IDENTICAL CHANGES 



positive electricity, and the stick of sealing wax 

 that is excited with negative electricity, do attract 

 each other ; more and over and above the attraction 

 of gravitation for each other. That is to say, the 

 inequality of pressure on the void matter in 

 straight lines between the glass rod and sealing 

 wax, and the pressure on the void matter not in 

 these straight lines, produced by the process of 

 life in the normal earth current, is by the elec- 

 trical excitation intensified and increased. 



But that abnormal increase cannot alter the 

 whole current, and while the electricity alters the 

 rapidity of the change in the process of life of the 

 sealing wax and glass rod, it does not alter the 

 normal change in the whole earth. 



Then because gravity is a manifestation of force 

 between an identical body and the whole material 

 composing the earth, and because every manifesta- 

 tion of force requires yielding on one side as well 

 as pressure on the other side, therefore if the at- 

 traction of gravity is to be increased in the glass 

 rod there has to be an alteration in the life process 

 of the whole mass of the earth also, or else some 

 nearby identical body must undergo an equivalent 

 change. Generally the earth is deemed to be a 

 great . reservoir of negative electricity; it is able 

 to absorb or neutralize all the positive electricity 

 we may generate. Still there has to be some proper 

 ground connection. This does not in any way 

 contradict a theory that electricity is an inequality 

 of the rapidity of exchange in the life process of 

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