No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the
thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
-- Samuel Stiles, 19th Century English writer
From a long view of the history of mankind -- seen from ay, ten thousand
years from now -- there can be little doubt that the most significant event
of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of
electrodynamics....
