'...Certainly an Englishman it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change nor at the Bank nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court either at the Temple or Lincoln's Inn or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery or in the Exchequer or the Queen's Bench or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution the Artisan's Association or the Institution of Arts and Sciences...