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1 II | power with respect to the distance that bodies are apart. If 2 II | If I hold it at a greater distance off, they attract with less 3 II | if I hold it at a greater distance still, their attraction 4 II | attraction at this overwhelming distance. Now I want you clearly 5 II | inversely as the square of the distance - a sad jumble of words 6 II | the "inverse square of the distance."~I have here a lamp, A, 7 II | the "inverse square of the distance." This distance, A E, is 8 II | square of the distance." This distance, A E, is one, and that distance, 9 II | distance, A E, is one, and that distance, A B is two, but that size 10 II | which is the square of the distance, and, if I put the screen 11 II | screen at one-third of the distance from the lamp, the shadow 12 II | inverse of the square of the distance. This screen E is the brightest 13 II | inversely as the square of the distance. Now if you can not perfectly 14 II | proportion to the square of the distance you are off the wall; and 15 II | light shines on you at one distance, and how much at another, 16 II | according to the square of the distance, inversely. I want you to 17 II | so); that attracts at a distance; and in order to make our 18 III| which it is composed at a distance the one from the other,