"It being assumed as the basis for this New View that Electricity is the only element in nature which has weight, we have immediately to notice certain consequences of the assumption which are inevitable... 3. The attraction of common matter for electricity cannot be the cause of gravitation, because bodies gravitate when neither electrically plus nor minus; in which neutral state, owing to the definite nature of electrical attraction, the electricity of no one body attracts the common matter of any other body. 4. On a supposition that particles, or atoms, of electricity attract one another, instead of being mutually repulsive, as is taught by preceding theories, then the quantity of electricity in each chemical atom acting on the universal electricity would confer on all chemical atoms gravitating forces represented by their respective equivalent numbers."