A History of Electricity (The Intellectual Rise in Electricity) From Antiquity to the Days of Benjamin Franklin, By Park Benjamin
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As Boyle, with all his ingenuity, could make nothing of the problem, he took refuge in the decrepit mediaeval theory that the occurrence was due to the "effects of un- heeded and, as it were, fortuitous causes," which, of course, as an explanation, is exceeded in logical absurdity only by that which attempts to elucidate an unknown matter by giving an entirely new name to it. One is apt to wonder why he did not attack the difficulty with something of the same enthusiasm and experimental skill w...hich he brought to bear upon his chemical researches. Perhaps the reason 424 THE INTELLECTUAI, RISE IN ELECTRICITY. is that, what with chemistry and pneumatics, and especi- ally theology, he had abundant work to exhaust his ener- gies. If it were not plain that he took a genuine pleasure in sermonizing, and often in evolving homilies concerning the most trivial topics ("on the paring of a summer apple;" "on drinking water out of the brim of his hat;" "on his horse stumbling," savagely burlesqued by Dean Swift in "Pious Meditations on a Broomstick"), we might be tempted to regard such efforts as misdirected.
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