Scientific amusements . Experiment for turning columbines a green colour with ammoniacal ether and often meet with facts which may be put to profit, andbecome useful in application ; nevertheless it is often thecase that the why and the wherefore will for a long timeescape the most penetrating eye and lucid is true the admirable applications of science strike uswith the importance of their results, and the wonderful COLOURING OF FLOWERS. 35 inventions they originate ; but if they turn to account theobserved facts of nature, what do they teach us as to thefirst cause of all thin
Scientific amusements . Experiment for turning columbines a green colour with ammoniacal ether and often meet with facts which may be put to profit, andbecome useful in application ; nevertheless it is often thecase that the why and the wherefore will for a long timeescape the most penetrating eye and lucid is true the admirable applications of science strike uswith the importance of their results, and the wonderful COLOURING OF FLOWERS. 35 inventions they originate ; but if they turn to account theobserved facts of nature, what do they teach us as to thefirst cause of all things, the wherefore of nature ?—Almostnothing. We must humbly confess our powerlessness, andsay with dAlembert: The encyclopaedia is very abun-dant, but what of that if it discourses of what we do notunderstand 1 Artificial Colouring of Flowers. In a course of chemistry, the action exercised by sul-phurous acid on coloured vegetable matter is proved byexposing violets to the influence of this gas, which whitensthem inst
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