But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.
The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart....: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy (ed. 1839)