3N my little book on Faraday, published in 1868, I have stated that 

 he had but to will it to raise his income in 1832, to five thousand 

 pounds a year. In 1836, the sum might have been doubled. Yet this 

 son of a blacksmith, this journeyman bookbinder, with his proud and 

 sensitive soul, rejecting the splendid opportunities open to him 

 refusing even to think them splendid in presence of his higher aims 

 cheerfully accepted from the Trinity House a pittance of two hun- 

 dred pounds a year. JOHN TYNDALL. 



