"We have now arrived at the great discovery of Örsted of the connection between electricity and magnetism, Örsted found that an electric current acts on a magnetic pole, but that it neither attracts nor repels it, but causes it to move round the current. He expressed this by saying that "the electric conflict acts in a revolving manner." The most obvious deduction from this new fact was that the action of the current on the magnet is not a push-and-pull force, but a rotary force, and accordingly many minds were set a-speculating on vortices and streams of æther whirling round the current."