Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True,

The World Little Knows How Many Of The Thoughts And Theories Which Have Passed Through The Mind Of A Scientific Investigator, Have Been Crushed In Silence And Secrecy By His Own Severe Criticism And Adverse Examination!

I Propose To Distinguish These Bodies By Calling Those Anions Which Go To The Anode Of The Decomposing Body; And Those Passing To The Cathode, Cations; And When I Have Occasion To Speak Of These Together, I Shall Call Them Ions.

Nothing Is To Wonderful To Be True.

When I Consider The Multitude Of Associated Forces Which Are Diffused Through Nature - When I Think Of That Calm Balancing Of Their Energies Which Enables Those Most Powerful In Themselves, Most Destructive To The World's Creatures And Economy, To Dwell Associated Together And Be Made Subservient To The Wants Of Creation, I Rise From The Contemplation More Than Ever Impressed With The Wisdom, The Beneficence, And Grandeur, Beyond Our Language To Express, Of The Great Disposer Of Us All.

When A Mathematician Engaged In Investigating Physical Actions And Results Has Arrived At His Own Conclusions, May They Not Be Expressed In Common Language As Fully, Clearly, And Definitely As In Mathematical Formulae? If So, Would It Not Be A Great Boon To Such As Well To Express Them So -- Translating Them Out Of Their Hieroglyphics That We Might Also Work Upon Them By Experiment?