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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: The deep radiance, which in his time of strength flashed with such
extraordinary power from his countenance, had subsided to a calm and
kindly light, by which my latest memory of him is warmed and
illuminated. I knelt one day beside him on the carpet and placed my
hand upon his knee; he stroked it affectionately, smiled, and
murmured, in a low soft voice, the last words that I remember as
having been spoken to me by Michael Faraday.
It was my wish and aspiration to play the part of Schiller to this
Goethe: and he was at times so strong and joyful--his body so
active, and his intellect so clear--as to suggest to me the thought
that he, like Goethe, would see the younger man laid low. Destiny
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