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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: the earth, namely, a relation established, more or less, through the
air itself in connection with the space above it; and even magnetic
relations and variations, which are not as yet suspected, may be
suggested and rendered manifest and measurable, in the further
development of what I will venture to call Atmospheric Magnetism.
I may be over-sanguine in these expectations, but as yet I am sustained
in them by the apparent reality, simplicity, and sufficiency of the
cause assumed, as it at present appears to my mind. As soon as I
have submitted these views to a close consideration, and the test of
accordance with observation, and, where applicable, with experiments
also, I will do myself the honour to bring them before the Royal
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