“Whatever else may come to pass, I do not think that on the Day of Direst Judgement any race other than the Welsh, or any other language, will give answer to the Supreme Judge of all for this small corner of the earth.”

Quoted in Le Monde (Paris, Sept. 11, 1970)
Quoted in Renee Weingarten's Writers and Revolution, ch. 15 (1974).

Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Development of negatives, p. 107

1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
Context: The theory that each race of men has some special faculty, some peculiar gift or quality of mind or heart, needed to the perfection and happiness of the whole is a broad and beneficent theory, and, besides its beneficence, has, in its support, the voice of experience. Nobody doubts this theory when applied to animals or plants, and no one can show that it is not equally true when applied to races. All great qualities are never found in any one man or in any one race. The whole of humanity, like the whole of everything else, is ever greater than a part. Men only know themselves by knowing others, and contact is essential to this knowledge. In one race we perceive the predominance of imagination; in another, like the Chinese, we remark its almost total absence. In one people we have the reasoning faculty; in another the genius for music; in another exists courage, in another great physical vigor, and so on through the whole list of human qualities. All are needed to temper, modify, round and complete the whole man and the whole nation.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 5.

Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1961)

1860s, Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio (1861), Gazette version

1778
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

As quoted by Frank Edward Manuel, The Religion of Isaac Newton (1977)