Harvey, and innumerable others, have been
opposed and denounced, each in its turn; while their promoters have been vilified as
empyrics or innovators. Nor has this been done ...