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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: no doubt that in this case what is called 'the electric current' was
propagated from particle to particle of the electrolyte; he accepted
the doctrine of decomposition and recomposition which, according to
Grothuss and Davy, ran from electrode to electrode. And the thought
impressed him more and more that ordinary electric induction was
also transmitted and sustained by the action of 'contiguous
particles.'
His first great paper on frictional electricity was sent to the
Royal Society on November 30, 1837. We here find him face to face
with an idea which beset his mind throughout his whole subsequent
life,--the idea of action at a distance. It perplexed and
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