He submitted his conclusions to numberless tests.

He purposely introduced secondary actions.

He endeavoured to hamper the fulfilment of those laws which it was the intense desire of his mind to see established.

But from all these difficulties emerged the golden truth, that under every variety of circumstances the decompositions of the voltaic current are as definite in their character as those chemical combinations which gave birth to the atomic theory.

This law of Electro-chemical Decomposition ranks, in point of importance, with that of Definite Combining Proportions in chemistry.
Footnotes to Chapter 6 [1] I copy these words from the printed abstract of a Friday evening lecture, given by myself, because they remind me of Faraday's voice, responding to the utterance by an emphatic 'hear! hear!'-- Proceedings of the Royal Institution, vol.
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