Electricity is often called wonderful, beautiful; but it is so only in
common with the other forces of nature. The beauty of electricity or of
any other force is not that the power is mysterious, and unexpected,
touching every sense at unawares in turn, but that it is under law,
and that the taught intellect can even govern it largely. The human
mind is placed above, and not beneath it, and it is in such a point of
view that the mental education afforded by science is rendered
super-eminent in dignity, in practical application and utility; for by
enabling the mind to apply the natural power through law, it conveys the
gifts of God to man.
- Michael Faraday, Notes for a Friday Discourse at the Royal Institution (1858)
- Michael Faraday, Notes for a Friday Discourse at the Royal Institution (1858)
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