Faraday disclaimed the idea that his childhood was distinguished by any precocity.

There is a single discovery of Faraday that stands out sharply amidst all his other discoveries, great as they were, and is so important in its far-reaching results that it alone would have stamped him as a philosophical investigator of the highest merits, had he never done anything else.

We will first examine Faraday's discovery of the relations existing between light and magnetism.

In this investigation Faraday proved that light-vibrations are rotated by the action of a magnetic field.

Faraday showed that the power of rotating a beam of polarized light is also possessed by some liquids.

At first Faraday attributed the repulsion of diamagnetic substances to a polarity, separate and distinct from ordinary magnetic polarity, for which he proposed the name, diamagnetic polarity.

There were many other researches made by Faraday, such as his experiments on disruptive electric discharges, his investigations on the electric eel, his many researches on the phenomena both of frictional electricity and of the voltaic pile, his investigations on the contact and chemical theories of the voltaic pile, and those on chemical decomposition by frictional electricity; these are but some of the mere important of them.

These researches not only led to the production of dynamo-electric machines, but, in point of fact, Faraday actually produced the first dynamo.

Such an electric source was given to the world by Faraday through his invention of the dynamo-electric machine, and it was not until this machine was sufficiently developed and improved that commercial electric lighting became possible.

Faraday's high rank as an investigator in the domain of natural science was fully recognized by the learned societies of his time, by admission into their fellowships.

Life and Letters of Faraday.

May 12 Remarks on Dr Faraday's Paper on Phil.

We must do as Dr. Faraday does at the Institution when he exhibits in miniature the larger processes of Nature.

He has introduced the term Faradaic current to represent the induced current, first discovered by Professor Henry, and so much extended in application by Faraday.

By Michael Faraday.

By Michael Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S. Edited by William Crookes, F.C.S. New York.

But the gyrostatic system does, besides, what the system of naturally acting material particles cannot doit constitutes an elastic solid which can have the Faraday magneto-optic rotation of the plane of polarization of light; supposing the application of our solid to be a model of the luminiferous ether for illustrating the undulatory theory of light.

The gyrostatic model spring balance is arranged to have zero moment of momentum as a whole, and therefore to contribute nothing to the Faraday rotation; with this arrangement the model illustrates the luminiferous ether in a field unaffected by magnetic force.

We now have a model elastic solid which will have the property that the direction of vibration in waves of rectilinear vibrations propagated through it shall turn round the line of propagation of the waves, just as Faraday's observation proves to be done by the line of vibration of light in a dense medium between the poles of a powerful magnet.

With these postulates we can produce a perfect model of mutual action at a distance between solid particles, fulfilling the condition, so keenly desired by Newton and Faraday, of being explained by continuous action through an intervening medium.

Although the principle of the dynamo originated with Faraday, yet all the early machines, Pacinotti, Gramme.

And Faraday, weeping, said: "Why will people go astray when they have this blest book to guide them?" If we turn to literature we encounter many such liberal thinkers as Theodore Parker, who calmly informs us: "This collection of books has taken such a hold upon the world as has no other.

Another great and admirable master of natural knowledge, Faraday, was a Sandemanian.

And so strong, in general, is the demand of religion and poetry to have their share in a man, to associate themselves with his knowing, and to relieve and rejoice it, that probably, for one man amongst us with the disposition to do as Darwin did in this respect, there are at least fifty with the disposition to do as Faraday.

FARAD, the unit of electrical energy, so called from Faraday.