Nothing Is Ever Too Good To Be

It Is On Record That When A Young Aspirant Asked Faraday The Secret Of His Success As A Scientific Investigator, He Replied, 'the Secret Is Comprised In Three Words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

I ... Express A Wish That You May, In Your Generation, Be Fit To Compare To A Candle; That You May, Like It, Shine As Lights To Those About You; That, In All Your Actions, You May Justify The Beauty Of The Taper By Making Your Deeds Honourable And Effectual In The Discharge Of Your Duty To Your Fellow-men.

I Have Taken Your Advice And The Names Used Are Anode Cathode Anions Cations And Ions The Last I Shall Have But Little Occasion For. I Had Some Hot Objections Made To Them Here And Found Myself Very Much In The Condition Of The Man With His Son And Ass Who Tried To Please Every Body.

Ou Can Hardly Imagine How I Am Struggling To Exert My Poetical Ideas Just Now For The Discovery Of Analogies And Remote Figures Respecting The Earth, Sun, And All Sorts Of Things — For I Think That Is The True Way (corrected By Judgment) To Work Out A Discovery.

All Your Names I And My Friend Approve Of Or Nearly All As To Sense & Expression, But I Am Frightened By Their Length & Sound When Compounded. As You Will See I Have Taken Deoxide And Skaiode Because They Agree Best With My Natural Standard East And West. I Like Anode & Cathode Better As To Sound, But All To Whom I Have Shewn Them Have Supposed At First That By Anode I Meant No Way.