¶ … obituary is addressed to a lay audience and, therefore, focuses on points that made Faraday particularly compelling to the 'person of the street' of his time. Two of these points are the magnetic appeal of Faraday's lectures, and the "rarest felicity of experimenting." Both of these points are dwelt on since, as the author observes, it is unusual that so many are attracted to an topic that is usually obtuse, that these lectures attract particularly the youth who would, in any other instance, prefer to attend lighter more generally appealing affairs, and that the fact that they did so, no doubt, indicated a magical aspect to Faraday's lectures. There certainly must have been a magical attribute if, as Chapter 1 notes, there were oftentimes "more than one thousand people crammed into this space, many standing on the stairs and passageways." One thousand people attending a scientific lecture for no other reason than for its enjoyment is a rarity. Faraday must have been an exceptional lecturer indeed. And so...
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