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Position in Space, or with the Foundation-and-Back 

 or the Remote Depths of an Edifice the Metals 

 being therefore more numerous than the Non-Metals 

 in the general proportion of 3 to 1, or of a duplica- 

 tion both downward and backward. 



14 Further, it is observed, that the Non-Metals, 

 Aerial, Upward-and- Front-wise-tending, or, as it were, 

 visibly presentative, are generically Electro-Negative, 

 or allied with the Lightning, the Grand Type, and, 

 as it were, Fountain, of Electricity in the Cosmos, 

 and with its Aerial Position overhead, or above ; and 

 Electro-Negative because they are so allied, since 

 things are not attracted to the Pole of Being which 

 is identical with their own nature ; they, therefore, 

 being of the nature of the Lightning and of the 

 Light (or Front-Presence) are attracted to the 

 Metals, which are of the nature of the Earth beneath, 

 and of Obscurity, or of that region of the Edifice (or 

 of the Human Body, to which the Edifice is an Ad- 

 justment) which is posited doivmvard and behind. 

 On the contrary, the Metals, being " of the Earth, 

 earthy," are, for thai reason, Electro-Positive, or 

 capable of attracting the Lightning, and of being 

 attracted by it. 



15. To represent these Great New Aspects of 

 Science, which, it will be subsequently found, conduct 

 to a thousand important Scientific consequences as 

 remote from this beginning as the Electric Telegraph 

 from Franklin's Kite, and yet as logically connected 

 with it, the Architectural Figure or Diagram of an 

 Edifice is presented not merely as a bauble, nor 



