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rise, as we before observed, to the science of statics, most 

 improperly called celestial mechanics. 



In strict consistence with the same philosophy which, 

 instead of considering the powers of bodies to have been 

 miraculously stuck into a prepared and pre-existing 

 matter, as pins into a pin-cushion, conceives the powers 

 as the productive factors, and the body or phenomenon as 

 the fact, product, or fixture ; we revert again to poten- 

 tiated length in the power of magnetism ; to surface in 

 the power of electricity ; and to the synthesis of both, or 

 potentiated depth, in constructive, that is, chemical 

 affinity. But while the two factors are as poles to each 

 other, each factor has likewise its own poles, and thus in 

 the simple cross 



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M M being the magnetic line, with ff its northern 

 pole, or pole of attraction ; and m m its south, or pole of 

 repulsion, and E E one of the lines that spring from each 

 point of M M, with its east, or pole of contraction, and 

 d its west, or pole of diffluence and expansion we have 

 presented to us the universal quadruplicity, or four 

 elemental forms of power ; in the endless proportions and 



