text:  Next in order came science and arts; and it was easier to make him feel the merits of these than of the exploits of men especially when they consisted of valour and of the deeds of conquerors; for the heroic virtues seemed to take a new character in the present circumstances of the world; and whereas they used to kindle and blaze in personal danger and at the sound of the applause of men they now burned brightly in the endurance of a world's dissolution which with all its terrors and prolonged impressions must be met by the calm self-sustaining spirit rising superior to the greatest excess of physical injury