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1 I | elementary, and what we call physical powers; and, in 2 I | of those things which we call power, or force; and you 3 I | sort of matter which we call water - it is there ice [ 4 I | down. That power is what we call gravity, and you see there [ 5 I | balance. Here I have what we call a weight [an iron half cwt.] - 6 I | until it arrived at what we call the centre of gravity of 7 I | centred, and that point they call the centre of gravity; it 8 I | earth by this force which we call gravity. By observation, 9 II | occasion (through I did not call it so); that attracts at 10 II | cubical - it is what we call a rhomboid. It still breaks 11 II | first to make it what we call polarized; but about that 12 III| illustration (as philosophers we call it all water, even though 13 III| is a substance which we call iodine, and I am about to 14 III| that bodies in what we call the vaporous or the gaseous 15 III| important is that force which we call voltaic electricity, which 16 III| of permanent gas, as we call it, and then we can reconvert 17 III| hydrogen; and the other we call oxygen - that gas which 18 III| and this new attraction we call chemical affinity, or the 19 III| illustrate the force, if I may so call it, of oxygen. I have here 20 IV | consideration I would rather call it, of chemical affinity. 21 IV | see how curiously what we call combustion acts with respect 22 V | silk covered with what we call amalgam, look at the attraction 23 V | nature of the force which we call Electricity. There is no 24 VI | behind me. I am using what we call a Grove's voltaic battery, 25 VI | chemical affinity; that if we call the power which is evolved