"the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp."

"I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen, which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity o…"

"The earth does not want new continents, but new men."

"The sea is an immense reservoir of nature's forces."

"He describes his lone black character in the most appalling terms. This includes various racially charged stereotypes. ... (Grimacier, gourmand, paresseux et surtout d'une poltronnerie superbe)."