MECHANISM OF NATURE 



therefore, it is not a displacement of Primary 

 Spheres of void matter in plane Layers. 



The peculiar action first observed of electrified 

 bodies was the attraction for other bodies that glass 

 or rosin showed after being rubbed with some dry 

 non-conductor of heat. 



And because the glass, after excitation, will at- 

 tract various substances and after that repel them 

 to be attracted by the excited rosin, and because 

 two glass rods electrically excited will repel each 

 other, as will also two sticks of rosin, and the glass 

 will attract the rosin, therefore, it is evident that 

 there are two kinds of electricity. 



And in all electrical phenomena there comes into 

 play an element of plus and minus, a positive and 

 a negative. That this positive and this negative 

 are really two different kinds of electricity does not 

 necessarily follow ; for any plus anywhere is always 

 the result of some minus somewhere else; there 

 can be no unqualified plus anywhere without an 

 act of creation. 



Positive electricity will flow from a wire in- 

 tensely electrified to a wire that is charged with 

 positive electricity of low intensity. 



Neither positive nor negative electricity is an 

 inherent quality of any material, for both have to 

 be generated by friction or chemical energy, or 

 mechanical motion or heat, and between all of these 

 there is a perfect equivalent of production, and 

 result in changing one into the other. And, after 

 all, electricity, as well as any other manifestation 

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