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Surely, I thought, here is a case in which the Professor must have thrown down the Review when he came to these words: but when I came to the end, I found that it was not the Review, but the pen, which must have been thrown down, for the article is signed T. Huxley. Can there be a more conclusive proof that there are a vast variety of facts out side of magnetism and electricity, connected by an under lying idea, which inevitably suggests analogy to them, and which can be most conveniently expressed by the word polarity Words after all are only coins to facili tate the interchange of ideas, and the best word is that which serves the purpose most clearly and concisely. Thus instead of using a waggon load of copper, or the verbiage of a conveyancer's deed, to express the ideas comprised in such words as theism, pantheism, or agnosticism, we coin them for general use, as Huxley did the word agnosticism, in order to convey our meaning.

Polarity is such a word. It sums up what Emer son says in his Essay on Compensation Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of Nature in darkness and light; in the ebb and flow of waters in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals in the undulations of fluids and of sound; in the centripetal and centrifugal gravity; in electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity. Super induce Magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite Magnetism takes place at the other end. If the South attracts, the North repels. An inevitable dualism besets nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another to make it whole: as Spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.

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