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We did not see any spark, but other physicists have done 

 so on several occasions. 



( 43 ) p. 23. "Awakened by the contact of moist 

 dissimilar particles" 



In all parts of organic bodies dissimilar substances are 

 in contact with each other : in all, solids are associated 

 with fluids. Thus, wherever there is organization and life, 

 there is also electric tension or the play of the voltaic pile, 

 as the experiments of Nobili and Matteucci, and especially 

 the latest admirable labours of Emil du Bois, teach us. The 

 last named physicist has succeeded in "manifesting the 

 presence of the electric muscular current in living and 

 wholly uninjured animal bodies:" he shews that "the 

 human body, through the medium of a copper wire, can 

 cause a magnetic needle at a distance to be deflected at 

 pleasure, first in one and then in the opposite direction." 

 (Untersuchungen iiber thierische Electricetat, von Emil du 

 Bois-Reymond, 1848, Bd. i. S. xv.) I have witnessed 

 these movements produced at pleasure, and have had the grati- 

 fication of seeing thereby great and unexpected light thrown 

 on phenomena to which I had laboriously and hopefully 

 devoted several years of my youth. 



( 44 ) p. 23." Osiris and Tynhon" 



On the conflict between two races of men, the Arabian 

 pastoral people in Lower Egypt, and the agricultural race in 

 Upper Egypt who were in a more advanced state of civilisa- 

 tion, on the fair-haired Prince Baby or Typhon, who founded 



