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[Illustration: MICHAEL FARADAY.]


MICHAEL FARADAY:

Man of Science.

by

WALTER JERROLD.


   "Whose work was wrought for love, and not for gain."

   "One rule his life was fashioned to fulfil;
      That he who tends Truth's shrine and does the hest
    Of Science, with a humble, faithful will,
      The God of Truth and Knowledge serveth best."







Fleming H. Revell Company,
New York      Chicago      Toronto
Publishers of Evangelical Literature.




                            [Illustration]

                               PREFACE.


"Tyndall, I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last." In these
words, with which he replied to Professor Tyndall's urgent appeal to
him to accept the Presidency of the Royal Society, we have a key-note
to the character of the illustrious yet modest scientist, the good and
great man, whose life