4. This fluid acts upon inert bodies; yet it shuns contact with certain substances, such as glass.
5. It lifts the parts toward which it moves, or in which it accumulates.
6. It further acts upon inert bodies by attraction or by repulsion, with a tendency to either join or separate the inert body and the organism.
7. It can also determine interior movements in matter, and give rise to noises.
8. This fluid is especially produced and developed by turning, and by the will, and by the joining of hands in a certain manner.
9. It is communicated from one person to another by vicinage or by contact. Yet certain persons impede its communication.
10. We have no knowledge of special movements of the fluid, which are determined by the will.
11. This fluid is probably identical with the nervous fluid and with the nervo-magnetic fluid.
Application.—Rotation is a resultant of the action of the fluid and of the resistances of the wood.
Tipping results from the accumulation of the fluid in the leg of the table which is lifted.