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The Progression Of Physical Science Is Much More Connected With Your Prosperity Than Is Usually Imagined. You Owe To Experimental Philosophy Some Of The Most Important And Peculiar Of Your Advantages. It Is Not By Foreign Conquests Chiefly That You Are Become Great, But By A Conquest Of Nature In Your Own Country.

Every Discovery Opens A New Field For Investigation Of Facts, Shows Us The Imperfection Of Our Theories. It Has Justly Been Said, That The Greater The Circle Of Light, The Greater The Boundary Of Darkness By Which It Is Surrounded.

In The Present State Of Our Knowledge, It Would Be Useless To Attempt To Speculate On The Remote Cause Of The Electrical Energy... Its Relation To Chemical Affinity Is, However, Sufficiently Evident. May It Not Be Identical With It, And An Essential Property Of Matter?

Natural Science Is Founded On Minute Critical Views Of The General Order Of Events Taking Place Upon Our Globe, Corrected, Enlarged, Or Exalted By Experiments, In Which The Agents Concerned Are Placed Under New Circumstances, And Their Diversified Properties Separately Examined. The Body Of Natural Science, Then, Consists Of Facts; Is Analogy,-the Relation Of Resemblance Of Facts By Which Its Different Parts Are Connected, Arranged, And Employed, Either For Popular Use, Or For New Speculative Improvements.

Cavendish Was A Great Man With Extraordinary Singularities-his Voice Was Squeaking His Manner Nervous He Was Afraid Of Strangers & Seemed When Embarrassed To Articulate With Difficulty-he Wore The Costume Of Our Grandfathers. Was Enormously Rich But Made No Use Of His Wealth... He Cavendish Lived Latterly The Life Of A Solitary, Came To The Club Dinner & To The Royal Society: But Received Nobody At His Home. He Was Acute Sagacious & Profound & I Think The Most Accomplished British Philosopher Of His Time.