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be redeemed, and evil begin to lose the footing that sickness 

 gives it ? By heaven's law the sick have claims which the 

 healthy have not, and there is more joy over one man cured 

 than over ninety and nine who are sound. This is a test 

 of every society, how it speeds, or how it lags, in ad- 

 ministering to the sick. They are the weakest parts of our 

 common body, and care and thought turn to them with long- 

 ings that are the flesh of the physician's heart. And the 

 more that are healed the more concentrated is the love upon 

 those who suffer still ; so that at length the world's whole 

 skill and tenderness shall surround, with arts and healing 

 tears, the bed of the last sick man." " Then give place to 

 the physician, for the Lord hath created him : let him not 

 go from thee, for thou hast need of him." 



(NOTE TO PAGE 489.) 



For real demonstrable motion of considerable extents of rock, 

 see works on geology, as the rising and subsiding of coasts, the 

 appearance and disappearance of volcanic islands, oscillations of 

 earthquakes, etc.; also, for clearly ascertained vibrations in natu- 

 ral and artificial masses of rock, see "Annual of Scientific Facts" 

 for 1859, on Conducting Power of Eocks, Altitude of Mountains 

 not Invariable, by Charles Maclaren, page 310. It appears from 

 actual observation, that the " entire mass of rock and hill on 

 which the Armagh Observatory is erected, is slightly, but to an 

 astronomer quite perceptibly, tilted or canted at one season to the 

 east, at another to the west. This was at first attributed to the sun's 

 radiation, to the hydrostatic energy of water, and afterwards to con- 

 ducting power of rocks from heated nucleus below. The hill upon 

 which the Armagh Observatory is situated is at the junction of the 

 mountain limestone and clay-slate, one leg on the former, the other 

 leg on the latter. Absorbent rocks are best conductors, and conse- 

 quently in wet seasons will expand most, and tilt the hill to one 

 side, in dry seasons subside most, and tilt the hill in the opposite 

 direction." So mountains and hills swing, like the pendulum, in the 

 waves of heat from above, of heat from below. Bunker Hill Monu- 

 ment, supposed to be a fixed fact, is as uncertain as any other 

 Yankee notion, and vibrates in the brush of the sun, as the pine- 

 tree rocks in the waves of the wind. 



