It goes on from point to point beautifully. You will find many
pencil marks, for I made them as I read. I let them stand, for
though many of them receive their answer as the story proceeds, yet
they show how the wording impresses a mind fresh to the subject, and
perhaps here and there you may like to alter it slightly, if you
wish the full idea, i.e., not an inaccurate one, to be suggested at
first; and yet after all I believe it is not your exposition, but
the natural jumping to a conclusion that affects or has affected my
pencil.
'We return on Friday, when I will return you the paper.
'Ever truly yours,
'M. Faraday.'
The third letter will come in its proper place towards the end.
While once conversing with Faraday on science, in its relations to
commerce and litigation, he said to me, that at a certain period of
his career, he was forced definitely to ask himself, and finally to
decide whether he should make wealth or science the pursuit of his
life. He could not serve both masters, and he was therefore
compelled to choose between them. After the discovery of
magneto-electricity his fame was so noised abroad, that the
commercial world would hardly have considered any remuneration too
high for the aid of abilities like his. Even before he became so
famous, he had done a little 'professional business.' This was the
phrase he applied to his purely commercial work. His friend,
Richard Phillips, for example, had induced him to undertake a number
of analyses, which produced, in the year 1830, an addition to his
income of more than a thousand pounds; and in 1831 a still greater
addition.
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