Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent..

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles f….

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down dur….