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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: of the same kind as that which, in relation to matter, we endeavour
to express by the terms magnetic and diamagnetic. To confuse these
together would be to confound space with matter, and to trouble all
the conceptions by which we endeavour to understand and work out a
progressively clearer view of the mode of action, and the laws of
natural forces. It would be as if in gravitation or electric forces,
one were to confound the particles acting on each other with the
space across which they are acting, and would, I think, shut the
door to advancement. Mere space cannot act as matter acts, even
though the utmost latitude be allowed to the hypothesis of an ether;
and admitting that hypothesis, it would be a large additional
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