One has more happiness in oneself in endeavouring to follow the things that make for peace.

You can hardly imagine how often I have been heated in private when opposed, as I have thought, unjustly and superciliously, and yet I have striven, and succeeded, I hope, in keeping down replies of the like kind.

And I know I have never lost by it.

I would not say all this to you did I not esteem you as a true philosopher and friend.[1] 'Yours, very truly, 'M.

Faraday.' Footnote to Chapter 4 [1] Faraday would have been rejoiced to learn that, during its last meeting at Dundee, the British Association illustrated in a striking manner the function which he here describes as its principal one.