Edward Everett Quote

Unspeakable are the attractions of patient enthusiastic science, now following the traces of creative wisdom, along the minutest fibres of microscopic life, and now clinging to the folds of the streaming robe of Omnipotence, as it floats over the transcendent galaxies of the highest heavens.

Inauguration of Washington University at Saint Louis, Missouri. April, 23, 1857, An Address (p. 76)