Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation, on the Animating Principle, or Anima Mundi: How Afforded, and How Acting in Man; And How Acted Upon in That Disease Commonly Denominated, Tetanus or Lock-Jaw The univerfe is an immenfe body of or 'ganized and animated matter. Its anima ting principle is a certain fubtile and effen tial fluid, which pervades every particle of'matter; and which, by the degree of its'diflribution and manner of combination, forms the infinite variety that we obferve in nature. This fluid, whatever arbitrary name it may have, whether [lg/ii when vi brating in the air, fire in the chimney, izeaz' when excited by fric'tion, elefirz'cz'ty vyhen colleéted from the atmofphere, phlo gz'flm In metals, the magnetzc/r fluzd In the load fione, or the flerfuourfizzzd In animals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.