electric properties which did not origi- 

 nally belong to it, he has been able to 

 control the ordinary operations of nature, 

 and to make potash pass through a strong 

 acid, ..without any attnbinatbn taking 

 place, That electricity is something, I 

 could never doubt* and therefore it fol- 

 lows as a consequence in my opinion, 

 that it must be every where connected with 

 those atoms of matter, which form the 

 masses that are cognizable to our senses; 

 and that it enters into the composition 

 of every thing, inanimate or animate. If- 

 then it be electricity that produces all 

 the chemical changes, we so constantly 

 observe, in surrounding inanimate objects,, 

 analogy induces us to believe that it is 

 electricity which also performs all the 

 chemical operations in living bodies ; that 

 the universal chemist resides ir* them, 

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