The Magnetic Kingdom of Nature

DEDICATION.

...and while you regarded them with, perhaps, greater veneration than my thin works deserved, amidst such a variety of arguments, without further prolongation of delay, you wrote letters to me—not only to know the Author, but also to bind yourself to me in the closest bond of friendship—adorned with such energy of words and so many signs of benevolence, that I know not how that hidden and sagacious confluence of character, morals, and studies...