Of course.
This article wasn't some inspirational mush published in Reader's Digest or Yi Lin.
But actually a short essay serialized in a type of school newspaper Xu Yun often came across during his student years.
That kind of paper cost about fifty bucks per semester, with 90% of space filled with various kinds of questions. Sometimes, though, there were articles tucked away in the corners.
The school paper and another book called Current Affairs were pretty much the rare channels Xu Yun had back then to access news from society while at school.
No idea if, after almost twenty years, these things still exist.
Anyway.
In Faraday's Regret,
The author wrote that Faraday didn't receive a good education, had poor language skills, and his papers were hard to understand.
So his series of major discoveries didn't cause much of a stir at the time.
Wheat, though, had received excellent schooling, so he managed to summarize and discover electromagnetic waves.
