On the various forces of nature and their relations to each other

I want you to understand that this property of gravitation is never lost, that every substance possesses it, that there is never any change in the quantity of it; and, first of...

Now, observe this: here is a piece of wire which I am about to make into a bridge of force--that is to say, a communicator between the two ends of the battery. It is copper wire...

Here is the water which we have produced by destroying some of the attraction which existed between the particles of the ice,--for below a certain temperature the particles of w...

How can we make this attraction of the particles a little more simple? There are many things which if brought together properly will shew this attraction. Here is a boy’s experi...

We shall have to pay a little more attention to the forces existing in water before we can have a clear idea on the subject. Besides the attraction which there is between its pa...

To-day we come to a kind of attraction even more curious than the last, namely, the attraction which we find to be of a double nature--of a curious and dual nature. And I want f...

Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or of force without matter. When God create...

You may ask, what is the use of this bright light? It would not be useful to us, were it not for the constant changes which are taking place in the atmosphere, which is never pu...

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We have frequently seen, during the course of these lectures, that one of those powers or forces of matter, of which I have written the names on that board, has produced results...

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