Ideas on the Affirmative Principle of Life and the Negative Principle of Death

[recepti]bility must be brought into coexistence through the connection.

Experiences strengthened my belief in the truth of the above principles; for as soon as I placed the elastic, string-like light-essence original: "elastisch: saitenartige Lichtwesen." This suggests a view of light as a vibrating, physical filament or fluid. upon a glass, it became attractive, and as soon as carbon was added, it became electric.

As soon as a mixture of carbon is scattered upon the glass, all electrical effects cease, because carbon does not act upon carbon, but must instead be excited by light-matter original: "Lichtmaterie.".

I observed that increased or decreased excitability original: "Erregbarkeit." is always grounded in the communication of a gaseous substance original: "gasförmigen Stoffes.", and this gaseous substance always alters the structure of the objects being electrified or set in motion, according to the laws of expansion, attraction, or re-expansion.

All these experiences allowed me to conclude with good reason that sensibility original: "Sensibilität." In 18th-century science, this referred to the inherent capacity of matter or organisms to respond to external stimuli. in the veg- The word is cut off, likely "vegetative" or "vegetable" kingdom.