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Lectures Which Really Teach Will Never Be Popular; Lectures Which Are Popular Will Never Really Teach.

When A Mathematician Engaged In Investigating Physical Actions And Results Has Arrived At His Own Conclusions, May They Not Be Expressed In Common Language As Fully, Clearly, And Definitely As In Mathematical Formulae? If So, Would It Not Be A Great Boon To Such As Well To Express Them So -- Translating Them Out Of Their Hieroglyphics That We Might Also Work Upon Them By Experiment?

In Place Of Practising Wholesome Self-abnegation, We Ever Make The Wish The Father To The Thought: We Receive As Friendly That Which Agrees With, We Resist With Dislike That Which Opposes Us; Whereas The Very Reverse Is Required By Every Dictate Of Common Sense.

I Have Been So Electrically Occupied Of Late That I Feel As If Hungry For A Little Chemistry: But Then The Conviction Crosses My Mind That These Things Hang Together Under One Law & That The More Haste We Make Onwards Each In His Own Path The Sooner We Shall Arrive, And Meet Each Other, At That State Of Knowledge Of Natural Causes From Which All Varieties Of Effects May Be Understood & Enjoyed.

The Condition Of Matter I Have Dignified By The Term Electronic, The Electronic State. What Do You Think Of That? Am I Not A Bold Man, Ignorant As I Am, To Coin Words?