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Hammering Sheet Metal:
"Because the atoms and the molecules are subvisible in magnitude to man, he fails to detect the exquisite geometrical orderliness with which they yield to rearrangement while retaining the total interattractiveness occasioned by their initial aggregation with in the critical limits of mass-attraction where the attractive force overcomes the individual orbiting integrity. The relative interattraction increases as the second power of the rate at which the interdistances diminish.
“The atomic proximity within the metals is of such a high order as to give high tensile strength, which is resistance to being pulled or put asunder. Exquisite magnitudes of interattractive proximities have nothing to do with pressure. (The error of reflexing is here comparable to humans’ misapprehending the wind’s ‘blowing’ when we know that it cannot blow; it can only be sucked.) Man is always thinking he can push things when they can only be pulled.” Men are pushers. Women are attracters."
