Lecture

 1 I  |          abilities to do things, or powers, that are so common that
 2 I  |         commoner than the wonderful powers by which we are enabled
 3 I  |       acquainted with some of these powers: not the vital ones, but
 4 I  |           and what we call physical powers; and, in the outset, what
 5 I  |             it is by means of these powers conjointly (for there are
 6 I  |   conjointly (for there are several powers here employed) that I pull
 7 I  |          are so very many different powers; on the contrary, it is
 8 I  |            to think how few are the powers by which all the phenomena
 9 I  |             there are certain other powers (not many) in the various
10 I  |        proceed to distinguish these powers one from the other, and
11 I  |       matter, subject to a very few powers; and all disposed in this
12 I  |            with examples of all the powers to which I shall have to
13 I  |   understand by the words forces or powers.~ ~I have spoken of water,
14 II |         bend the light with varying powers. We will now let the light
15 III|         volume by heat - the mighty powers of steam and the tremendous
16 IV |             imperfect notion of the powers and effects of this affinity.
17 V  |           atmosphere. Now all these powers we find in it as if they
18 V  |        cotton. So you see that some powers are transferable, and others
19 V  |           the manner in which these powers are transferred from one
20 V  |            see in what manner these powers travel from place to place.
21 V  |         utterly unattainable by the powers we have spoken of on previous
22 V  | consideration of these transferable powers.~~
23 VI |         lectures, that one of those powers or forces of matter, of
24 VI |         instance in which these two powers are related. But we have
25 VI |           each other, and how these powers may be changed one into
26 VI |           all the other effects and powers of burning zinc. I have