Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-12-07

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aumsse Of thA Nsvsl lns1sss Rssi@ss
eas tbs foIloxinS !eloqaep passase upss
the ikwY 81 nature, which are but Tie
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vhe Nil sbsiags 1oNns1nrsuaieht IN
eanaqt eprsy, nd i a rapsasid. knows
bow to ind bis fellow-la6orers. Water
WORKS IN S1asses. SetsS his irfe sistibie
skeusdss - yshf nAiltor tosyour SHIPS,
eetssspssl,z1ankh euaams Al ruck Seat-
Y pssksd y Dc ieeherg 4ioQ0 niles.
talent d 6eeominf iiiile, Ia 1ntsrin5
the smsIsesg helts ing fores.s BY sals
agsney. carrying in solunea slemenau
needfal 70 every. point, the vegetable
wosld exists. Who are the farme.'.
servants Who but geology, chemis-
try, the quarry Of the air, The wsfer Of
the brook, the lightning Of the cloud, the
plow Of the frosti Before he was born
into the field. the sun Of ages soaked j,
with light and heat. mellowed bis land,
decomposed the rocks, covered il with
vegetable film. then With forests, and
accumulated cubic acres of sphsgnum
whose decays make the peat Of his mea-
dow. The rocks crack like glass by in
equality OF contraction in heat and cold,
and fakes fall constantly into the soil.
The tree can draw on the whole air, the
whole earth, on all the rolling main.
The plant, the tree, is oil suction-pipe,
imbibing from the ground by its roots,
from the air by its twiss, With oil its
might.
Take up a spadeful or buck-load oil
loan: who can guess what it holds
But a gardener knows that it is full oil
peaches, full Of oranges. and he drops
IN few seeds BY way ofkeys TO unlock
and combine its virtues-lets il lie in sun
and rain, and by and by il has lifted into
the air Its full weight in golden fruit.
What agencies Of electricity. gravity,
light. affinity. combine to make every
plant what it is, and in a manner Sc
quiet that the presence Of these tremen.
dous powers is not ordinarily suspected.
Faraday said that ga grain of water is
known to have electric relations equiva.
lent to very powerful flush of light
night" The ripe fruit is dropped at las,
without violence, but the lightning fell
and the storm ragged, and strata were
deposited and uptorn and bent back
and chaos moved from beneath to create
and flavor the fruit on your table to-
day. Go out of doors and get the air
All, if you knew what was in the air
See what your robust neishbor, who
never feared to live in it, has got from
it-strensth, cheerfulness, power &c
convince, heartiness and equality 20 each
event. As the sea is the receptacle oil
all rivers, SO the air is the receptacle
from which all things spring, and into
which they all return; an immense dis
tillery, a sharp solvent, drinking the OK.
ygen from plants, carbon from animals
the essence and spirit of every solid on
the globe; q menstrum which melts the
mountains into it. All the earths are
burnt metals. One-halt the avolrdupois
OF the rocks which compose the solid
crust Of the globe consists Of oxygen
The adamant is always passing into
smoke; nature turns her capital day by
day. All things are flowing, even those
that seem immovable.
The earth burns, the mountains burn,
slower but as necessarily as wood in the
fire. The marble column, the brazen
statue burn under the daylight. and
would soon deconpose il their molecu-
lar structure, disturbed by the raging
sunlight, were not restored by the dark
ness of night. Plants and animals burn
or perpetually exhale their own bodies
into the air and earth again. While all
thus burns, the universe in blaze, kin.
died from the torch of the sun, it needs
perpetual temPering, a phlegm. a
sleep. atmospheres OF azote, deluges Of
water, tn check the fury Of the conla.
grafton; a boarding 10 check the spend.
ing, aceniripetenee 10 the centrifuge
And this is uniformly supplied. Nature
is As subtle as she Is strong. and like a
cautious testator ties up her estate so as
not to bestow it all on one generation, blu,
has fore-looking tenderness and equal
regard to the next and the next, and
the fourth and the fortie,h. The winds
and the rains come back thousand and
thousand times. The coal on you,
crate gives out in decomposing to-day
exactly the same amount OF light and
heat which was taken from the sun
shine in its formation in the leaves and
boughs Of the ante diluvian tree. The
earliest hymns of the world were hymns
to these natural forces. The Vedas oil
India. which have . date older than
Homer, are hymns 10 the winds, to the
clouds, and to FIRE.