For scholars of the ancient world, access to Firstspace is almost non-existent.

He knew he was thisclose to cuffing Bobbie Faye. Thisclose to keeping her from getting killed in the inevitable cross fire he sensed was coming; he felt it all the way to the cellular level of his bones.

Gladstone's initial tone of disinterested philanthropy also characterized his first encounters with prostitutes in London once he has moved there to undertake his parliamentary duties. Accosted in a London park in 1837 by two women, Gladstone merely reported of them that both ... had taken to their miserable calling from losing their livelihood by the death of their husbands.

Chapter 3: The Dawn of McScience