CEKAMIC WARE. 



WHEN Archimedes ejaculated, 'Give me whereon to stand, 

 and I will move the world,' he merely clothed in words a 

 thought that, aroused by many promptings and from a variety 

 of causes, presents itself, occasionally, to every thinking mind. 

 We rarely analyse that thought into its elements ; but when 

 so analysed, it is found to express the general proposition, 

 that the condition of duality is necessary to the existence of 

 force to the manifestation of power. 



The Corsican Prometheus, lingering out his life on the 

 Atlantic prison rock, bore curious testimony to his apprecia- 

 tion of the dual condition as indispensable for the exercise 

 of power. The circumstance is recorded by Barry O'Meara, 

 and may be shortly stated as follows: There had been a 

 question of submarine boats, of navigable balloons. Conver- 

 sation turned upon the latter. ' It will never be possible to 

 navigate air-balloons,' observed Napoleon to his doctor, 6 never. 

 For that to be possible, two mediums would be wanted ; and 

 Nature furnishes but one the air to aeronauts. Ships are 

 navigable,' continued he, f by reason of the two mediums air 

 and water.' He paused and gazed upon the ocean, assuming 

 one of those contemplative attitudes which painters have made 

 familiar. Napoleon seemed to be mentally scanning some 

 long array of thoughts associated with balloon navigation 

 thoughts that, like captives chained and following their leader, 

 marched past the great captain's fancy. 'No,' ejaculated 

 the Emperor, starting at last from his reverie and addressing 

 himself to O'Meara ; ' without two mediums there can be no 

 power, no government.' 



