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— Jacques Ellul"Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one."
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The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood of the electric or magnetic bodies, and it may be called a Dynamical Theory, because it assumes that in the space there is matter in motion, by which the observed electromagnetic phenomena are produced.
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