"Physical certainty is not to be attained when we have to traverse the vast distances of celestial space, and human infirmity must be content to recognise the boundary beyond which it may not pass, the limit imposed on finite minds by the Infinite."
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Francis Richard Wegg-Prosser
Francis Richard Wegg-Prosser (19 June 1824 – 16 August 1911) was an English politician.
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