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Faraday and his Contemporaries1

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YOU all know Lord Byron's reply to the malignant diatribe on his “Hours of Idleness,” published by the Edinburgh Review, the slating critique which advised him “that he do forthwith abandon poetry, and turn his talents, which are considerable, and his opportunities, which are great, to better account.”

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COHEN, E. Faraday and his Contemporaries1. Nature 115, 1014–1016 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/1151014a0

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