Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.
But these figures are trifling compared with those at the end of the middle ages.
Although iron, copper, coal and lignite are worked, the mineral wealth is trifling.
Under his hand the most trifling subjects gained a new importance; yet he treated the gravest with a touch so light that he seemed to have invented the sciences rather than learnt them, for he was always a creator, always original, and himself was imitable of none."
Moissan, contains only a trifling amount of morphia, and the effect produced by it is apparently due, not to that alkaloid, but to such decomposition products as pyrrol, acetone and pyridine and hydropyridine bases.
