ON MAGNETISM. 695 



mit some paradoxical propositions, which are only surprising on account of the 

 imperfect state of our knowledge. Yet, little as we can understand the intimate 

 nature of magnetical actions, they exhibit to us a number of extremely amus- 

 ing as well as interesting phenomena; and the principles of crystallization, 

 and even of vital growth and reproduction, are no where so closely imitated, 

 as in the arrangement of the small particles of iron in the neighbourhood of 

 a magnet, and in the production of a multitude of complete magnets, from 

 the influence of a parent of the same kind. 



