scientist at a salary of six dollars a week, with two rooms at the
top of the house, to wash bottles, clean the instruments, move
them to and from the lecture rooms, and make himself generally
useful in the laboratory and out of it, no happier youth could be
found in all London.

The door was open; not, indeed, wide, but sufficiently to allow
this ardent disciple to work his way into the innermost shrine of
the temple of science. Though it took years and years of plodding,
incessant work and study, and a devotion to purpose with which
nothing was allowed to interfere, it made Faraday, by virtue of
his marvelous discoveries in electricity, electro-magnetism, and
chemistry, a world benefactor, honored not only by his own country
and sovereign, but by other rulers and leading nations of the
earth, as one of the greatest chemists and natural philosophers of
his time.

So great has been his value to the scientific world, that his
theories are still a constant source of inspiration to the workers
in those great professions allied to electricity and chemistry. No
library is complete without his published works. What wonder that
Davy called Faraday his greatest discovery!





THE TRIUMPH OF CANOVA