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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: 'endeavours to dismiss the ether but not the vibrations.' The idea
here set forth is the natural supplement of his previous notion,
that it is gravitating force which constitutes matter, each atom
extending, so to say, throughout the whole of the solar system.
The letter to Mr. Phillips winds up with this beautiful
conclusion:--
'I think it likely that I have made many mistakes in the preceding
pages, for even to myself my ideas on this point appear only as the
shadow of a speculation, or as one of those impressions upon the
mind which are allowable for a time as guides to thought and
research. He who labours in experimental inquiries, knows how
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