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154 SCIENCE FOR WOMEN.
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One Of The Chief Points Of Good Husbandr...
wrought ; the furrier's dyed rabbit skins would no longer sell for real sableand the brush-maker ' s brooms must be reallyas well as
nominally , , composed of bristles . So far , then , would studies , of this kind be from interfering with home duties , that they would actually
take their place among them , and might fairly be reckoned among the lishments of good housewifery .
how But accomp much proceeding would there a little be beyond to this very amount utilitarian of attention application that _^ any
could be devoted to so wonderful rep an ay instrument ; for great as have been the discoveries of moderndays in this departmentwe have a &
yet but an outline map of the iafhiitesim , al universe which , surrounds us and were the student ' s tenfold that of Alexander , yet
never ; would room be found energy for the lamentation that there was nothing left to conquer . Tlie glimpses we have caught of the
strange mysterious existences which pervade all space , that atomic life within life which displays so forcibly the great law of mutuality ,
that all things were made for all , serve rather to excite than to gratifcuriositfor they show that worlds _uiDon worlds are yet lying
y lored a y b , oundless field for researchin which a thousand unexp Columbuses ; discover fresh continentsunnumbered , _Leverriers
may , track new planets in space , for myriads of objects are lying everywhere around us which have never yet been seen by mortal eye ;
but which only need an eye to be turned upon them with due optical aidand they are readto unfold themselves in endless
variety of novelty , and beauty . y And then the singular motions of _animalculse , the curious and often lovely forms into which many a
seeming chaos decomposes , the "wondrous coloring evolved by polarizationmay not only enlarge the knowledge of nature , but supply
new ideas , in artand add freshcharms to literature . The latter consideration , as it , regards the whole subject of this ,
paper , merits special attention , for it gives hope of a higher development than has ever yet been reached of man ' s most
celestial endowment , the Divine gift of P'oesy . When nature has been their themebards have sunfor centuries what has been in
great measure the , poetry of ignorance g , and therefore of error ; the poetry of science would be the poetry of truth , and as the heavens
are higher than the earth , so must the true ever rise above the false . The sun " slow setting in the west" has gilded rhymes
enough with a sham glitter : would the description be less poetical , because more realif it were rather to tell of the rapid rushingr
earth , plunging , with , a mother's firm impartiality , half her children li into ht darkness ? The moon that the has long other half mi h g ht risen in turn from enj her oy ocean their bed share " in of ;
g enoug truer nothing song-, sense onl of y strength to to the recall expression or the soothing sight and of be a bring fallacious foun ing d in before appearance giving us the a newer ; vision but and can of
her fragmentary mass torn from , the bosom of the palpitating earth
to shine in calm splendor above , reflecting radiance on tliat
154 Science For Women.
154 SCIENCE FOR WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/10/
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