If we adopt the supposition, which seems most in accordance with facts, that there are in water two different elements occurring in distinct particles, the one called oxygen, the other hydrogen; and if, moreover, we suppose that these particles are perpetually changing places, and that each oxygen particle is sometimes linked with this hydrogen particle, sometimes with that, then it is obvious that the oxygen and the hydrogen in the water are in such a state that, if collected together separately, they would form liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen; and the effect of the electric twist is to give them those active image rotations, or strains, which make them take the gaseous form, and assume that peculiar relation to each other which exhibits itself so strikingly in combustion. With regard to magnetism, the same phenomenon of a particular state or disturbance of matter and its image state or disturbance is very strikingly obvious. For take the case of a magnet. By the influence of an electric current passing round it, it can be turned into a magnet with opposite poles. That is to say, the small particles of the iron have been so shifted that, whatever their disposition was in the first case, they have now the reverse disposition. If we suppose the small particles to be magnets like the whole magnet, and all to have their north poles pointing in one direction, then after the action of the current they have their north poles pointing in the opposite direction. But they have not turned in space, for, if they were to turn, each must turn about some axis. But if there was some axis then, with regard to this axis, the magnetic influence would have a definite relation; the turning of the particles would take place in a certain plane, and there would be a certain plane in the magnet which would have special properties. But a magnet is perfectly symmetrical in all its properties round its axis. The magnet which has had its poles reversed is, as an arrangement, the image of itself in its first condition. In the solid mass of iron which forms the magnet, by the action of electricity, a particular arrangement and its real image are alternately produced. There are some very important electrical phenomena which have been left out of consideration altogether—namely, the repulsions and attractions exercised by electrified bodies. Adopting the conceptions here laid down with regard to electricity—that the two kinds are in the relation of twist and image twist—we find that certain conclusions force themselves upon us. A positively electrified body attracts a negatively electrified body. A positively electrified body repels a positively electrified body. Or, as it is put in a shorter form, one kind of electricity attracts the opposite kind, and repels the same kind. Now, if our theory is true, a twist ought to attract its image twist, and repel a twist like itself.