IN my little book on Faraday, published in 1868, I have stated that he had but to will it to raise his income in 1832, to five thousand pounds a year. In 1836, the sum might have been doubled. Yet this son of a blacksmith, this journeyman bookbinder, with his proud and sensitive soul, rejecting the splendid opportunities open to him— refusing even to think them splendid in presence of his higher aims -cheerfully accepted from the Trinity House a pittance of two hundred pounds a year. JOHN TYNDALL. |