The Magnetic Kingdom of Nature

feeling of gratitude. Stirred by this, I judged that I should not be satisfied with that mere exchange of letters alone. Instead, I determined to manifest to the whole literary world, through this present booklet on the triple Magnet, who and how great that ALEXANDER FABIANUS was. This was so that even from the work itself, that triple, indissoluble knot of magnetism—by which I have bound you to me, and you have so powerfully bound yourself to me—might stand as an immortal testament of the friendship, alliance, and love entered into between us.