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6 ther it will reach all Electrical Bodies; and it eems to me, that the reaon why he rejects the way of explicating Attraction by the Emiion of the finer parts of the attrahent (to which Hypotheis, if it be rightly propoed, I confes my elf very inclinable) is grounded upon a mitake, which, though a Philoopher may, for want of Experience in that Particular, without diparagement fall into, is nevertheless a mitake. For whereas our excellent Author ays, that Electrical Effluvia, uch as are uppoed to be emitted by Amber, Wax, &c. cannot be imagin'd to proceed from Glas, I grant the Suppoition to be plauible, but cannot allow it to be true. For as olid a body as Glas is, yet if you but dextrouly rub for two or three minutes a couple of pieces of Glas againt one another, you will find that Glas is not onely capable of emitting Effluvia, but uch ones as to be odorous, and ometimes to be rankly tinking. But