The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means. Thomas Malthus
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface. Johannes Stark
Wilson says of him that he is the humble companion, not the servant, of a prince or man of rank, and it is a curious peculiarity that he is always a Brahman.
