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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: looseness, and sometimes the inaccuracy, of the phraseology
employed; but this critical spirit will get little good out of
Faraday. Rather let those who ponder his works seek to realise the
object he set before him, not permitting his occasional vagueness to
interfere with their appreciation of his speculations. We may see
the ripples, and eddies, and vortices of a flowing stream, without
being able to resolve all these motions into their constituent
elements; and so it sometimes strikes me that Faraday clearly saw
the play of fluids and ethers and atoms, though his previous
training did not enable him to resolve what he saw into its
constituents, or describe it in a manner satisfactory to a mind
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