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Quotation from The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
“that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.”
The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture VI (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes))
The closing wish of the course, in which the candle becomes a moral emblem for the children in the audience.
Citation: "that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men." — Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture VI (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes)). (id faraday-chemical-history-of-a-candle-q7)
Portrait: M Faraday Th Phillips oil 1842, Thomas Phillips, Public domain.
