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the disposition of its walls and angles ; the chemist engaged to pro- 

 tect it against the influence of atmospheric causes, to guard it from 

 the tempest and avert from it the lightning. The poet and the 

 painter lavished the perfection of their art upon it ; one covered its 

 interior with pictures of every natural beauty, whilst the other 

 exhausted language in their description. Like this is the one great 

 family to which the learned of all nations belong ; it is the unison 

 of many notes producing a perfect harmony, not the monotonous 

 tinkling of one by some self-sufficient dreamer who considers all 

 the rest harsh and untunable. Philosophy is not to be considered 

 in the light in which Romeo viewed it ; we must not cry " Hang 

 up philosophy, unless philosophy can make a Juliet." In the beau- 

 tiful expression of Florian, " The sons of science should resemble 

 those brilliant flowers which, although dispersed in various climates, 

 compose but one single family." 



[We cannot publish Mr. Langston Parker's fifth and concluding Paper on 

 the Imagination, without thanking the talented author for the gratification 

 he has afforded the readers of The Analyst by this delightful Course of Lec- 

 tures — Eds.] 



SWARM OF MINUTE INSECTS IN AND AROUND 

 MACCLESFIELD. 



The gloomy, cheerless, and almost wintry weather which pre- 

 vailed throughout the greater part of September was suddenly suc- 

 ceeded, on the morning of the 24th, by a gleam of delightful 

 warmth, reminding us of the most enjoyable days of summer. The 

 wind blew softly from the south, the sun shone with the vigour of 

 July, and the remnant of the preceding cold air lingering within 

 our houses presented a singular contrast with the genial zephyrs 

 which welcomed the opener of a door or a window. Those who 

 were early risers on the above Saturday morning must have observ- 

 ed the moist accumulation of vapour on the outside surface of their 

 window panes, consequent on this change of temperature. The 

 glass, being an indifferent conductor of heat, for a time retained the 

 internal chill derived from the previous unseasonable state of the 

 air, and condensed from the southern-borne breezes the aqueous 



