Excerpt from The History and Present State of Electricity, Vol. 1: With Original Experiments Not that I think philofophical difcoveries are now at a fiand. On the other hand, as quick advances feem to have been made of late years, as in any equal period of time pafi whatever.' Nay, it appears to me, that the progrefs is really accelerated. But the increafe of knowledge is like the increafe of a city. The building of fome of the firfl fireets makes a great figure, is much talked, of, and known to every body; whereas the addition of, perhaps, twice as much build-l. Ing, after it has been fwelled to a confider able (he, is not (0 much as taken notice of. 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.