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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the
consideration of my readers.'[1]
Faraday does not see the same difficulty in his contiguous particles.
And yet, by transferring the conception from masses to particles,
we simply lessen size and distance, but we do not alter the quality
of the conception. Whatever difficulty the mind experiences in
conceiving of action at sensible distances, besets it also when it
attempts to conceive of action at insensible distances. Still the
investigation of the point whether electric and magnetic effects
were wrought out through the intervention of contiguous particles or
not, had a physical interest altogether apart from the metaphysical
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