rendered Faraday strong and refined. A favourite experiment of his
own was representative of himself. He loved to show that water in
crystallizing excluded all foreign ingredients, however intimately
they might be mixed with it. Out of acids, alkalis, or saline
solutions, the crystal came sweet and pure. By some such natural
process in the formation of this man, beauty and nobleness coalesced,
to the exclusion of everything vulgar and low. He did not learn his
gentleness in the world, for he withdrew himself from its culture;
and still this land of England contained no truer gentleman than he.
Not half his greatness was incorporate in his science, for science
could not reveal the bravery and delicacy of his heart.
But it is time that I should end these weak words, and lay my poor
garland on the grave of this
Just and faithful knight of God.
End of Project Gutenberg Etext of Faraday As A Discoverer, by Tyndall