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"The causes of the ocean's swell seem to be the bodies of the sun and moon which attract the waters of the sea by a certain force similar to magnetism. The body of the earth also attracts its own waters unto itself, by a force which we call gravity. Why, therefore, should we not say the earth also attracts the waters of the moon as the moon attracts terrestrial waters?"