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TO PROF, FARADAY. gs Ps 
_ My dear Sisco the month of July last I had she scale 
to read, in the American or of Science, your letter in reply 
to one which I had addres to you through the same channel. 
I should sooner have this letter, but that. meanwhile I 
have had to republish two of my text-books, 1, besides, could ¢ 
not command, until lately, a complete copy o —_ numbers 
of your bdienirelseas to which you have relolea - 
The tenor of the language with which. your fects dotdidion! re 
ces realizes the hope, which I cherished, that my strictures would 
call forth an amicable reply. Under these circumstances it would 
grieve me that you should mouatee amy part of my language as 
charging you with -inconsiste contradiction, as if it 
could be my object to put you i in 1 the wrong, farther than mig 
be necessary to establish my ion of the truth. Certainly * 
it has been my wish never to gc Depend gbe Sentiment; ‘ “* Amicus 
Plato, sed magis a ica Bite » Tattach high i nee to 
the facts established by your “ Researches,” which can only be 
_ appreciated sufficiently by those who have experienced the labor, 
corporeal and mental, which experimental investigations require: ~ 
» Tam moreover gratefal for the disposition to do me justice, man- 
-ifested in those researches ; yet it may not always. be possible for _ 
me to display the eer — I i ee entertain. ea all 
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