464 MODERN CHEMISTRY. 



future discovery ; each giving access to new truths, yet all 

 converging towards common principles and powers. If there 

 be less of epic character here than in Astronomy, yet does 

 the science of Chemistry form a noble didactic poem 

 admirable and harmonious in all its parts, and carrying us 

 forwards, through a long series of wonderful phenomena, to 

 those great and eternal laws which express the Providence 

 and the wisdom governing the world. 



