The Rescue of an Old Place 



the year into a perpetual Fourth of July, 

 to the delight of the infant mind. 



Seriously speaking, should this new en- 

 tknahtrt terprise prove successful, what a revolu- 

 tion man is to produce in nature ! To 

 trust such powers to his pygmy hand is 

 dangerous, for the consequences of his 

 personal gratification may be fatal to mil- 

 lions. Fertilize the Desert of Sahara, and 

 you cool off the south of Europe. Alter 

 the temperature of Spain and Italy and 

 southern France, and what is to become 

 of the British Isles ? It may be that thus 

 the future of the Dark Continent is to be 

 fulfilled. Migrations southward may be- 

 gin. Norway and Sweden, like Greenland, 

 may be left principally to the inferior 

 races, while new colonies spring up in 

 lands now tenanted but by the wandering 

 Bedouin or the swarthy Soudanese. 



Given new conditions, results are incal- 

 culable, and if the rain, as well as the 

 lightning, is to be harnessed to the Char- 

 iot of Man, who can tell what disaster 

 shall await the Phaeton who dares to 

 drive such mighty and resistless steeds ? 

 Shall he too be hurled to ruin as a punish- 

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