A review by rclyburn
The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker

I really liked this quote on the development of scientfic inquiry:

Year by year, day by day, hour by hour, we are learning; but the end is far, far off. It seems to me that we are now at that stage of intellectual progress in which the rough machinery for making discovery is being invented. Later on, we shall have enough of the first principles to help us in the development of equipment for the true study of the inwardness of things.


And of course the final line:
SpoilerIt was merciful that I was spared the pain of hoping.