The Practical mechanic's journal . ra. THE PRACTICAL MECHANICS JOURNAL. ANATOMY OF THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OFTHE UNIVERSE. By Mb. R. Smith, —Eleuthicitt. With the flight of each succeeding age, the curiosity of man appearsto increase—his desire to know more of himself and the objects that sur-round him, gradually expands—and his minute endeavours, steadily heldon, lay open to him, step by step, a portion at least of the mysteries ofmind and matter. Aided by the light handed down to him by his pre-decessors, his researches in the unexplored regions of the material worldexplain away t
The Practical mechanic's journal . ra. THE PRACTICAL MECHANICS JOURNAL. ANATOMY OF THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OFTHE UNIVERSE. By Mb. R. Smith, —Eleuthicitt. With the flight of each succeeding age, the curiosity of man appearsto increase—his desire to know more of himself and the objects that sur-round him, gradually expands—and his minute endeavours, steadily heldon, lay open to him, step by step, a portion at least of the mysteries ofmind and matter. Aided by the light handed down to him by his pre-decessors, his researches in the unexplored regions of the material worldexplain away the superstitious falsities of ignorance, and account forphenomena previously deemed too profound for mortal ken. In contem-plating the minutiae of the globe, ho finds that a grain of sand, a drop ofwater, and the petals of a flower, are in themselves worlds teeming withanimal creations—and that a few simple bodies combined in differentproportions are sufficient to produce the infinity of subjects of the ani-mal, vegetable, and
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