MECHANISM OF NATURE 



difference on iron and hydrocarbons, while yet they 

 are composed of strictly similar Primary Spheres, 

 that difference can only result from the difference 

 in form of iron and hydrocarbons. Iron and car- 

 bon make a permanent magnet. Iron alone does 

 not. Hydrogen and carbon are directly attracted 

 by an electric current. Iron is not in any great 

 degree. In either steel or Hydrocarbon the same 

 carbon is a constituent. Then the difference lies 

 most probably between iron and hydrogen. Again, 

 most probably Hydrogen consists of five Primary 

 Spheres and they can hardly be in closest contact 

 in more than one way to be at all symmetrical. 

 (Ocular Demonstration.) This reasoning would 

 seem to indicate that magnetism holds the points 

 of long triangular Atoms together, while electricity 

 turns points outward. 



A compass needle will range itself parallel to an 

 electric current, always in relation to their polar- 

 ity; then it is evident that whatever makes the 

 needle point in a certain direction, that is also 

 supplied by an electric current. 



Then if the electric current make a different 

 result on hydrocarbons from what the normal uni- 

 versal current does, it must either be different in 

 its intrinsic nature or else it must differ in intensity 

 or direction or velocity. But it will work in any 

 direction. And it is not different naturally, for 

 both the normal current and an electric current 

 produce the same pointing in the same compass. 

 It must be then that electricity is different in veloc- 

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