Faraday to John Gibson Macvicar   25 October 18601

Royal Institution | 25 Octr. 1860

My dear Sir

I am very much obliged by your kindness. I shall have the opportunity of looking at your Tractate2 carefully after a week or two but I am obliged to make a wonderful difference in respect of the manner in which I accept or hold at arms length a fact or body of facts and the superstructure which we of necessity raise upon them. Thanking you most heartily for your kindness

I am My dear Sir | Most truly Yours | M. Faraday

Revd. John G Macvicar | &c &c &c

1
John Gibson Macvicar (1800-1884, ODNB). Minister at Moffat from 1853 and scientific writer.
2
Macvicar (1860).

Bibliography

MacVICAR, John Gibson (1860): The first lines of science simplified, and the structure of molecules attempted, Edinburgh.

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