He handled both at this period of life with startling audacity.
[Footnote 93: See Wood, _Ath.

Oxon._ p.

300.] [Footnote 94: _Op.

It._ vol.i.p.

179.] They had become for him the means of ventilating speculations on terrestrial movement, on the multiplicity of habitable worlds, on the principle of the universe, and on the infinite modes of psychical metamorphosis.