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and then ask what will they do when they are separated—why, the shell-lac is strongly repelled, as it was before, but the cap is strongly attractive; and yet if I bring them both together again, there is no attraction—it has all disappeared [the Fig. 34.experiment was repeated]. Those two bodies, therefore, still contain this attractive power: when they were parted, it was evident to your senses that they had it, though they do not attract when they are together.

This, then, is sufficient in the outset to give you an idea of the nature of the force which we call electricity. There is no end to the