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away at once; but the “attraction ” existing between positive and 
negative bodies is so great that the charge is retained till it bursts 
its bonds in the manner described. 
I do not think I need say much as to the way in which the 
hydrogen passes over to the kathode. It is very }vell, so far as I 
can see, described in the text-books. As I have already said, the 
ions of the whole electrolyte are on the point of dissociation before 
any but a small quantity of current passes, for as H grows more 
positive O becomes more negative, untii 0 itself begins to absorb 
the current, then the hydrogen of the layer next the anode is 
repelled in direction of the kathode, and coming in contact with 
that of the next layer, transfers some of its electricity to it, which 
has the effect of divorcing the hydrogen of the second layer from 
its oxygen, the hydrogen of the first taking its place, the H of 
the second displacing that of the third, and so on, in the manner 
described in the text-books, till the kathode is reached.* 
The foregoing is, I am aware, but a crude explanation, but as I 
have more than once hinted, I am only a novice in electrical 
matters ; all I claim is that by much thought I have gained a 
little insight into the properties of the atom which I, myself, was 
the first to conceive, so far as I am aware, and which I believe to 
be the true atom of nature, and I have done my best to explain 
this particular portion of electrical science in accordance with the 
properties which, I believe, attach to this particular atom. 
33. Conduction and Resistance. 
One of the greatest difficulties in the construction of this 
theory was to account in a tolerably feasible way for the 
enormous differences of the conducting-powers for heat and 
electricity of different bodies. Heat being caused, as we have 
seen, by a periodical condensation and dilatation of the particles 
of which the atoms are composed, with a consequent quickening 
and slowing down of their motion ; and electricity also, though in 
a different way, being caused (one kind of it) through a 
* Compounds would be dissociated by heat in much the same way, the 
bonds of the positive body being the first to fill up, and the charges of the 
components would be neutralised by the surrounding neutral bodies. 
