Memoir on the Discovery

several centuries, only to become the domain of a few private individuals.

Nature has perfectly provided for everything regarding the existence of the individual; generation The biological process of reproduction and beginnings of life occurs without a system, just as it does without artifice. How could the preservation of life be deprived of the same advantage? The preservation of animals is a proof to the contrary.

A non-magnetized needle, when set in motion, will only return to a specific direction by chance; whereas, on the contrary, a needle that is magnetized—having received the same impulse—will, after various oscillations proportioned to the impulse and the magnetism magnetism: here referring to the invisible force or "fluid" the author believes governs health it has received, find its original position again and fix itself there. It is in this way that the harmony of organized bodies, once disturbed, must experience the uncertainties of my first supposition, if it is not recalled and determined—