...also circumscribe it, and by-and-by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home.* No man ever felt this tyranny of symbols more deeply than Faraday, and no man was ever more assiduous...

...discourse ; we are not content with the mere facts of electricity ; we wish to look behind the facts, and prompted by certain analogies we ascribe electrical...magnetism finds it a work of extreme difficulty to look at facts in their simplicity, or to rid them of those hypothetical adornments with which common...

...also circumscribe it, and by-and-by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home.' These words are quoted because they so chime in with Faraday's views, that when he heard them he could...

...circumscribe it, and by-aiid-by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home.* "No man ever felt this tyranny of symbols more deeply than Faraday, and no man was ever more assiduous...

...also circumscribe it, and by-and-by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home." In the same vein was the remark of Michael Faraday : — "I cannot but doubt that he who as a mere...

...also circumscribe it, and by-and-by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home." In the same vein was the remark of Michael Faraday:—"I cannot but doubt that he who as a mere philosopher...

...circumscribe it, and by and by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodgement, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home." In discussing the mode of propagation of light and radiant heat he endeavored ' ' to dismiss the ether,...

...GREAT BRITAIN. June 1, 1855. — "On the Currents of the Leyden Battery." By Professor Tyndall, FRS In our conceptions and reasonings regarding the forces...with which common consent has long invested them. hypothesis of two fluids, without at all professing a belief in their existence. A Leyden jar was charged....

...also circumscribe it, and by-and-by, when the mind has grown too large for its lodging, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home." Thus a radically new technical language may be made up, precisely symbolized as first for mathematics and...

...and by,' he had written in 1855, 'when the mind has grown too large for its mansion, it often finds difficulty in breaking down the walls of what has become its prison instead of its home.'9 A troubled agnostic, he wanted something more emotive than science and more tangible than religion:...