fulfilled; but every case of fulfilment abolished all memory of
defeat; disappointment was swallowed up in victory.

After the description of the general character of this new force,
Faraday states with the emphasis here reproduced its mode of action:
'The law of action appears to be that the line or axis of
MAGNE-CRYSTALLIC force (being the resultant of the action of all the
molecules) tends to place itself parallel, or as a tangent, to the
magnetic curve, or line of magnetic force, passing through the place
where the crystal is situated.' The magne-crystallic force,
moreover, appears to him 'to be clearly distinguished from the
magnetic or diamagnetic forces, in that it causes neither approach
nor recession, consisting not in attraction or repulsion, but in
giving a certain determinate position to the mass under its
influence.' And then he goes on 'very carefully to examine and prove
the conclusion that there was no connection of the force with
attractive or repulsive influences.' With the most refined ingenuity
he shows that, under certain circumstances, the magne-crystallic
force can cause the centre of gravity of a highly magnetic body to
retreat from the poles, and the centre of gravity of a highly
diamagnetic body to approach them. His experiments root his mind
more and more firmly in the conclusion that 'neither attraction nor
repulsion causes the set, or governs the final position' of the
crystal in the magnetic field. That the force which does so is
therefore 'distinct in its character and effects from the magnetic
and diamagnetic forms of force. On the other hand,' he continues,
'it has a most manifest relation to the crystalline structure of
bismuth and other bodies, and therefore to the power by which their
molecules are able to build up the crystalline masses.'