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PROFESSOR TYNDALL’S “ FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE 
FOR UNSCIENTIFIC PEOPLE,”— in relation with 
Theology and Religion. — By the Rev. W. J. Irons, D.D., 
Prebendary of St. Paul’s, and late Bampton Lecturer. 
A STORY is told by Professor Tyndall in his review of Dr, 
Bence Jones’s Life of Faraday, which few persons of 
education could read without regret. It seems that , 
Faraday was present during a conversation that erne, and its 
passed between Sir Humphrey Davy and Wollaston, ampieln' WoT- 
as to the connexion of electricity with magnetism. 
Wollaston had perceived that a wire carrying a 
current ought to rotate round its own axis under the influence 
of a magnetic pole. Something similar to this, indeed scarcely 
distinguishable from it, was noticed and announced by Faraday 
some months later; but, it seems, without any allusion to Wol- 
laston, or to the conversation with Davy ; and then there arose 
some jealousy, suspicion, and resentment. “ Wollaston’s ideas 
had been appropriated without acknowledgment !” 
2. This, with another equally unpleasant anecdote about the 
analysis of hydrate of chlorine by Faraday, and the liquefying 
of another gas by Davy “in the same way,” was Another ex _ 
allowed in the scientific world to irritate the mind of ample. Davy 
Faraday, one of the best and noblest-hearted of men. and Farad<iy - 
Outside the coteries, probably no one believed that Sir Hum- 
phrey Davy was jealous, or Faraday capable of the meanness 
imputed to him. The narrow-mindedness which belongs to the 
serai-educated will alone account for the development of the 
odium scientificum in such instances as these. 
3. It were much to be wished that the tone of mind thus de- 
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