As Being in the Domain of Logie. 
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A. As every student of the universe understands, there are cer¬ 
tain preliminaries which have to be gone through with as a prepa¬ 
ration for specific scientific work. There is the training of the 
senses to alertness, so as to have exact apprehension of all things 
within their range, and the art of arming them for better work, 
together with the training of those higher powers of mental appre¬ 
hension which play upon the part of the universe the senses are 
not related to, and the art of arming them. Still more essential 
is there the bringing of the sensibilities into full responsiveness, 
without which it is as impossible to find the real universe or any 
of its territories, or any of the facts in their real significance 
in any of these territories, as it is to find the truth of the Apollo 
Belvidere without any sensibility of courage or moral nobleness 
or high defiance, or anger at the evil at which he sends his 
death-delivering arrows. How can one find the real secret of 
the universe or of any of its parts without sensibility to the love 
which floods them all; its beauty without a soul to feel its beauty; 
its pressure of holiness unless his spirit thrills to the moods of 
its holy administration? Not one thing does the student find 
in its real character until his soul answers to the soul of all 
things, as no fiber of the hand can be understood or is other 
than an unsolvable riddle until the purpose of royal manhood 
comes to explain it. Then, almost the condition of all is the 
training of the will for the procedures of science, for I sometimes 
think that the highest and sublimest examples of trained will are 
found, not in great statesmen who conduct nations in long criti¬ 
cal periods of inertia or passionate turbulence, or in military 
captains, who hold armies in the vicissitudes of long wars until 
they have waded by alternate victory and failure through battles 
of blood and encampments and marches to peace and settled order, 
but in the silent conflicts of study, where, perhaps in poverty, is 
no support by the gaze of men and the eclat of parties, nor any 
stimulation by the thunders of the captains and the bliss of 
battle. 
You will observe that all these preparations for the work of 
study, which make you men of science what you are — made 
Faraday what he was — are ordered in inferences logically 
derived, as regards what they shall be in measure and in form, 
