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	"Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain
	 Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act
	 at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light
	 for reflecting, refracting and inflecting them,
	 but also upon one another for producing a great
	 Part of the Phaenomena of Nature?  For it's well
	 known, that Bodies act upon one another by the
	 Attractions of Gravity, Magnetism and Electricity;
	 and these instances shew the Tenor and Course of
	 Nature, and make it not improbable that there may
	 be more attractive Powers than these...

	"The Attractions of Gravity, Magnetism, and Electricity,
	 reach to very sensible distances, and so have been
	 observed by vulgar Eyes, and there may be others
	 which reach to so small distances as hitherto escape
	 Observation...

	"Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by
	 the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles
	 of weaker Virtue; and many of these may cohere and
	 compose bigger Particles whose Virtue is still weaker,
	 and so on for diverse Successions, until the Progression
	 end in the biggest Particles on which the Operations in
	 Chemistry, and the Colours of natural Bodies depend, and
	 which by cohering compose Bodies of a sensible Magnitude."

[Isaac Newton, Opticks, Book Three, Part I, Question 31; London 1717]