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"They must be supplied with intelligent and trained assistants to aid in 

 the conduct of their researches, and whatever buildings, apparatus, and materials 

 may be required for conducting those researches effectively. 



" The desired system must therefore provide arrangements favourable to the 

 maintenance and development of the true student-spirit in investigators, while 

 providing them with permanent means of subsistence, sufficient to enable them 

 to feel secure and tranquil in working at science alone, yet not sufficient to 

 neutralise their motives for exertion ; and at the same time it must give them 

 all external aids, in proportion to their wants and powers of making good use 

 of them." 



Whether the scheme proposed by Dr Williamson to bring such a state of 

 things about will have the full success he anticipates is a matter of second- 

 rate importance ; what is of importance is, that the need of some scheme is 

 now fully recognised. 



So far the remarks we have made have been suggested by Faraday's 

 usefulness. It is to be hoped that the nobleness of his simple, undramatic life, 

 will live as long in men's memories as the discoveries which have immortalised 

 his name. Here was no hunger after popular applause, no jealousy of other 

 men's work, no swerving from the well-loved, self-imposed task of "working, 

 finishing, publishing." 



" The simplicity of his heart, his candour, his ardent love of the truth, his 

 fellow-interest in all the successes, and ingenuous admiration of all the discoveries 

 of others, his natural modesty in regard to what he himself discovered, his 

 noble soul independent and bold all these combined, gave an incomparable 

 charm to the features of the illustrious physicist." 



Such was his portrait as sketched by Dumas, a man cast in the same 

 mould. All will recognise its truth. Can men of science find a nobler exemplar 

 on which to fashion their own life ? Nay, if it were more widely followed than 

 it is, should we not hear less of men falling away from the " brilliant promise " 

 of their youth, tempted by " fees," or the " applications of Science," or the 

 advantages attendant upon a popular exposition of other men's work ? Should 

 we not hear a little less- frequently than we do that research is a sham, and 

 that all attempts to aid it savour of jobbery ? 



Lastly we may consider Faraday's place in the general history of Science ; 

 this is far from easy. Our minds are still too much occupied with the memory 

 of the outward form and expression of his scientific work to be able to compare 



