Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...the first revolution, had its academies of science, and its galleries of painting and sculpture, and its magnificent Versailles, where thousands upon thousands assembled every Sunday to gaze on fair statuary, and yet fairer fountains, and to keep holiday amid gay parterres of flowers and orange-trees; but did that prevent Paris from becoming a very Aceldama? did that blunt the edge of the guillotine, or shorten the duration of the Reign of Terror? Literature and science and art will doubtless promote men's true progress, when they are underlaid by that public and private virtue which the Gospel produces and sustains. But, in the case of a people devoid of moral and religious principle, they are only an intoxicating cup to prepare men more speedily for ruin. Nations are great, not in the measure in which they live amidst flowers and fountains and statuary, but in the measure in which they will not lie, will not cheat, will not act a mean and selfish, but a generous and noble part. It is only through the knowledge and belief of the Gospel that a people can be trained to that love of truth and of righteousness which is the true source of national strength and greatness. And hence, with all our admiration of the triumphs recently achieved in the fields of science and invention, we should count them but an equivocal sign of the times, were it not that they are accompanied by a correspondent outspread of Christianity. PROPERTIES OF HEAT. The chief properties of Heat, or Caloric as it is sometimes called, are Radiation and Conduction. Radiation.--Heat always tends, not only to diffuse itself, but to diffuse itself equally. When two bodies are of different temperatures, the warmer gradually parts with its heat to the colder, till both are brought to the same temper...
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