"We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud……" — Thomas Carlyle
"We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?"
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Thomas Carlyle
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