The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 214
ever since they have known of its existence. As it will passfrom one substance to another, or flow through suitable conductors, it has been thought to bea fluid—exquisitely thin and subtle, … Fig. 1. or at least wehave reasonablegrounds for be-lieving, that itexists in everyconceivable formof matter; butthough it is allaround us, andwithin us, wehave penetratedbut a very littleway into its se-crets. Of its lawswe know some-thing ; of its pur-pose or office in creation we may permit…
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