[39]. The reciprocal cancelling of opposite motions.
[40]. Or the object is seen in the first stage of becoming, or of transition from difference to indifference. The phenomena of magnetism even serve, so to speak, as an impulse, to transport us to the standpoint beyond the product, which is necessary in order to the construction of the product.
[41]. There will result the opposite effect—a negative attraction, that is, repulsion. Repulsion and attraction stand to each other as positive and negative magnitudes. Repulsion is only negative attraction—attraction only negative repulsion; as soon, therefore, as the maximum of attraction is reached, it passes over into its opposite—into repulsion.
[42]. If we designate the factors as + and - electricity, then, in the second stage, + electricity had a relative preponderance over - electricity.
[43]. If no longer the individual factors of the two products, but the whole products themselves are absolutely opposed to each other.
[44]. For product is something wherein antithesis cancels itself, but it cancels itself only through indifference of gravity. When, therefore, two products are opposed to each other, the indifference in each individually must be absolutely cancelled, and the whole products must gravitate towards each other.
[45]. In the electric process, the whole product is not active, but only the one factor of the product, which has the relative preponderance over the other. In the chemical process in which the whole product is active, it follows that the indifference of the whole product must be cancelled.
[46]. We have therefore the following scheme of the dynamical process:
First stage: Unity of the product—magnetism.
Second stage: Duplicity of the products—electricity.