SEARCHERS AFTER NATURE'S TRUTHS 



The great men who have taught us the uses of 

 steam and electricity are only a few of those who have 

 spent their lives in searching to learn the laws of 

 nature, those laws that God has given to the world, 

 and to know those things that make up the world' 

 whether gas, or rock, or plant, or living creature, or 

 an unseen force. 



At first all men thought the earth was flat, because 

 the Httle we can see at one time looks flat. They 

 believed that it was surrounded by a mighty ocean 

 into which the sun sank at night, and out of which it 

 rose again on the other side in the morning. They 

 saw the sun and the stars rise in the east, move 

 through the sky, and sink out of sight in the west. 

 Why should they not beUeve what they saw? 



Most of them rested content with taking things 

 to be just what they appeared to be, but some ques- 

 tioned and wondered. ''What is the world ? " they 

 thought. ''What is the sun, and what are all those 

 myriads of stars, which flash and twinkle through 

 the nights, and which seem to change with the differ- 

 ent seasons?" 



They noticed that the sun did not seem to travel 

 through the sky along the same path among the stars 

 month by month. In the winter it was much nearer 

 the horizon than it was in the long, summer days. 



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