[ no J 
be lefs aftonilhing in confequenee of the 
information we are now in pofleffion of. 
We know that the fluid, which has hi¬ 
therto been called the nervous fluid, by 
means of which all the movements and 
functions of the animal economy are ex¬ 
ecuted, is eledtricity itfelf, and that animals 
may receive it from the earth and from the 
atmofphere. I do not fpeak of the other 
means which nature employs for the pre- 
fervation of thefe beings, becaufe the fub- 
jedt would be foreign to my prefent work. 
SfcGTION 
