magnetic
action. Whatever name be given to it, and however it comes about, there
is no good reason for calling any kind of ether action electrical.

Electric action, like magnetic action, begins and ends in matter. It is
subject to transformations into thermal and mechanical actions, also
into ether stress--right-handed or left-handed--which, in turn, can
similarly affect other matter, but with opposite polarities.

In his _Modern Views of Electricity_, Prof. O. J. Lodge warns us, quite
rightly, that perhaps, after all, there is no such _thing_ as
electricity--that electrification and electric energy may be terms to be
kept for convenience; but if electricity as a term be held to imply a
force, a fluid, an imponderable, or a thing which could be described by
some one who knew enough, then it has no degree of probability, for
spinning atomic magnets seem capable of developing all the electrical
phenomena we meet. It must be thought of as a _condition_ and not as an
entity.

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