Electrical-psychology or the electrical philosophy of mental impressions / from the works of J.B. Dods and J.S. Grimes ; revised and edited by H.G. Darling.

  • John Bovee Dods
Date:
1851
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Credit: Electrical-psychology or the electrical philosophy of mental impressions / from the works of J.B. Dods and J.S. Grimes ; revised and edited by H.G. Darling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    however, that heat is no element at all, any more than cold. It is merely an effect of substances in motion, produced by their friction. Though the ancients sup- posed there to be but four elements, yet as the science of chemistry advances onward toward perfection, more elements are detected. More than fifty have been already discovered, yet we have no reason to believe that even these are all. Suppose, however, that there are one hundred elements belonging to this globe. Then there are one hundred elements in electricity, out of which this globe was created. We will step back in our imaginations to that period when this globe, as such, had no existence. For the sake of perspicuity, we will suppose one hundred cords to be fastened on those one hundred elements in electricity. Now, as the Eternal Mind can come in direct con- tact with electricity only, so he exerted his voluntary powers that constitute his creative energy, and con- densed those one hundred elements that constitute electricity, down to a more gross and dense state, each element sliding down its own cord in its progress toward creation. Though mind can directly touch nothing but electricity, yet electricity, as the universal agent, under Deity, can touch all substances in being. The Creator again acts, through another volume of electricity, upon those one hundred partially condensed elements, and moves them down a grade farther onward toward their ultimate or created state. And thus the work pro- gresses ; wave successively following wave down its own cord, till they all become air. Hence air contains the one hundred elements; and all the chemical pro-
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