 We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it ? Whither goes it ? Science has done much for us ; but it is a poor...  General Sketch of the History of Pantheism - Page 318by Constance E. Plumptre - 1879Full view - About this book
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