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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1 1 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
tirely simple and elementary. This substance, I believed, was the elective power of the future. At that time, so far as I knew, no thought of any connection between magnetism and galvanic electricity had occurred to the scientific mind. For nearly two years, I pursued my scientific studies. They were substantially outside of the course, because our professor of chemistry, Dr. Holmes, for reasons satisfactory to himself, did not think it worth while to give lectures on chemistry. Prof. George W. Keeley, however, gave us the fullest instructions on light and static electricity, by which I very much profited. I believe it was at that time that I first heard of Miss Sommerville's conceptions as to the polarization of light. Of course, these studies did not advance my standing in my regular recitations, some of which I must confess were wretched. I remember one in geometry which called forth an animadversion and a reply, neither of which was proper, between teacher and pupil. The