The First Objection they make is, That I have called Silk, Wax, _&c._ which do not ordinarily convey the electrical Power to other Bodies, non-electricable, or non-electrical; when other Writers have long since agreed to call them Electrics _per se_. The Second Objection is, That what I have advanced, to prove that the Power of Electricity proceeds not from the _Apparatus_, but from the Air, seems to be overthrown; because, since I wrote my Book, there has been a new Experiment made, by placing the whole _Apparatus_ on Wax, and also the Persons concerned in the Experiment, and by that means the Power is intercepted. The Third Objection is, That so large a Quantity of Iron, as I have supposed to be electrify’d, will not give greater Force, when touch’d by a Person unelectrify’d, than a smaller one will. In Answer to the First Objection; I cannot think, that the Term Electric _per se_ is suited to any Material whatever; unless some One was found out which would attract to it, of its own accord, any other Material; as we find a Loadstone will do, when placed near any thing in its Reach: but, if you lay even Amber unrubb’d in Contact with Straws, or any other Things, they will not be attracted to it. So that Friction, it is plain, collects this Power to the Amber. The Term Electric _per se_ seems to me to be used by these Gentlemen for the same Purposes as the old Term of _Occult Quality_ was. As the Word Electricity arises from Amber, I need not instance in any other Material; nor need I give again my Reasons, why certain Things are non-electricable. But, for clearing One Point, in which I am not rightly apprehended; I have said, That if Fire be the Cause of Life and Increase in any thing which stands in a State of Nature, then, whatever ceases to be in a State of Life or Increase, must have its Fire withdrawn, and it becomes a _Caput Mortuum_.—I have been told, This is not true; for a dead Animal will be electrify’d. This I complain of, as not having been understood concerning it. This Animal, though kill’d, had once its animal Increase from Fire. Boards, when dry, have Fire in them; because the Fire, which invigorated the Tree they were saw’d out of, must naturally remain in them. The like may be said of a dead Animal; but Wax, Pitch, Resin, and the Tribe of Non-electricables, never had their Existence from Nature only; and therefore they are quite of a different Tribe. For what I say is, That whatever had once Fire in it is capable of being electrify’d. Those called Electrics _per se_, having no Fire in them, when, by Friction, Fire is collected on their Surfaces, it is either driven from thence into the Air, or into some Electricable, and so it joins with that Fire which naturally belongs to it.