" at nine o'clock the lecturer commenced his lecture and his experiments , and then i formed a part of his audience . it was wonderful both to hear and to see . the greater part of it was beyond my comprehension , but it led me to think that if we men can acquire so much , we must surely be intended to last longer than the little span which extends only to the time when we are hidden away under the earth . his experiments were quite miracles on a small scale , and yet the explanations flowed as naturally as water from his lips . at the time of moses and the prophets , such a man would have been placed among the sages of the land ; in the middle ages they would have burnt him at the stake .
amazed .
how did the elderly man while watching the lectures and experiments ?
how did the elderly man while watching the lectures and experiments ?