80 that's IT; 



derived from the combustion of j locomotive and the stationary- 

 carbonized matter obtained from engine. Without coal civiliza- 

 submerged and entombed forests, tion could not have advanced ; 

 10, upon which the same sun there could not have been enough 

 that yields us light to-day poured food or raiment for the people 

 out its great effulgence when the who now live ; remote parts of 

 world began, in obedience to the globe with which frequent 

 that Almighty power which intercourse is now carried on, 

 commanded light and all things . would have remained compara- 

 to be ! | tively unknown. It cannot be 



The same may be said of those | said, therefore, that those great 

 cheerful fires before which we forests grew in vain ; we taste 

 gather when the cold winds of j their fruit in the mighty works 

 winter sing their doleful songs ; of progress which mark the pre- 

 around the walls of our dwell- sent time, and thus the design- 

 ings ; of the fires which feed the 1 ing wisdom of God is made 

 great furnaces of our iron works manifest, whether in the succes- 

 and foundries ; of those which sion of ages, of seasons, or of 

 evoke the powers of steam in the days and nights. 



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