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法拉第回忆初见
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他心里最心塞的事儿。。
' My dear Sir,—You asked me to give you an account
of my first introduction to Sir H. Davy, which I am
very happy to do, as I think the circumstances will
bear testimony to the goodness of his heart.
' When I was a bookseller's apprentice I was very
fond of experiment and very adverse to trade. It
happened that a gentleman, a member of the Boyal
Institution, took me to hear some of Sir H. Davy's last
lectures in Albemarle Street. I took notes, and after-
wards wrote them out more fairly in a quarto volume.
' My desire to escape from trade, which I thought
vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of
Science, which I imagined made its pursuers amiable
and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and
simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy, expressing my
wishes, and a hope that if an opportunity came in his
way he would favour my views ; at the same time, I
sent the notes I had taken of his lectures.
' The answer, which makes all the point of my com-
munication, I send you in the original, requesting you
to take great care of it, and to let me have it back, for
you may imagine how much I value it.
< You will observe that this took place at the end of
the year 1812 ; and early in 1813 he requested to see
me, and told me of the situation of assistant in the
laboratory of the Eoyal Institution, then just vacant.
' At the same time that he thus gratified my desires
as to scientific employment, he still advised me not to
give up the prospects I had before me, telling me that
Science was a harsh mistress, and in a pecuniary point
of view but poorly rewarding those who devoted them-
selves to her service. He smiled at my notion of the
superior moral feelings of philosophic men, and said he
would leave me to the experience of a few years to set
me right on that matter.
' Finally, through his good efforts, I went to the Eoyal
Institution, early in March of 1813, as assistant in the
laboratory ; and in October of the same year went with
him abroad, as his assistant in experiments and in writ-
ing. I returned with him in April 1815, resumed my
station in the Eoyal Institution, and have, as you know,
ever since remained there.