Economists often like startling theorems results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time faith is not enough a police force is needed as well.
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
In the present state of our knowledge it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is however sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it and an essential property of matter?