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helsinkiandrew: "Faraday Life and Letters" is a good read (long out of copyright) and includes a description of his scientific tour of Europe with Sir Humphry Davy during the Napoleonic wars.Google Books: https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5Qa...

graemep: There are a number of links to the author's related writings: http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/monopolizingknowledge.net/links.ht...The one on Maxwell is particularly interesting, as his religion lead to strong political positions as he was influenced by a Christian Socialist:"Maxwell did not adopt Maurice's theological positions as a whole[11], but he did become convinced of one of Maurice's key tenets, that the dehumanization of the working class in an industrializing society was to be prevented by a cooperative approach in which workers were given greater influence though education. Maurice and his friends set up Working Men's Colleges, and Maxwell, seeing this as a vital Christian service, taught Working Men's classes weekly till at least 1866. "http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/Maxwell/