. McClure's magazine. At The height of the eruption at this stage was 135,200 miles. At A M. Height, 161,500 miles. able substances in na-ture. A lump of cokeonly differs from apiece of carbon by theash which the cokeleaves behind whenburned. As charcoalis almost entirely car-bon, so wood is largelycomposed of this sameelement. Carbon isindeed present every-where. In variousforms carbon is in theearth beneath our feet,and in the air which webreath. This substancecourses with the bloodthrough our veins; it isby carbon that the heatof the body is sus-tained; and the sameelement
. McClure's magazine. At The height of the eruption at this stage was 135,200 miles. At A M. Height, 161,500 miles. able substances in na-ture. A lump of cokeonly differs from apiece of carbon by theash which the cokeleaves behind whenburned. As charcoalis almost entirely car-bon, so wood is largelycomposed of this sameelement. Carbon isindeed present every-where. In variousforms carbon is in theearth beneath our feet,and in the air which webreath. This substancecourses with the bloodthrough our veins; it isby carbon that the heatof the body is sus-tained; and the sameelement is intimatelyassociated with life inevery phase. Nor isthe presence of carbonmerely confined to thisearth. We know itabounds on other bod-ies in space. It hasbeen shown to be emi-nently characteristic of
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