[60] A letter from his nephew, Frank Barnard, to Dr. Gladstone says: “I believe that in his younger days he had his period of hesitation, of questioning in that great argument. I have heard that, so alive was he to the necessity of investigating anything that seemed important, he visited Joanna Southcote, perhaps to learn what that woman’s pretensions were: I think he was a mere lad at that time. But this period once passed, he questioned no more, for the more he saw that Nature was mighty, the more he felt that God was mightier; and to any cavillings upon the doubts of Colenso or the reality of the Mosaic cosmogony, I believe he would simply have replied in the apostle’s words: ‘Is anything too hard for God?’... “I once heard him say from the pulpit, ‘I hope none of my hearers will in these matters listen to the thing called philosophy.’” [61] _Manchester Guardian_, November 27. [62] [This is not altogether accurate. Certainly in his later life Faraday used to hire a cab to take him and Mrs. Faraday to the chapel. S. P. T.] INDEX Abbott, Benjamin, 7, 8, 97, 227; letters to, 7, 9, 15, 22, 25, 26, 41, 44, 228 Acoustical researches, 136 Action at a distance unthinkable, 128, 153, 157, 216 Admiralty, Scientific adviser to the, 68 Æther, the, Speculations upon, 193, 213 Airy, Sir George, Dispute with, 269 Aloofness from scientific organisations, 264 Ampère, Andrée Marie: Meeting with, 19; his researches, 80, 82, 85, 105, 126 Analyst, Faraday’s professional work as, 51, 61, 63, 274 Anderson, Sergeant: engaged as assistant, 96; his implicit obedience, 97, 242 Andrews, Professor T., Letter to, 273 Apparatus, Simplicity of, 239 Arago, F.: Meeting with, 34, 238; his notations, 106, 116, 118; his philosophical reserve, 107 Armstrong, Lord, on electrification of steam, 170 Artists amongst acquaintances, 246 Astley’s Theatre, 51 Athenæum Club, 59 Atmospheric magnetism, 206, 209, 210 Atoms or centres of force, 241 Autobiographical notes, 8, 17, 50, 58, 70, 71, 73, 76, 223, 243 B. Babbage, Charles, 107, 116, 262 Barnard, Edward, 46 ----, Frank, 250, 286 ----, George, 46, 51, 74, 89, 224, 246, 294 ----, Miss Jane, 46, 259 ----, ---- Sarah (Mrs. Faraday), 46, 294 Becker, Dr., Letter to, 244 Bence Jones’s “Life and Letters of Faraday,” 7, 26, 40, 43, 48, 57, 58, 78, 108, 199, 226, 231, 293 Benzol, Discovery of, 94, 101 Bidwell, S., magnetic action of light, 184 Biographies of Faraday (_see_ PREFACE) Boltzmann: on crystalline dielectrics, 166; on the doctrines of Faraday and Maxwell, 216 Bookbinding, 5, 6, 17, 249 Bookselling, 5, 17, 26, 31