gratittifit. ATOMS: We would be as gods, knowing all things; and the child is father to the man. The boy breaks tup his most ingeniou's toys, to surprise the secrets hidden within ; the man dissects, analyzes, probes all nature, to dis cover the ultimate qualities and causes of everything. It is quite an error to suppose that cariosity is a passion to which the fair sex is peculiarly propense. Tell either man or boy that there is a thing he cannot do, a plee he cannot visit, a fact he can not ascertain, and no rest is his until he has effected the thing, reached the spot, tested the circumstance. From what else should arise the strong attraction which the trans mutation of Metals, the tap of Mount Cer vin, the constitution of matter, exercises on multitudes ? Respecting the latter subject of inquiry; modern science has drawn up for itself a creed which is almost as precise as a trea tise on arithmetic. Whether future philo sophers will modify those notions it remains for a future period to show. There seems at present every probability, that we ,have really hit upon the truth. Matter is known to us under three forms —solid, liquid, and gaseous. The ethereal modification of matter (the attenuated ether which fills the interplanetary and intersid creel spaces) we do not know, but only in fer, suppose, and guess at. But, as Pro fessor Tyndall quietly observes; there is no more difficulty in conceiving this ether, as it is called, which fills space, than in ima• gining all spaCe filled with jelly. All matter, of whatever form, is believed to be made up of atoms. Gases we can easily conceive to consist of independent particles which repel each other; liquids to be made up of minute molecules, behav ing, when poured out, like grains of wheat or sand, still held together by a slight 'at traction ; but there is much greater diffi culty in granting solid bodies twin collec tions, groups, or aggregates of atoms not in actual contact with each other. • Solid bodies especially, therefore, have long puzzled •people who have considered them with careful attention. They expand, and they, contract.-.- gow ? It must be by the expansiOn and contraption of their con stituent parts. But what are their: con stituent parts? They cannot be anything else than atoms of inconceivable littleness. According to many' philosophers, group \ 'atoms together, and yell have'a molecule ; but, in common parlan'ee, atoms' and -Mole cules may be • regarded as•synonymous. Combine molecules in sufficient quantilty, and you, produce a particle-7 , a portion of matter of form and size appreciable by the human eye.. Matter is similar in, its nature thruu.h= ~ out the solar system 'at least. Spectral • analyeis has shown that minerals, found on earth, are also Contained in the'sun and tbe planets, not to mention diverse mid sundry fixed stars. The same fact is proved by the examination. of bolides, or shooting stars.• A bolide is a planet in miniature : a small mass of matter, revolving round the sun in a longer or shorter elliptical orbit, obeying the same laws and governed by the same forces as the greater. planets.. Now, sup pose the orbit describhd by a holide to cross the orbit of the eartb, exactly as 'one road crosses another; and, moreover; that the two travellers reach the point of junction or crossing at the very seine time: A col lision is the • inevitable, consequence. The bolide, which, in'respect to size, is no more than a pebble thrown against a railway train, will strike the earth without her in-, habitants experiencing, generally, the slight est shock. If individuals happen to be hit, the case will be different. It the earth arrive there a little before or after the bol ide, but at a relatively trifling distance, she will attract it, cause it to Olt its own orbit; dragging it after her, an obedient slave, to revolve around her until it falls t'o her sur face. Or it mad happen ;.•that the bolide may pass too far away for'the earth to : drag it into her clutches, and yet near enough to make it swerve from its course. It may even enter our atmosphere, and yet make, its escape. But, in the ease of its entering the atmosphere, its friction against the air will, cause it to become luminous and hot, perhaps determining an explosion. - Such are the meteors whose• appearance at' enor mous heights our newspapers record 'from time to time. _ _ Be it remarked that bolides are true planets, and not projectiles.shot from moun tains in the moon, as has been conjectured. A projectile coming from the moon would reach the earth with a velocity of about seven miles per second. But the:Most sluggish bolide travels at the rate' of nearly nineteen miles per second; fast-goers doing their sit-and-thirty milei in the sameshort space of time. None 'of the inferior planets travel so rapidly as dad: , .Mercury, the swiftest of them.all gets over only thirty miles per second. 