ant) Xife, 



ployed in its formation. If it is a piece of 

 limestone this latter statement will be emi- 

 nently true. 



Here is a powerful motive for the study of 

 physical science. It is not to be expected, nor 

 is it possible, that every individual can be a 

 scientist in the strict sense of the word, but it 

 is possible for everyone of ordinary intelli- 

 gence to become familiar with the salient facts 

 of science, if only a small portion of the time 

 that is now devoted to the reading of litera- 

 ture that is rather harmful than helpful be 

 spent in studying the phenomena and works 

 of nature. 



The acquirement of such knowledge would 

 furnish every individual with a constant 

 source of instructive amusement that would 

 never lose its interest. He would not be de- 

 pendent every hour upon people and things 

 outside of himself; because he would carry 

 about with him inexhaustible sources of in- 

 struction and pleasure that would furnish him 

 continual and helpful diversion and save him 

 from a thousand morbid tendencies that are 

 always ready to seize upon an unemployed 

 mind. There are many men and women in 

 the insane asylum to-day for the simple reason 

 that they have not made intelligent use of the 

 mental powers that nature has endowed them 

 with. 



Sermons are not always preached from pul- 



