"The more sluggish positive charges are at first of less interest,—but the behaviour of electrons cannot be fully and properly understood without a knowledge of the nature and properties of the positive constituent too. According to Larmor, positive charge must be the mirror-image of negative charge, in essential constitution. The positive electron has not, as far as I know, been as yet observed free. Some think it cannot exist in a free state, that it is in fact the rest of the atom of matter from which a negative unit charge has been removed; or, to put it crudely, that "electricity" repels "electricity," and "matter" repels "matter," but that Electricity and Matter in combination form a neutral substance which is the atom of matter as we know it. Such a statement is an extraordinary and striking return to the views expressed by that great genius, Benjamin Franklin."
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Sir Oliver Lodge, Electrons: Or, The Nature and Properties of Negative Electricity (1907) p. 203
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