I Could Trust A Fact And Always

I Am Busy Just Now Again On Electro-magnetism And Think I Have Got Hold Of A Good Thing But Can't Say; It May Be A Weed Instead Of A Fish That After All My Labour I May At Last Pull Up.

What A Delight It Is To Think That You Are Quietly & Philosophically At Work In The Pursuit Of Science... Rather Than Fighting Amongst The Crowd Of Black Passions & Motives That Seem Now A Days To Urge Men Every Where Into Action. What Incredible Scenes Every Where, What Unworthy Motives Ruled For The Moment, Under High Sounding Phrases And At The Last What Disgusting Revolutions.

Now I Must Take You To A Very Interesting Part Of Our Subject-to The Relation Between The Combustion Of A Candle And That Living Kind Of Combustion Which Goes On Within Us. In Every One Of Us There Is A Living Process Of Combustion Going On Very Similar To That Of A Candle, And I Must Try To Make That Plain To You. For It Is Not Merely True In A Poetical Sense-the Relation Of The Life Of Man To A Taper; And If You Will Follow, I Think I Can Make This Clear.

Although We Know Nothing Of What An Atom Is, Yet We Cannot Resist Forming Some Idea Of A Small Particle, Which Represents It To The Mind ... There Is An Immensity Of Facts Which Justify Us In Believing That The Atoms Of Matter Are In Some Way Endowed Or Associated With Electrical Powers, To Which They Owe Their Most Striking Qualities, And Amongst Them Their Mutual Chemical Affinity.

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?