Note 39 — Chapter II · The Progress of Electrical Theory.
Reading edition
On the subject of this Newtonian Rule of Philosophizing, see further Phil. Ind. Sc. B. xii. c. 13. I have given an account of the history and evidence of the Theory of Electricity in the Reports of the British Association for 1835. I may seem there to have spoken more favorably of the Theory as a Physical Theory than I have done here. This difference is principally due to a consideration of the present aspect of the Theory of Heat.