Selections of the Most Remarkable Phenomena of Nature (Classic Reprint)

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IN one sense, ever?7 atom of existing matta afi'ords a theme or wonder; in another, nothi does. Man may be considered ci ther as knowin so much, that he cannot fail to be astonis ed with ever thing; or so little, that he is incapable o ap reciatiz? The strangeness of any thing. Isregal' ing, however, the wranglings both 0 the sophist and the sceptic, of the would-be wxse, and the affectedly ignorant, we shall form a correcter estimate of the human mind, by avoiding either extreme, and as cribin to.it a medium power. There can be litt e question that our ideas of the won derful are relative, depending upon the strength and cultivation of the understand ing. The child looks with surprise on the simplest toy, whilst the philosopher sees nothing but what is at once natural and necessary in the revolution of systems. There are certain known and fixed laws by which all the operations of Nature are carried on; and even in those instances. E not few) in which the causes action of these laws are con'

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