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SCIENTIFIC RECREATIONS. 



amusement we frequently take it to be. It is a grand study, a study for a 

 lifetime. Nature is always willing, like a kind, good mother as she is, to 

 render us up her secrets if we inquire respectfully and lovingly. The more 

 we inquire the more we shall find we have to learn. In these and the 

 following pages we can only tell you a few things, but no one need be 

 turned away because he does not find all he wants. We never do get all 

 we want in life, and there are many first-rate men scientists who would 

 give "half their kingdom " for a certain bit of knowledge concerning some 

 natural phenomena. There are numerous excellent treatises on chemistry, 

 and exhaustive as they are, at present they do not tell us all. Let these 

 popular pages lead us to the study of nature, and we shall find our labour 

 far from onerous and full of interest, daily increasing to the end, when we 

 shall know no more of earth, or chemistry. 



As a preliminary we will put our workshop aside, and show you some- 

 thing of Chemistry without a Laboratory. 



