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true diaraagnet, with its head a north pole and its feet a 

 south pole. The same is certainly true of man as he stands 

 upon the earth's surface, for all the tissues of the human 

 body are diamagnetic." l The sun's light produces a very 

 quick and perceptible effect upon the photographic plate ; 

 in all probability it has a less effect upon a great variety 

 of substances. We may regard every phenomenon as an 

 exaggerated and conspicuous case of a process which is, in 

 infinitely numerous cases, beyond the means of observa- 

 tion. 



1 Philosophical Transactions, voL cxlvi. p. 249. 



