I Cannot Conceive Curved Lines Of Force

Magnetic Lines Of Force Convey A Far Better And Purer Idea Than The Phrase Magnetic Current Or Magnetic Flood: It Avoids The Assumption Of A Current Or Of Two Currents And Also Of Fluids Or A Fluid, Yet Conveys A Full And Useful Pictorial Idea To The Mind.

But I Must Confess I Am Jealous Of The Term Atom; For Though It Is Very Easy To Talk Of Atoms, It Is Very Difficult To Form A Clear Idea Of Their Nature, Especially When Compounded Bodies Are Under Consideration.

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.

The Lecturer Should Give The Audience Full Reason To Believe That All His Powers Have Been Exerted For Their Pleasure And Instruction.

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.