"I have never known a man more worthy of being loved, of being admired, of being mourned.

"Fidelity to his religious faith, and the constant observance of the moral law, constitute the ruling characteristics of his life. Doubtless his firm belief in that justice on high which weighs all our merits, in that sovereign goodness which weighs all our sufferings, did not inspire Faraday with his great discoveries, but it gave him the straightforwardness, the self-respect, the self-control, and the spirit of justice, which enabled him to combat evil fortune with boldness, and to accept prosperity without being puffed up....

"There was nothing dramatic in the life of Faraday. It should be presented under that simplicity of aspect which is the grandeur of it. There is, however, more than one useful lesson to be learnt from the proper study of this illustrious man, whose youth endured poverty with dignity, whose mature age bore honours with moderation, and whose last years have just passed gently away surrounded by marks of respect and tender affection."

APPENDIX.
LIST OF LEARNED SOCIETIES TO WHICH MICHAEL FARADAY BELONGED.

ANNO
1823.Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
Corresponding member of the Accademia dei Georgofili, Florence.
Honorary member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Honorary member of the British Institution.
1824.Fellow of the Royal Society.
Honorary member of the Cambrian Society, Swansea.
Fellow of the Geological Society.
1825.Member of the Royal Institution.
Corresponding member of the Society of Medical Chemists, Paris.
1826.Honorary member of the Westminster Medical Society.
1827.Correspondent of the Société Philomathique, Paris.
1828.Fellow of the Natural Society of Science, Heidelberg.
1829.Honorary member of the Society of Arts, Scotland.
1831.Honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.
1832.Honorary member of the College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia.
Honorary member of the Chemical and Physical Society, Paris.
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston.
Member of the Royal Society of Science, Copenhagen.
1833.Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin.
Honorary member of the Hull Philosophical Society.
1834.Foreign corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Palermo.
1835.Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Paris.
Honorary member of the Royal Society, Edinburgh.
Honorary member of the Institution of British Architects.
Honorary member of the Physical Society, Frankfort.
Honorary Fellow of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, London.
1836.Senator of the University of London.
Honorary member of the Society of Pharmacy, Lisbon.
Honorary member of the Sussex Royal Institution.
Foreign member of the Society of Sciences, Modena.
Foreign member of the Natural History Society, Basle.
1837.Honorary member of the Literary and Scientific Institution, Liverpool.
1838.Honorary member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm.
1840.Member of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
Honorary member of the Hunterian Medical Society, Edinburgh.
1842.Foreign Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin.
1843.Honorary member of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester.
Honorary member of the Useful Knowledge Society, Aix-la-Chapelle.
1844.Foreign Associate of the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
Honorary member of the Sheffield Scientific Society.
1845.Corresponding member of the National Institute, Washington.
Corresponding member of the Société d'Encouragement, Paris.
1846.Honorary member of the Society of Sciences, Vaud.
1847.Member of the Academy of Sciences, Bologna.
Foreign Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium.
Fellow of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich.
Correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
1848.Foreign honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
1849.Honorary member, first class, of the Institut Royal des Pays Bas.
Foreign correspondent of the Institute, Madrid.
1850.Corresponding Associate of the Accademia Pontificia, Rome.
Foreign Associate of the Academy of Sciences, Haarlem.
1851.Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, The Hague.
Corresponding member of the Batavian Society of Experimental Philosophy, Rotterdam.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Sciences, Upsala.
1853.Foreign Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Turin.
Honorary member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, Mauritius.
1854.Corresponding Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Naples.
1855.Honorary member of the Imperial Society of Naturalists, Moscow.
Corresponding Associate of the Imperial Institute of Sciences of Lombardy.
1856.Corresponding member of the Netherlands' Society of Sciences, Batavia.
Member of the Imperial Royal Institute, Padua.
1857.Member of the Institute of Breslau.
Corresponding Associate of the Institute of Sciences, Venice.
Member of the Imperial Academy, Breslau.
1858.Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pesth.
1860.Foreign Associate of the Academy of Sciences, Pesth.
Honorary member of the Philosophical Society, Glasgow.
1861.Honorary member of the Medical Society, Edinburgh.
1863.Foreign Associate of the Imperial Academy of Medicine, Paris.
1864.Foreign Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Naples.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] These books, with others bound by Faraday, are preserved in a special cabinet at the Royal Institution, together with more valuable documents,—the laboratory notes of Davy and those of Faraday, his notes of Tatum's and Davy's lectures, copies of his published papers with annotations and indices, notes for lectures and Friday evening discourses, account books, and various memoranda, together with letters from Wollaston, Young, Herschel, Whewell, Mitscherlich, and many others of his fellow-workers in science. These were the gift of his widow, in accordance with his own desire.