The three circuits: a study of the primary forces . ls. Then opening SteelesFourteen Weeks7 in Philosophy, at p. 253, I found apicture of sixteen very fine specimens with the com-ments of the author on their wonderful beauty andvariety,* Fig. 17. I noticed that notwithstandingtheir great variety, they were all constructed on thesame general plan. Six points projecting from a * In Warrens New Physical Geography, there is a cutcontaining thirty-two specimens, all of which are this work it is stated that they may be seen on a darkcloth with the aid of a microscope. I have seen them on
The three circuits: a study of the primary forces . ls. Then opening SteelesFourteen Weeks7 in Philosophy, at p. 253, I found apicture of sixteen very fine specimens with the com-ments of the author on their wonderful beauty andvariety,* Fig. 17. I noticed that notwithstandingtheir great variety, they were all constructed on thesame general plan. Six points projecting from a * In Warrens New Physical Geography, there is a cutcontaining thirty-two specimens, all of which are this work it is stated that they may be seen on a darkcloth with the aid of a microscope. I have seen them onthe ground without such aid ; I never saw any that were nothexagons. 164 THE THREE CIRCUITS. hexagonal frame; however, three of them varyslightly from the plan. One of them has twelvepoints, which is a multiple of six ; another is an opentriangle, the lines of which being double I had onlyto imagine them separated and then it also conformedto the general plan. The third is a small cylinderwith three hexagonal buttons strung on it at equal Fig. distances from each other. It also is a handsomespecimen and yet it seems out of place among its su-periors. I concluded that it was intended to em-phasize the fact that there is no rule in nature or artthat is not subject to exceptions. Still considering the subject, I thought, why should SNOW CRYSTALS. 165 these crystals bear the image of the earths forces?Why should not some of them have five points, orseven, or any number of points? What has causedthem to conform so nearly to a general plan ? Thesemay be simple questions, I thought, but they are noteasily answered. Looking again at the crystals and the diagram, andthinking about the forces represented by them andthe amazing work of world formation, it occurred tome that the atmosphere is probably a residue of pri-mordial matter and that drops of water in suspensionare probably minature worlds. Accepting this to bethe truth, I concluded, that as the tiny trembling dropscongealed,
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