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ing all the Properties of Electricity we are hitherto ac- 
quainted with, I gave the following as my Opinion. 
1. That what we call Electricity is the Effect of 
a very fubtil and elaftic Fluid, diffuled through- 
out all Bodies in Contact with the terraqueous 
Globe (thofe Subftances hitherto termed Electrics 
per fe probably excepted), and every-where, in its 
natural State of the lame Degree of Denfi ty. 
2 . That this Fluid manifefts itfelf only, when Bodies 
capable of receiving more thereof than their na- 
tural Quantity are properly difpofed for that Pur' 
pofe 5 and that then, by certain known Operations, 
its Effects fhew themfelves by attracting and repel- 
ling light Subftances, by a fnapping Noife, Sparks 
of Fire, &c. directed towards other Bodies, hav- 
ing only their natural Quantity, or, at leaft, a 
Quantity Ids than thofe Bodies from which thefe 
Snappings, <&c. proceed. 
3. That no Snapping is obferved in bringing any 
two Bodies near each other, in which the Elec- 
tricity is of the fame Denfity, but only in thofe 
Bodies in which the Denfity of this Fluid is 
unequal. 
4- That this Snapping is greater or lefs, in proportion* 
to the different Denlities of the Electricity in Bo- 
dies brought near each other, and by which Snap- 
ping each of them becomes of the fame Standard. 
5. That Glafs and other Bodies, which we call 
Electrics per fe , have the Property of taking this 
Fluid from one Body, and conveying it to another, 
and that in a Quantity fufficicnt to be obvious to 
all our Senfes. 
6 . That, in the Experiment in Queftion, the Rea- 
fon why no Snapping is obferved by a Perfon up- 
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