“When I say ‘we’ my dear,” returned her father, “I mean mankind in general; the human race, considered as a body, and not as individuals. There is nothing personal in morality, my love. Even such a thing as this,” said Mr. Pecksniff, laying the forefinger of his left hand upon the brown-paper patch on the top of his head, “slight casual baldness though it be, reminds us that we are but” – he was going to say “worms”, but recollecting that worms were not remarkable for heads of hair, he substituted “flesh and blood”.

To me, science, in its most general and comprehensive acceptance, means the knowledge of what I know, the consciousness of human knowledge. … The man of science values an object because of the place he knows the object holds in the general universe by the relations it bears to other parts of knowledge. To arrange and classify that universe of knowledge becomes therefore the first, and perhaps the most important object and duty of science.