"If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity,……" — Henry Brooks Adams
"If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, asa mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of theenergies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to provethe most fatal to Professors ofHistory."
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