The Man of Hechingen, expert in the noble arts, versed in all literary forms, leading the age toward learning, a man perfectly and clearly erudite, imbued with exquisite, subtle, and elegant knowledge, steeped in the revolutionary science of the cosmos, bursting with knowledge of natural things, a man with the greatest piece of mind and marvelous family virtue, never shrinking from civic duties, the most powerful guide to those fabulous, receptive molecules, infallible high priest of the church of the poor in spirit.