Show what Is electricity if the question is ia now asked wh 11 is electricity we may reply advant aarant i of jokai A thing of A goesl genously r in the words which we wd know a little more than not liing i and a little less than so something ethin I 1 A I 1 A little more than nothing for we I 1 kni m that it is of the nature of light and he r extending itself like them in waves motions motion A lit little tle less than comet for far of the dimco essence of electricity its whether static or dynamic we are e s ill 11 absolutely in the dark there has b en no want of other theories but the f ft n da mental tendency of the age is to i aduce all phenomena and forces to t 1 is ie fewest possible primaries and it is nf n I 1 t improbable that this will bo be fa facilitated cilita by tho the wave wava theory of the so BO called ether tho the problem of gravitation too which was so 60 long iong regarded as a force acting from a distance is ia now equally attributed to tho agency of a medium in indis his to demonstrate the oneness of au all natural forces the physicist is not likely to be led astray even although the cognition of force presents one of thoss those world problems the solution of which must forever escape us aye although as the final result of the most exact investigation vesti gation it should forever be denied to him even to assert decisively it is ia i only a force and the ether is ia its medium of ion exchange |