... question the value of his work in the wide field of astronomical research, and yet, like Pascal, Leibuitz, Isaac Newton, and Michael Faraday, he remained to the last a truly humble-minded believer. His desire, in his own words, was to ''follow Paul as Paul followed ...

... as this book reveals him-and it does so largely by allowing. him to reveal himself-was a man who recalls our own great Michael Faraday, not only in intellectual achievement and combined width of range and delicacy of research, but also in moral nobility ...

... There are are other ,opers in this volume, over w-hich, if space permitted, -we should gladly lingger, and notably one on Michael FarAday. one of the greatest experimental philosophers w7hich the world has ever seen, and a loan of singularly poble and blameless ...

... important post in the Royal Institution a young man whlose name and fauie have exceeded his own. This ~youug man was Michael Faraday, then twenty-two years of age. Hss parents were poor, though pious and honour- able people, and he had been, some years ...