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In all these investigations, in all these experiments, which are so very, very interesting, for many years past ever since the greatest experimenter who lectured in this hall discovered its principle we have had a steady companion, an appliance familiar to every one, a plaything once, a thing of momentous importance now the induction coil. There is no dearer appliance to the electrician.
There he was not wrong; his judgement, that dealt him, in his own cause, the first, the fatal, the final injury the initial subtle blow that sent him on his career so wronged, so cleft through and through, that the mere course and action of life must ruin him this judgement, in art, directed him in the decision of the most momentous of all public questions.
"Very well, then, Admiral, and gentlemen, since you do me the honour to insist, I will," said I. "But you must permit me to begin by reminding you that I am only a boy, and that this is my first experience of actual warfare; therefore if I venture to express an opinion on what has been justly described as a most momentous question, I do so with the utmost diffidence.
After a long stretch of threatened hostilities, the pinch came at last in 1753, when the two nations met on the banks of the Ohio. The meeting meant one of the greatest and most momentous series of wars in the century. French soldiers invaded all the settlements of the Ohio company and drove the settlers out.
The colour ebbed from the cheeks of more than one; the men fidgeted on their feet. Count Hannibal looked round, his head high. "There is no call for tears," he said; and whether he spoke in irony or in a strange obtuseness was known only to himself. "Mademoiselle is in no hurry and rightly to answer a question so momentous.
Early in February of that momentous year, Jefferson Davis, on behalf of the South, had introduced his famous resolutions in the Senate of the United States. This document was the ultimatum of the dissatisfied slave-holding commonwealths. It demanded that Congress should protect slavery throughout the domain of the United States.
But about the same time a scene was being enacted in another part of the Greek world, which led to most momentous consequences. Early in the winter the Syracusan envoys arrived at Corinth, and made an earnest appeal for help.
What conflict grander and more sublime than this, in the whole history of society? What conflict proved more momentous in its results? I need not trace all the steps of that memorable contest, or describe the details, from the time when the Pope sent out his edicts and excommunicated all who dared to disobey him, including some of the most eminent German prelates and German princes.
We have now a third picture to draw, and a great one, that of the mighty and momentous conflict which ended in the death of the last of the Saxon kings, and the Norman conquest of England. The force of William greatly outnumbered that of Harold. It comprised about sixty thousand men, while Harold had but twenty or thirty thousand.
It was the first occasion on which the cup of ambition had been held before him, and to him it was momentous. He said little, but did not try and dissuade the Parson when he declared he would take the matter to the authorities, and he listened to Flynn for the rest of that evening with less the sensation of the outsider, the mere onlooker, than ever before.
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