things from which you can evolve this power. When you go home, take a stick of sealing-wax—I have rather a large stick, but a smaller one will do—and make an indicator of this sort (fig. 35). Take a watch-glass (or your watch itself will do; you only want something which Fig. 35.shall have a round face), and now, if you place a piece of flat glass upon that, you have a very easily moved centre. And if I take this lath and put it on the flat glass (you see I am searching for the centre of gravity of this lath—I want to balance it upon the watch-glass), it is very easily moved round; and if I take this piece of sealing-wax and rub it against my coat, and then try whether it is attractive [holding it near the lath], you see how strong the attraction is; I can even draw it about. Here, then, you have a very beautiful indicator, for I have, with a
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