IDENTICAL CHANGES 



And these bodies must possess some inequality. 

 (Prop. XVIII, B. 1.) 



Electricity that is transmitted continuously from 

 one body to another body must be transmitted 

 through a continuous stream of material from the 

 transmitting body to the receiving body. (Prop. 

 XVII, B. 1.) 



And evidently when the transmission is inter- 

 mittent, the flow of matter must also be inter- 

 mittent. 



Because electricity does not increase or decrease 

 the Mass of bodies that are concerned in any mani- 

 festation of electricity, therefore, it is evident that 

 no organized material is abstracted from one body 

 and added to the other. And mainly for this 

 reason electricity is generally looked upon as an 

 occult power, needing no material for transmis- 

 sion, an energy, a force that is a primary identity 

 rather than a peculiar result of the one Primary 

 Cause, working, through mechanical displacement, 

 on peculiar living identities. 



Electricity is claimed to be motion, vibration, 

 life, primary Cause, expression of infinite mind, or 

 anything else to fit a preconceived scheme. 



And yet electricity is ever associated with mate- 

 rial, even the electricity of the heavens requires 

 the thunder clouds to be brought to our perception. 



And that change which electricity performs on 



any material, it will invariably perform under like 



conditions on like material. The laws that govern 



electricity are invariable and constant, and every 



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