'Jr.t Tyndall._ states that this enormous speed is, certainly competent to produce the effects ascribed to it. When a bolide, then, glances sufficiently close to our earth to pass through our at mosphere, the resulting friction maket , its surface rd hot, and so renders it visible' o us. The sudden rise of temperature modi: fies its structure. The unequal expansion causes it'to explode with a report which is audible. If the entirnmass does not-burst, it at least throws off splibters and frag ments. The effect is the same as that pro duced by pouring boiling water upon glass. The fragments, falling to the ground, are aerolites. It is needless here to cite in stances of their falling. They are of uni versal notoriety. Aerolites have no new substance to offer us. If the earth, there fore, be made up of ateafts, we may conclude that the universe is made up of atoms. In imagining the ultimate composition of a solid body, we lieve to' reconcile'two: ap parently coutradictorylonditions , It is an assemblage of atoms "whitilr do not touch. each other—for we are obliged to admit intermolecular spaces—and yet those atoms are held, together in cluster y s b . o,stron a force of oohesien as to give to the 1./h g ole the qualities of a solid. This would be the case even with a, solid ,undergOing no change of size or internal constitution But solids do change, under pressure, im pact, heat, and cold. Their constituent atoms are, consequently, not at rest. Mr. Grove tells us : " Of absolute rest, Nature gives us no evidence. All matter, as far as we can ascertain, is ever in movement, not merely in masses, as with the planetary spheres, but also molecularly, or through out its most intimate structure. Thus, every alteration of temperature produces a molecular change throughout the whole substance heated or cooled. Slow chemi cal or electrical action, actions of light or invisible radiant forces, are always at play; so, that, as a fact, we cannot predicate of any portion of 'Palter, that it is absolutely at rest." The atoms, therefore, of which solid bodies consist are supposed .o vibrate, to oscillate, or, better, to revolve, like the planets, in more or less eccentric orbits. Suppose a solid body to be represented by a swarm of gnats dancing in the sunshine. Each gnat, or atom, dances up and down, at a certain distance from each other gnat, within a given limited space. The path of the dance is not a mere straight line, but a vertical oval—a.true orbit. Suppose, then, that in consequence of greater sun heat, the gnats become more active, and exlend each its respective sweep of flight. The swarm, or solid body, as a whole, expands.lf, from a chill or the shadow of a cloud, the insect's indiiidual range is less exten sive, the crowd of gnats is necessarily den ser, and the swarin, in its integrity,icon tracts. Tyndall takes forhis illustration a bullet revolving at the end of a spiral string. He had spoken of the vibration of the mole cules of a solid as causing its expansion ; but he remarks that, by some, the mole cules have been thought to 'revolve round each other; and the communication of heat, by augmenting their centrifugal force, was supposed—to push them more widely asunder. So he twirls the weight, at the end of the spring, in the open air. it tends to fly away ; the spring stretches to a centain extent; and,,as the speed of revolution is augmented, the spring stretches still more, the distance between his hand and the weight being thus in creased. The spring rudely figures the force of cohesion, While the ball represents , an atom under the influence of heat. The intellect, he truly sayg, knows no difference betweenrgreat and small. It is just as easy, as an intellectual act, to pic ture a vibrating or revolving atom as to picture a vibrating or revolving cannon ball., These inotimis,however, - are executed with : , in limit iloolninute, and the moving par tides are too small, to be visible. 0 Here the imagination must help us, In the cage of solid, bodies, you must conceive, a Tower of vibration, within certain 'limits to be ppssessed by the molecules. "You must suppose them oscillating to and frio; the greater the amount of heat, we impart to the hody;‘the' macs iaPid will be the mole cular vibratiori, and the wider' the ampli tude *of atomic oscillationS.' It is held that all matter differs only in the grouping of itsselementsin the juxta position of its molecules. That juxtaposi tion depends on the temperature, and, the speed with which, changes of temperature have taken place. , The mode and manner of those changes are so, many causes of the transformation of matter—so many origins of divers substances. It is maintained that, in'thd actual state of science, bodies differ only by the'clustering of their atoms, exactly as , the constellations of the sky differ through the arrangement of their stars. take a bird's-eye view, from the car of a balloon, of four or five towns,sat a con siderable altitude. They will diger buti. very slightly iu,aspect; they are Simply towns.,,, From a point of view nearer to the earth, their, distinctive oharacters will be visible; showinc , b themselves in the dis position of the honks,' the topography of 'the streets, 'and the distribution of the publie = walks. 'Such isi , the. due with a mineral or any other substance whatever. Accordingly, as natural forces >have laid out,,on this •or that plan, the walks; streets, and -houses of our little, moletly.lar. cities they strike you ,with a difer.enkimpression. one. deperida on the dill of theArchi 'tect, the other on the action offrthe predo . 