William Boulting

THREE centuries and more have rolled away since Giordano Bruno, the Nolan, spoke in the Sorbonne of Paris; not here he spoke, in this magnificent Hall in which we are gathered to-night; but nevertheless it was in this same famous Sorbonne that he set forth his theories on the Infinite Universe, on the Universal Life, on the Immortality-or rather, the Eternity-of the human Spirit, and on the Life Heroic that leads to Human Perfection.

— from Giordano Bruno, 1950