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82. In one of Faraday’s experiments, a circuit was completed 
by subjecting platinum points, severally proceeding from the poles 
a voltaic series, while very near to each other, to the flame of 
a spirit lamp. ‘This was ascribed by him to the rarefaction of 
the air, but ought, as I think, to be sitibited to the polarizable 
ethereo-ponderable matter of the flame, performing the same of- 
fice as the volatilized carbon in the flaming ah, between we ve 
coal points, to which reference has been made. 
Summary. SNe the facts and reasoning which have feat 
above stated, it is presumed that the following deductions may 
be considered as highly probable, if not altogether susceptible of 
demonstration. 
The theories of Franklin, Dufay and Ampere, are irreconcila- 
ble with the premises on which they are founded, and with facts 
on . sides admitted. 
arge of frictional electricity, or that species of electric ex- 
aa which is produced by friction, is not due to any accu- 
mulation, nor to any deficiency either of one or of two fluids, but 
to the opposite seleriice induced m imponderable ethereal matter 
existing throughout space however otherwise void, and likewise 
condensed more or less within ponderable bodies, so as to enter 
into combination with their particles, forming atoms which may 
be designated as ethereo-ponderable. 
Frictional charges of electricity seek the surfaces. of bodies to 
which they may be imparted, without —— affecting the ethe- 
reo-ponderable matter of which they consist. 
When surfaces thus oppositely charged, or, in other words, 
having about them oppositely polarized ethereal atmospheres, are 
made to communicate, no current takes place, nor any transfer of 
the polarized matter: yet any conductor touching both atmos- 
pheres, furnishes a channel through which the opposite polarities 
are reciprocally neutralized by bemg communicated wave-like to 
an intermediate point 
_Galvano-electric discharges are likewise effected by waves of 
opposite eno, without any flow of matter meriting to be 
called a current. 
Thigh waves are not propagated superficially through Bess 
purely ethereal medium; they oecur in masses 
the ethereal and ponderable matter. If the generation of fie: 
tional electricity, sufficient to influence the gold leaf electrometer, 
Gare that there are some purely ethereal waves caused by 
alvano-electric reactio on, such waves arise from the inductive in- 
fluence of those ereated | in the ethereo-ponderable matter. 
_ When the age ted of a frictional discharge is increased reas 
re the same, its become 
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