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remote Oceania have become impregnated with the all-per¬ 
vading; fluid of this intellectual magnetism.” 
O O 
But it should not be forgotten that there is a law of pro¬ 
gress downwards as well as upwards, and whether the one or 
the other obtains will depend upon ourselves. By science, 
energy, and combination, everything may be effected we 
desire; while the absence of these will cause us to degenerate. 
Onward progression alone is our safety. If we remain still, 
like stagnant water, we shall become foul, or as a heap of 
dead matter soon run into a state of decomposition, rot, and 
disappear. Those who attempt to oppose mind-progress 
are fast becoming extinct. Soon they will be “ embalmed 
like the mummies in Egypt, or fossilized like the mammoth 
in Siberia. Their relics will be dug up in future days as the 
bulls were at Nineveh, or the earthen pots at Iximaya and 
they will be as things to be wondered at, and create surprise; 
while their efforts will be unavailing as the angry waves that 
dash themselves against the solid rocks only to be dispersed 
in foam— 
** Vox et prseterea nihil.” 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
CHEMISTRY IN ITS APPLICATION TO AGRICULTURE AND 
PHYSIOLOGY. 
By A. S. Cope man, Utica, N. Y. 
Modern chemistry has discovered that the material world, 
or all that we see around us—minerals, vegetables, and 
animals, the grain of sand or the mountain, the lofty oak 
or the microscopic fungi, the monster elephant or the dimi¬ 
nutive mouse, the luxuriant vegetation of the sea, with its 
millions of living beings, including that vast winding-sheet, 
the atmosphere, all consist of but sixty-one different kinds or 
species of matter, termed by chemists elements. 
More than forty of these elements are metals, with which we 
shall have nothing to do. The great mass of our globe is 
