He retired blushfully to the pavilion, amidst applause, and Stone came out.

Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, …

[This vapour] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to Men.

The Knights who desire to take their oath have long and painful duties to fulfil, obstacles to vanquish, errors to combat, adversaries to overcome, and eternal war to sustain against ignorance and vice; they allude to the persecutions reserved for the zealoter of justice, truth, virtue and the enemies of wickedness.