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operations. That electricity is the great 

 chemist both in organized and unorga- 

 nized bodies, will be generally credited ; 

 and that the power which combines may 

 also prevent decomposition is too obvious 

 to need discussion. That electricity is 

 capable of augmenting and diminishing 

 the temperature of unorganized matter 

 is well known. Does not Platina wire 

 drop like wax in fusion when it inter- 

 venes between the different ends of the 

 voltaic battery ? and do not the spherules 

 of rain fall to the ground at midsummer 

 as firmly frozen as in the depth of 

 winter, when they pass through a stratum 

 of air refrigerated by electrical operations? 



I believe I need say no more on these 



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 subjects. 



The varying and the strong retention of 

 life by seeds, and some kinds of vege- 

 tables and animals, are facts which seem 



