Little Journeys
To the Homes of the Great
Elbert Hubbard
Memorial Edition
Printed and made into a Book by
The Roycrofters, who are in East
Aurora, Erie County, New York
Wm. H. Wise & Co.
New York
Copyright, 1916,
By The Roycrofters
Little Journeys
To the Homes
of
Great Scientists
CONTENTS
| SIR ISAAC NEWTON |
| GALILEO |
| COPERNICUS |
| HUMBOLDT |
| WILLIAM HERSCHEL |
| CHARLES DARWIN |
| HAECKEL |
| LINNÆUS |
| THOMAS H. HUXLEY |
| JOHN TYNDALL |
| ALFRED R. WALLACE |
| JOHN FISKE |
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
When you come into any fresh company, observe their humours. Suityour own carriage thereto, by which insinuation you will make theirconverse more free and open. Let your discourse be more in querysand doubtings than peremptory assertions or disputings, it beingthe designe of travelers to learne, not to teach. Besides, it willpersuade your acquaintance that you have the greater esteem ofthem, and soe make them more ready to communicate what they know toyou; whereas nothing sooner occasions disrespect and quarrels thanperemptorinesse. You will find little or no advantage in seemingwiser, or much more ignorant than your company. Seldom discommendanything though never so bad, or doe it but moderately, lest youbee unexpectedly forced to an unhansom retraction. It is safer tocommend any thing more than is due, than to discommend a thing soemuch as it deserves; for commendations meet not soe often withoppositions, or, at least, are not usually soe ill resented by menthat think otherwise, as discommendations; and you will insinuateinto men's favour by nothing sooner than seeming to approve andcommend what they like; but beware of doing it by a comparison.