Note 44 — Chapter IV · SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES: SECOND PERIOD.
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The term induction appears to have been originally used, in contradistinction to contact or conduction, to connote those effects which apparently are in the class of actions at a distance. Thus we may have induction of a charge by a charge, or of a magnet-pole by a magnet-pole. To these Faraday had added the induction of a current by a current, and the induction of a current by a moving magnet. Amid such varying adaptations of the word induction, there is much gain in allotting to the electrostatic induction of charges by charges the distinguishing name of influence, as suggested by Priestley.