THE 
AMERICAN, 
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- JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 
Art. I.—A letter to Prof. Faraday,on certain Theoretical Opin- 
ions ; by R. Hare, M D., Professor of ‘Chemistry 3 in 4 
versity of Pennsylvania.* _ ~ Sie 
oer: é Arent, have been indebted to your kindness for several 
in electricity, which I 2d 
prac with the ereatest degree of interest. 
You must be too well aware of the height at which you 
stand, in the estimation of men of science, to doubt that I enter- 
tain with diffidence, any opinion in opposition to yours. Imay 
say of you as in a former instance of Berzelius, that you oceupy 
an elevation inaccessible to unjustifiable criticism. Under these 
circumstances, I hope that I may, from you, experience the can- 
dor and kindness which were displayed by the great Swedish 
chemist in his reply to my strictures on his nomenclature. 
. Iam unable to reconcile the language which you hold in para- 
graph 1615, with the fundamental position taken in 1155. Agree- 
ably to the latter, you believe ordinary induction to be the action 
of contiguous particles, consisting of a species of beneed instead 
* To the Editors of he American Journal of Science and Arts,—GeNnTLEMEN: I 
avail myself of the medium of your Journal to address to the celebrated Faraday, 
a letter on the subject of certain hypothetical inferences which he 
from his late ingenious experimental researches. 
Vol. xxxvimt, No. 1.—Oct.—Jan. 1 
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