All I see. Y-head.
Learn as much as you can and patterns emerge.
This isn't about finding the truth. This is about learning HOW to find the truth. THINK!
Or you, could think about what is actually being said in the quotes you posted. Grok summarized it better than I could put it.
Maxwell was writing about a separate aether field which he believed was separate from matter (atoms) and that view was evolving. If you read what he wrote carefully, you will see that he's not claiming that free charge is stored in the dielectric as Benjamin Franklin did. (Ben Franklin's view was more primitive and ... wrong.)