182 Faraday as a Discoverer. 
through his ability to tone down and subdue that fire and that 
excitability, so as to render himself able to write thus asa lit 
tle child ? I once took the liberty of censuring the conclusion 
of a letter of his to the Dean of St. Paul’s. He subscribed 
himself ‘‘ humbly yours,” and I objected to the adverb, “ Well, 
but, Tyndall,” he said, “I am humble; and still it would bes | 
great mistake to think that Iam not also proud.” This duality 
ran through his character. A democrat in his defiance of all 
during which I wrote to Faraday, giving him no details, eg 
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when opposed, as I have thought unjustly and superel 
yet I have striven, and ibceeded I hope; 1 keeping down © 
