The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 214
e 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 ourselves to conjecture… … but still a fluid %bearing, perhaps,the same relationto the highly rare-fied ether whichis said to fill allspace, as that doesto the ponderablefluid, water. Somereject the fluidtheory, and ac-count for itstransmission onthe undulatory orwave principle, anotion derivedfrom awell-knownfact concerning…
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