186 WHAT WE OWE TO OUR COAL-FIELDS. 



associated with the industrial and intellectual operations 

 of the present ! Inexplicable, if creation were not the 

 unfolding of a great moral as well as of a great physical 

 scheme a scheme in which every element and operation 

 in time past as in time present plays an essential part, and 

 from which not a jot or tittle could be abstracted without 

 marring the symmetry and perfection of the whole. 



