Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . him,and those students who were so fortunate as to be under hisguidance testif) by their own works to the greatness of himwhose intellect they in part reflect. The man who did the most to popularise natural science inEngland was John Tyndall. From his earliest childliood hehad been taught the art of expressing his ideas in a clear andsimple manner. He left school in 1839, and joined a division. 297 706 THE S
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . him,and those students who were so fortunate as to be under hisguidance testif) by their own works to the greatness of himwhose intellect they in part reflect. The man who did the most to popularise natural science inEngland was John Tyndall. From his earliest childliood hehad been taught the art of expressing his ideas in a clear andsimple manner. He left school in 1839, and joined a division. 297 706 THE SUCCESSION OF THE DEMOCRACY. of the Ordnnnco Survey. In 1847 he accepted a teachingappointment at Queenwood College, Hampshire. Here hestayed till the following year, and applied himself chiefly to thestudy of chemistry, along with Dr. Frankland, one of hiscolleagues. In 1848, Tyndall and Frankland went together toMarburg, in Hesse-Cassel. In those days Germany was aheatlof England in the teaching of science, so the two determinedto add a German training to their English education. Tyndallsattention was called to the new property of magnetism, whichFaraday had lately announced, and it was suggested to him byDr. Knoblauch that the two should repeat Faradays experiments,and inquire more closely into the true nature of Pliicker, of Bonn, found that some crystals, made ofdiamagnetic substances, did not exhibit diamagnetic account for this he attributed to crystals an optical axis,which he supposed to be influenced in a peculiar manner whenp
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