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and guessing by hypotheses at her mode of 

 working, will also be most careful of his own 

 safe progress and that of others, to distinguish 

 the knowledge which consists of assumption, 

 by which I mean theory and hypothesis, from 

 that which is the knowledge of facts and 

 laws." The method of Faraday in the 

 pursuit of truth was the method of Deacon. 

 The philosopher who made "theoretic divin- 

 ation the stepping-stone to his experimental 

 results " was the father of men on whom the 

 lineaments of his intellectual life were deeply 

 impressed. 



But the influence of Faraday was not 

 simply seen in the methods of research and 

 discovery which he pursued, he was an 

 intense lover of order, " which ran like a 

 luminous beam through all the transactions of 

 his life." The most entangled and compli- 

 cated matters fell into harmony in his hands. 

 His mode of keeping accounts excited the 

 admiration of the managing board of the 

 Royal Institution. His science was similarly 

 ordered. 



In his Experimental Researches he num- 

 bered every parapraph, and welded their 

 various parts together by incessant reference. 

 His private notes of Experimental Researches, 



