Excerpt from Scientific Dialogues, Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People: In Which the First Principles of Natural and Experimental Philosophy Are Fully Explained; Of Electricity and Galvanism
You are surrounded, yet we have shown you that it is a fluid, and may be taken from any vessel, as cer tainly, though not with so much ease, as water may be poured from this glass. With the exercise of a small degree of patience, you shall see such experiments as will not fail to convince you that°there is as certainly a fluid, which is called the electric fluid, as there are such fluids as water and air.
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