16 PROFESSOR HENRY AND THE 



vants of this philosophy, must be provided with 

 materials with which to reproduce, in miniature, 

 the conditions that exist in nature in grander pro- 

 portions, or they cannot ask the questions whose 

 answers they are seeking; and, other things being 

 equal, he who is well provided with all these need- 

 ful things, has an immense advantage over another 

 who lacks them. 



For thirteen years Faraday had been pursuing his 

 investigations amply supplied, and was in the full 

 career of successful experiment when, in 1826, his 

 great rival first looked upon the course over which 

 he was to run ; and even then Henry had to depend 

 upon the meagre facilities of the Albany Academy, 

 and the voluntary assistance of an appreciative 

 physician, Dr. Philip Ten Eyck, of Albany a 

 name to be held in grateful remembrance by all 

 who feel a pride in the achievements of the great 

 scientist, whose early efforts were assisted, and 

 whose hopes encouraged, by this enlightened 

 friend. 



With such a beginning as this, who could expect 

 that the young aspirant for fame should ever 

 overtake his great leader in the friendly contest ? 

 And when he did overtake him, and in some im- 

 portant investigations surpass him, who shah 1 deny 

 that Henry, as a physical investigator, was the 

 equal of him above whom it is conceded no other 

 man has risen in this century ! 



