...higher than in any of Faraday's previous works. Amid much that is entangled and dark we have Hashes of wondrous insight and utterances which seem less...most ingenious device of a rapidly rotating mirror, Wlieatstoue had proved that electricity required time to pass through a wire, the current reaching...

...satisfactory to a mind versed in mechanics. And then again occur, I confess, dark sayings, ,1 i Him 1 1. to be understood, which disturb my confidence in this...than of revelation. I will confine myself here to ono example of this divining power : — By his most ingenious device of a rapidly rotating mirror,...

...is far higher than in any of Faraday's previous works. Amid mucli that is entangled and dark we havo flashes of wondrous insight and utterances which seem...most ingenious device of a rapidly rotating mirror, Wheatstono had proved that electricity required time to pass through a wire, the current reaching the...

...boundless contiguity of shade," by which that knowledge is surrounded. But amidst so much which is dark, we have flashes of wondrous insight, and utterances...less the product of reasoning than of revelation. Such is the estimate a competent mind forms of this great intelligence, so that, in fact, ordinary...

...under review the ratio of speculation and reasoning to experiment is far higher than in any of Faradajs previous works. Amid much that is entangled and dark...Faraday, “the two ends of the wire in Professor Wheatatone's experiments were immadiatoly connected with two large insulated metallic surfaces exposed...

...'matter cannot act where it is not,' " and these were the dark views to which Tyndall alluded, these the "flashes of wondrous insight and utterances which...less the product of reasoning than of revelation." These, too, were the "theoretic views" of which Faraday persuaded very few. Nor was Tyndall, for all...