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his own poet-mincL, will be looked upon with profound 
reverence; and the names of Davy,, Liebig* Berzelius* 
and Dumas* will adorn the poetical annals of generations 
now waiting to be born. The same scrutinizing power 
which detects ozone in the atmosphere* and in this way 
accounts for the peculiar odour of the electric spark; 
which traces out the analogy between that same atmo¬ 
sphere and nitric acid; which discovers the method of 
converting old rags into sugar* and sawdust into bread; 
which detects the service of the humble moss in cleaving 
and crumbling the rugged rocks on which it chances to 
grow* by means of the oxalic acid which its roots 
contain; which observes the effect of sunlight in 
elaborating the juices of the fruits* and makes the same 
sunlight a painter of pictures; which compounds a 
material which acts as an antidote to pain* and proves 
one of the greatest of auxiliaries in the service of 
humanity* under the name of chloroform ; which not 
only finds 
“-— Tongues in trees, 
Books in the running brooks, sermons in stones 
but travels up 
“ ——— Through the measureless fields, 
Where the silver moon and the comet wheels,” 
and measures the magnitude of those lamps of God;— 
will deal with higher than physical things* and learn to 
attach its sympathies with a moral law; securing for 
itself a nobler salvation than from the choke-damp of a 
mine, and inheriting a purer religion than the worship 
of organic compounds. 
