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Nothing Is Ever Too Good To Be True.

Why, Sir, There Is Every Probability That You Will Soon Be Able To Tax It! Said To William Gladstone, The Chancellor Of The Exchequer, When He Asked About The Practical Worth Of Electricity.

The World Little Knows How Many Of The Thoughts And Theories Which Have Passed Through The Mind Of A Scientific Investigator, Have Been Crushed In Silence And Secrecy By His Own Severe Criticism And Adverse Examination!

I Propose To Distinguish These Bodies By Calling Those Anions Which Go To The Anode Of The Decomposing Body; And Those Passing To The Cathode, Cations; And When I Have Occasion To Speak Of These Together, I Shall Call Them Ions.

Ou Can Hardly Imagine How I Am Struggling To Exert My Poetical Ideas Just Now For The Discovery Of Analogies And Remote Figures Respecting The Earth, Sun, And All Sorts Of Things — For I Think That Is The True Way (corrected By Judgment) To Work Out A Discovery.