Before revision: – and were continuing to "confuse" the "properties" of his (abstract/theoretical) " Magnétisime animal" with those of an actual physical magnet (l'aimant): objects of which, he stressed, he had only ever spoken of as possible "conductors" of "animal magnetism".
After revision: – and were continuing to "confuse" the "properties" of his (abstract/theoretical) " Magnétisme animal" with those of an actual physical magnet (l'aimant): objects of which, he stressed, he had only ever spoken of as possible "conductors" of "animal magnetism".