Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
“Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.”
“Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.”