The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-07
On Seeing Things.

SAS RNDN ~ SNSAA1SS ny I
should see every part of their
farm as often as practicable; their
fields, fences, crops, stoek--see
their horses, cattle, sheep and
hogs-see their tools and imple-
ments, and whatever occurs
around them.
| The most important sense de
pending on special organs is that |
of sight. "Eyes they have, but
see not, J" may be truly said of the |
majority of our race. Millions
upon millions had seen the steam
OF the pot or kettle as it was boil
ing over the fire, in its effort to es-
cape had seen itshakingand lifting
the cover that confined it. Watt
saw it too, and he saw more than
these millions. He saw a young
Hercules in the escaping vapor.
He saw in it that giant of ftre-
mendous power-the steam en-
CINE; a force which might be har-
messed to human industry far
greater than thousands Of human
muscles could exert; force ade-
quate to rend rocks asunder, and
= make old earth quake and trem-
bic.
Newton sat in his garden and
saw an apple fall from tree.
Millions upon millions had seen
the same thing before, but New
ton saw far more than the millions.
He saw in it a law of universal
nature. He inquired what caused
the apple to fall, and found that
that very cause, that attractive
force which is the property of all
matter, rolls the earth on it's axis
| and impells it around the SUM-
He thought, but the millions did
: not think. Before the days of
Newton, millions had seen the
! morning peep her blue eyes in the
} East, and the rising sun fling
! around him arrows of light,
which rending the pail Ger the universe
spread
Wake nature in beauty and bloom from the
! DEAD ,
But the millions never thought of
, catching those arrows of light
and Analysing them, or inquiring
why they make grassappear green,
i. or the skies blue. But Newton
) found out. He 0utwitted all the
} shining robe of day. and made
!: known the texture of the magic
) garment which the God of nature
I has kindly spread over the surface
r of the visible world. 81.
Millions upon millions had
r seen the red forked lightnings
e shoot athwart the skies, and the
: loud reverberating thunders roll
till the earth tFembled and shook
like an aspen leaf. But none OF
these millions had thought oil
g e catching these thunderbolts, and
= making plaything of the light
nings; of bottling them up in
\
u sport, and charming them into
obedience to our high behests
: till our own Franklin set the ex
! ample. And none had thought O
= Harvesting them up and making
! them our post horses, till Morse
. contrived the harness and hat
| them doing service,
- None but the geologist looks
: upon the sands and the rocks o
y old earth with an educated eve
:, but every pebble by the way-sid,
= talks to him. 1t tells him of uh,
= : formation Of our globe, and tn,
- arrangement of its diferentstrata
= the commissions it has received
: and the shocks and humiliation
e it has undergone. threads to hin
i history Of that remote perioC
! when no flowers grew nor animal
- roamed on our globe; when II,
y vegetation clothed the fields @
- earth, and no animated being tro,
~ It's benighted dust. He finds
= "Sermons in the stones books in the rrr
~ ming brooks,
And good in everything"
t. So none but the botanist see
k, the plants, the flowers, and tn
II, trees which are around us. A
to least he sees more in them tha,
t? Others see; they speak volumes t
m him while to others they do nc
We utter Single word.
le A great deal may be learne
ut from the humblest plant tina
is springs up in our pathway. T
II! "a blade of grass is no great thing,
10. Yet in it we do find
The wlsdomof the Eternal KIM,
u Fulfilling his design
. -iJouTaGtof agriculture.
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