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Show -e-- -' - . - - THE ItQMAKCK OF MODEftX l . . SCIEXCIC Tnrrdd alchemists wasted their lives- In thp pursuit of two 'nnattnlnaljlcobjcets--thcphilosophcr'sstoiiQ aijd the elixir of lifoy tho former tV turn alt lnetnis into gold, ami the'lntfcro bestow perpetual yohth, H is now-known that the turning of all uiotuls Into gold: would havei-'gr'catly di; minished, instead pf adding to tho. wealth of mankind"; for, if gold were so dbundant-, it woold.-uo'Idngcr aiiSwcr tho purpose for money, and for'usc Jn tho arts It 'is""- less Valuabte.thnrt Irbm It may. bo tlat men wilt-some tlmo'bo brought to the, belief that. unradmgyouth would, beuo.blcsslng,; but with Oar light, it wpuld bp received ns tho greatest boon -which it is- possible to imagine. Modern science 'does nPt c'xpcnd Us e'f-; forts in the pursuit 6f these chimeras;' but while it is familiar with marvels oil which tho ancient alchemist could form no conception, its own future !is not-wholly not-wholly unadorned with the dreams of. ro- iqance. Had sonio superior intelligence appeared to ouo of th? long bearded old Arabs, nmoug hff retorts and crucibles,' and prophesied the achievemcutaf which' the human raco wero destined to make,' within a few hundred years, how utterly5, incredible, would have been the prophecy !t Looking down the future, hp woukr have suiilt "It shall bo ascertained that Arabia, the Red Sort, all the countries coun-tries thut you have ever heard of, iire not at rest, but aru- CBitstaiilly rushing' away toward the Hast more swiftly Hinn the (light of "an arr6w from tv bow. The dis-taneo dis-taneo Iroin us to the sun is such -tbnt A horse, runidug 20 miles im hotiri without rest day or night, Would require -more, than &00 years to mskp' the journey; find yet this distance shall bp -tfirtisarcd, -With; a ro.l and lino. Though this "fiery- orb is-as is-as largaas 1,400,001) globea the sizo -ol-this vurfb, maii sliall measure its mighty span. HP s,halt weigh its vast mass wilhj n balance, and the sum of its tuns' shall bo told Hidden from the eves df all who. have ever lived, deep wink in thi-depths thi-depths of space,- he shall behold ;omilIes myriads of other 6Un, aiHrliaJI'.ipjroXi- ' mutely compnto tho luconccivoblu distances dis-tances which- wpitr.ito ihenr 'from us.,1 Swarming In the dust beueath our frt't, in the air we breathe, in tint, interior ol mir own-bodies, lit every stagnant ' jwol,' lie-shall discover uiutiliudcn ol liUngl beings, of Ktrpngo and. curioni stnieturt! ivtiosft inimljirs cast (bote vf the yislbtej iitbsbiliintsof the earth intoliLlgeillk;in('e.4 Jlo sIiaII put iroi'i iiitiT a condition In: which it shall Ikicwiuo us incorrupt tble a1! gold, and thus shall your iong-soo-rht I jdiiivsOpbiT's sioiio be discovered- Tiicj iuipulailile vapor which is'i! frwa water holuitl hariu-tto hi chariot wlnvls; bo I shall roakti it dy his tnlue, griud his corn, ! ifciiw hut nd, weave bis etothe., and -litivo his pOHiUmns iron shijts over the intoiinystn to givut continents now un-t un-t discovered. At bn, eusy command, tin-i tin-i rock shall leap rrom Jls firm bcil and rush headlong through the sir. He shall lay h'ts hand upon tht folitl mouutaiiij, and they shall yuwn opea to his passage; he shall bo bortio through them iu caso and comfort with a velocity1 unattuiu.iblo by tlio fleetest steeds Tiia sunbeam shall become his most faithful limner, aud the thunderbolt of heaven the obedient ser- Vatit.of his. wltlflnsllcocb'lt shnllglido ifi J swiftly forth bearing his messages 'of ff m I business, of pleasure; or pf tbpricc to tho 1 M f uttcrmost'patts of thb earth, Irtho twink-' Wk Ihigpran cye,?,, , L .. r-'ijt-f M J Tht hibdcrn' sfudent'of saVnce,' glo whom;thcio iricrediblpmarvchS orc acebni- ' M I jilisbcd-aiid familiar -facts, seems 'Mi hopeful, of the 'continued triumph rif '4Hp j human Intclligciico than ivrp .thpnnbient nlcheralsts; but tlfcro, aro. fomot urdent ff Mm imaginations that loro tof' sweep. ".foVwaril ' 'fa I j and revel lu dreams otrthe; future '.jiowr '& all or our race; thbogli thtV -wildest nfghls of fl&T, tho most fertile fancy are fame w hen com- ifi&3 1 pared with tlio.nccomplishcd pchiovf rhchts I- of the. past;i ThcBo,miu4:oucelvo that ,f tpdn'iii pow'cr.of ra'ns'pdrtiiiffchli'body - l from oup place, to. uno'lher, Ims by1 io 4 IM' mcaps reached Its ultimate lim'ti; that ,ho . ml wilPnbt only "move "mora swiftly ovCMbb ' . j earth, but .that Tie will sail through tha s Wd air and sweep under thb sea. lu' their ('" view, as the coal fields fali;.man.,wilboro fc i ll? through the, solid tfusof the 'carlfcana '-ill warm grcat.dUci .with it Intc'riial. fires, 49 i Xhenpjtjinttccs pf industry will , continue $! Mi's to bp ,multipl?e4;tiH .ali . aro ablei to bom- J fi- monjl lciiurc,"ni!d thus to, tccuf mental Jl;9t cuHivaUop.. thrctuo-ili.of-rigpo- '19' rimcp and Die temptatipjjot poverty; ,d lt9 "fH?1'?!' rKo. and.crh'u'e, $hallxensc,'xtid V1& oppfesfon-urid'; S-fitjiuaU bV-broughMy "V f R ,Ai).H-na;7hndiitellfgpnwrir.c,oirifort, pros- vfMI P,1,ynvirlu'0( Pfi4'.nn.d .hoppiucsi;. shall ;" j iWt :tHVthP cauifnoif Iu'heHliiicetofjilt;;3Uigli- f. tM ,f ritjllJf . A.s (be dctay( ,of old ..'b" is i W Oanscdby' the.,.'ttrailuarsaccumuiatlpit. b,C jM lft: solid depailts jii the'tViujtiiidi'ns, ih'cjo orb knpwu'ifOl t's. Of. lhce deposits, eoiu (4 all pfi'thb h'oldcft . luiogiu'itions ' I bvliqld'Hliu fdtnre' fiUcil with ' U iirigfiftsQ't; ntf M hopes the premise of perietuat'ybuth'M |
