Critical Notice: Deadly Tenacity and Almost Diabolical Cunning

This method taxes patience to the utmost, and could hardly have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored…. There is little of the grand style about these new prism, pendulum and chronograph-philosophers. They mean business, not chivalry. What generous divination, and that superiority in virtue which was thought by Cicero to give a man the best insight into nature, have failed to do, their spying and scraping, their deadly tenacity and almost diabolical cunning, will doubtless some day bring about. [James, 1890/1950, pp. 192–193]