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AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Art, XVIII.—WMichael Faraday, his Life and Works ; by 
Professor A. DE LA Rivz,* 
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through his hands that he could not resist the temptatio 
n of 
Opening and reading some of them. These readings, performed 
“Do not fancy,” he said to me in a letter} of the 2nd of Oc- 
tober, 1858, in which he gives me these details, ‘that I was a 
profound thinker or a precocious child; I had merely a good deal 
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