"Fidelity to his religious faith, and the constant observance of the moral law, constitute the ruling characteristics of his life. Doubtless his firm belief in that justice on high which weighs all our merits, in that sovereign goodness which weighs all our sufferings, did not inspire Faraday with his great discoveries, but it gave him the straightforwardness, the self-respect, the self-control, and the spirit of justice, which enabled him to combat evil fortune with boldness, and to accept prosperity without being puffed up.... "There was nothing dramatic in the life of Faraday. It should be presented under that simplicity of aspect which is the grandeur of it. There is, however, more than one useful lesson to be learnt from the proper study of this illustrious man, whose youth endured poverty with dignity, whose mature age bore honours with moderation, and whose last years have just passed gently away surrounded by marks of respect and tender affection." APPENDIX. LIST OF LEARNED SOCIETIES TO WHICH MICHAEL FARADAY BELONGED. ANNO 1823. Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Paris. Corresponding member of the Accademia dei Georgofili, Florence. Honorary member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Honorary member of the British Institution. 1824. Fellow of the Royal Society. Honorary member of the Cambrian Society, Swansea. Fellow of the Geological Society. 1825. Member of the Royal Institution. Corresponding member of the Society of Medical Chemists, Paris. 1826. Honorary member of the Westminster Medical Society. 1827. Correspondent of the Société Philomathique, Paris. 1828. Fellow of the Natural Society of Science, Heidelberg. 1829. Honorary member of the Society of Arts, Scotland. 1831. Honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. 1832. Honorary member of the College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia. Honorary member of the Chemical and Physical Society, Paris. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. Member of the Royal Society of Science, Copenhagen. 1833. Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin. Honorary member of the Hull Philosophical Society. 1834. Foreign corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Palermo. 1835. Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Paris. Honorary member of the Royal Society, Edinburgh. Honorary member of the Institution of British Architects. Honorary member of the Physical Society, Frankfort. Honorary Fellow of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, London. 1836. Senator of the University of London. Honorary member of the Society of Pharmacy, Lisbon. Honorary member of the Sussex Royal Institution. Foreign member of the Society of Sciences, Modena. Foreign member of the Natural History Society, Basle.