But his own business was with great principles and new truths; these were what had the real attraction for him; it was the magnificent thoughts and boundless hopes of the approaching "kingdom of man" which kindled his imagination and fired his ambition.

"He writes philosophy," said Harvey, who had come to his own great discovery through patient and obscure experiments on frogs and monkeys--"he writes philosophy like a Lord Chancellor." And for this part of the work, the stateliness and dignity of the Latin corresponded to the proud claims which he made for his conception of the knowledge which was to be.
English seemed to him too homely to express the hopes of the world, too unstable to be trusted with them.

Latin was the language of command and law.

His Latin, without enslaving itself to Ciceronian types, and with a free infusion of barbarous but most convenient words from the vast and ingenious terminology of the schoolmen, is singularly forcible and expressive.

It is almost always easy and clear; it can be vague and general, and it can be very precise where precision is wanted.