50 Faraday as a Discoverer. 
Three years subsequent to the publication of these researches, 
that is to say on the 29th of January, 1835, Faraday read be- 
fore the Royal Society a paper “ On the influence by induction — 
of an electric current upon itself.” A shock ana spark of a 
peculiar character had been observed bya young man named 
William Jenkin, who must have been a youth of some scientific 
promise, but who, as Faraday once informed me, was dissua- 
ded by his own father from having anything to do with science. 
The investigation of the fact noticed by Mr. Jenkin led Faraday 
to the discovery of the extra current, or the current induced in 
the ary wire itself at the moments of making and break- 
ing contact, the phenomena of which he described and illustra-- 
in the beautiful and exhaustive paper referred to. : 
Seven and thirty years have passed since the discovery , 
magneto-electricity ; but, if we except the extra current, un 
quite recently nothing of moment was added to the subjec 
‘araday entertained the opinion that the discoverer of a great 
law or principle had a right to the “ spoils’”—this was his term 
—arising from its illustration ; ; and guided by the principle ’ 
had discovered, his wonderful mind, aided by his wonderful tea 
ers, Overran in a single autumn this vast domain, and hardly 
bode bebe him the shred of a fact to be gathered by his suc 
ates here the question may arise in some minds, Wha 
the use of it all? The answer is, that if man’s intellec 
nature thirsts for knowledge, then knowledge i is use 
it satisfies this thirst. If you demand practical ends, you 
must, I think, expand your fine of the term practi 
and make it include all that elevates and enlightens the in 
u umed a eco us countenance 2! 
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I am sor for it; iti 1s putting new arms into the hands of the Siete 
occu 10 papers had bee: th the doings 
rick pea An erroneous statement of what fell from the Dean’s mouth 
printed at the time in one of the Oxford pet 
have said, ‘It is putting new arms into: Eas o is there wrongly stated 
