Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 229
wife into his rooms at the Royal Insti-tution. There for forty-six years they lived together,occupying the suite of apartments which had been pre-viously in the successive occupancy of Young, Davy andBrande. . . . When from an Alpine height the eye of the climberranges over the mountains, he finds… … eminences, in nearly all cases lifted others to an almostequal height. And so it is with the discoveries of Far-aday. As a general rule, the dominant result does not stand alone, but forms the cul-minating point of a vast andvaried mass of inquiry. Inthis way, round about his greatdiscovery of…
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