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Like his father and grandfather, Michael Faraday was a Sandemanian. He made his confession of faith in 1821, married into another leading Sandemanian family and became an elder in 1840. In proclaiming his faith, Faraday joined the small company of believers pledged to practise Christianity with fundamentalist purity by living their lives according to the Bible and in imitation of Christ’s perfect thoughts and deeds.
He sees in Nature’s laws a code divine,
A living Presence he must first adore,
Ere he the sacred mysteries explore,
Where Cosmos is his temple, Earth his shrine.1
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Cantor, G.N. (1985). Reading the Book of Nature: The Relation Between Faraday’s Religion and his Science. In: Gooding, D., James, F.A.J.L. (eds) Faraday Rediscovered. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11139-8_5
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