The Summit of Discovery

The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens, than that which I now affirm is

true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were

distinct and probable. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering

the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing

animation upon lifeless matter. The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this

discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture. After so much time spent in painful

labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires, was the most gratifying

consummation of my toils. But this discovery was so great and overwhelming,