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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: period or another speak to you regarding Faraday and his work is
natural, if not inevitable; but I did not expect to be called upon
to speak so soon. Still the bare suggestion that this is the fit
and proper time for speech sent me immediately to my task: from it
I have returned with such results as I could gather, and also with
the wish that those results were more worthy than they are of the
greatness of my theme.
It is not my intention to lay before you a life of Faraday in the
ordinary acceptation of the term. The duty I have to perform is
to give you some notion of what he has done in the world; dwelling
incidentally on the spirit in which his work was executed,
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