FARADAY. 415 



' Go on and prosper, " from strength to strength," 

 like a victor marching with assured step to further 

 conquests; and be certain that no voice will join more 

 heartily in the peans that already begin to rise, and 

 will speedily swell into a shout of triumph, astounding 

 even to yourself, than that of J. F. W. Herschel.' 



Faraday's behaviour to Melloni in 1835 merits a 

 word of notice. The young man was a political exile 

 in Paris. He had newly fashioned and applied the 

 thermo-electric pile, and had obtained with it results 

 of the greatest importance. But they were not appre- 

 ciated. With the sickness of disappointed hope Mel- 

 loni waited for the report of the Commissioners, ap- 

 pointed by the Academy of Sciences to examine the 

 Primier. At length he published his researches in the 

 ' Annales de Chimie/ They thus fell into the hands of 

 Faraday, who, discerning at once their extraordinary 

 merit, obtained for their author the Eumford Medal of 

 the Royal Society. A sum of money always accom- 

 panies this medal; and the pecuniary help was, at this 

 time, even more essential than the mark of honour 

 to the young refugee. Melloni's gratitude was bound- 

 less: 



'Et vous, monsieur,' he writes to Faraday, 'qui 

 appartenez a une societe a laquelle je n'avais rien offert, 

 vous qui me connaissiez a peine de nomj vous n'avez 

 pas demande si j'avais des ennemis faibles ou puissants, 

 ni calcule quel en 6tait le nombre; mais vous avez 

 parle pour 1'opprime Stranger, pour celui qui n'avait 

 pas le moindre droit & tant de bienveillance, et vos 

 paroles ont 6te" accueillies favorablement par des col- 

 legues consciencieux! Je reconnais bien 1& des hommes 

 dignes de leur noble mission, les v6ritable repr6sen- 

 tants de la science d'un pays libre et g6n6reux.' 



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