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V. That there is no Difference (at lead I could ne* 
ver find it) between the Force or Strength of Attrac- 
tion and that of Repulfion in the fame Pole of any 
Loadftone or Mrignet, unlefs when a Tmall one ap- 
proaches fo near to a large one, as to have its Polarity 
more or lefs diminifhed thereby. 
The preceding Properties convince me, that there is 
no fuch thing in Nature as magnetical Attradion with- 
out Polarity, which is conftituted of Attraftion and 
Repulfion ; and thefe two Powers being always equally 
ftrong in the fame Pole of every Magnet, I take it to 
be a plain Contradidon, to fay this or that Load-- 
done has a ftrong Attradion, but a weak Polarity 
or Diredion,’^^ 
VI. That no interpofed Body whatfoever (unlefs it 
is magnetical) though the mod folid in Nature, was • 
ever known in the lead to impede or divert any of the 
Effeds of a Magnet j but it is always found to attrad 
magnetical Bodies full fo powerfully at the fame Di- • 
dance, as if nothing at all was between. 
VII. That every Frudum of a Loaddone is an en- 
tire or perfed Loaddone, having in itfelf both Poles as 
the whole Stone had ; and that the Poles in each Fru- 
dum have their Diredion (as near as the Figure of it 
will admit) in the fame parallel Line wherein they 
were direded both in it and the whole Stone, before it 
was feparated therefrom: For the Polarity of every 
Fragment is ufually, if not always (before they are 
feparated) parallel to that of the whole Stone, and 
confequCntly to that of each other : And if ever it is 
found otherwife, I cannot but think that Loaddone 
wants of Pcrfedion. 
Let 
