text:  What is amply sufficient when the work of destruction is in hand by what disastrous fatality does it become incompetent when the task is to produce and to create? Is it not true that great men have always sought and found their principal recompense in the very exercise of their high faculties? If society had wished to recompense Newton it would have been utterly powerless to do so; there was for Newton in all the world no other or sufficient recompense but the joy he must have felt when his genius discovered the laws which govern the planets