The recent claims by Rajaet al. [1,2] are corrected in this reply. It is shown that there is no Faraday induction due toB ⁽³⁾in vacuo, as observed by these authors. The observation of the inverse Faraday effect by these authors is an observation of theB ⁽³⁾field at second order. Their data, correctly interpreted, constitute strong support for the existence and predicted properties of theB ⁽³⁾field.