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attraction. The links wanting to connect the radiant forces and the powers which pervade all material creation, regulating the disposition of particles and the forms of matter, seem to he near their developement ; and if the researches of modem science are pursued in the path to which the investigations of Faraday in particular have afforded tiie due, it is probable that more will be learnt of those secret powers which regulate the laws of creation.

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