'minant force. , • Wax, for instance, is cite y our great lecturer as" expanding, in passing from the -solid tothe liquid state. To assume the liquid form, its particles must . be • pushed more widely apart, a certain play between them being necessary to the condition of liquidity. Ice, on the contrary,, on lique fying, contracts. In the arrangement of its atoms to form a solid, more roue is re quired than those atoms need in the neigh boring liquid state. No doubt this is due to crystalline arrangement. The attracting poles of the Molecules'are so situated, that, when the crystallizing force comes 'lnto play, the molecules unite,. so as to leave larger-interatomic spacesin the mass: We may suppose them to attach themselves by their corners and, in : turning .. .,corner to corner, to, cause a recession of the atomic centres. At all events their centres re treat from each other when solidification seta ins , The, atoms of bodies must. be regarded as all but infinitely ; the"necessary con sequeitee of whichis, that they must be all but infinitelynumerous. Alearned French man, Vasieur A. Gaudin:, calculator• at the Bureau des Longitudes, has lately esti mated, by a very ingeniu§, process, the die tanees,which separate • molecules and their component atoms, and their number. Tbe result he obtains is, that, if you set, about -counting the atoms contained in a little cube of solid matter two millimetres high, that is, about the size of a pin's head, and that you counted a billion of them per sec ond, it would take you about two hundred and'fifty thqusand years to complete the task ! " Consequently, although the increase of the diameter of a revolving atom's orbit by the communication of heat is insensible, the sum of an almost infinite number of increased orbits becomes perfectly sensible. Comparing the, infinitely small with the infinitely great, it is helil tha.t a body, of what kind soever, represents in miniature, and very e7.actly, an astronomical system, e ,yr,hich, weather like thos permitting, we perfectly aware that the night in the firm am ent. behold every Astronomersare earth is only a inelecule amidst the innu merable stare' which constitute the Milky THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY. APRIL 12, 1866. Way. But a body. never mind what— take wood, gold,.or diamond, to have a clear idea—is nothing more than a heap of mole cular constellations diversely grouped. From the extreme of vastness to the ex treme of minuteness, the analysis holds good throughout. Although our eyd is not framed to perceive all their - details, these infinitely small stars and systems of stars, other creatures, as for example insects, whose vision is differently constituted to ours, may possibly—althofigh not probably —be able to see some of ihem. One thing, however, appears certain ; if we could construct a microscope of suffi cient power, we should be able, by the help of such an instrument, to resolve the mole- mkt. constellations of every little terres- trial milky way, exactly as our first-rate ,telescopes resolve the celestial nebulae and se parate, double and triple stars. It lea mere question ,of visual power. Were our sight sufficiently ' penetrating, we should behold what now appear mere confused heaps of matter, arranged in groups of admirable symmetry. Bodies would appear honey combed in all directions. Daylight would stream through vast interstices, as it, does between ,the columns of a 'temple or the tree-trunks of p. forest. Nay, we should see immense empty spaces, like those which *intervene betwe-en the planets. From distance To distance, too, we Should perceive clusters of stars in harmonious order, each surs.unded by its own proper atmosphere; and—still more astounding spectacle !—every one of these littla i mole cular stars would be found revolving with giddy rapidity, in more or less elongated ovals, exactly like,the great stars of heaven; while by increasing the power of our in, strument, we should discover around each principal star, minor stars—satellites re sembling our moon,accomplishing their revolutions swiftly and regularly. This view of the constitution of Matter is aptly described by M. de Parville as molecular astronomy, maintaining even that astrono my, without our suspecting it, is dependent on mineralogy; and that whenever we shall have discovered the laws which govern the groupings and the movements of tht infi nitely small, astronomers will' have only to follow in our track. But who, a huiadTed years ago, could dare to imagine that the 'infinitely small was so infinitely great ? 'What is now believed to. be the nearest guess at the truth, `appears, at first sight, to be the dream - of a madman. , • Those who • love to indulge in, paradox., now state that their theory, is very For, them,,thesolarsystem is a solid parti2 ele, • homogeneous. The,planets composing . are.molecules which virtually crowd, each, other, touch and adhere. The space bey, tween them is no more ' than the interval which separates`the itoins'of the cempitetegt metal=silVer, iron, 'Or platinid Distance, therefore,' it is -argued, is'aneniptY*.-word,;, distance, in fact, does not exist. - -Never theless, a man may cenvince . himself that • distance, for him,,is not an, empty Word,hy jumping out of a first-floor Window. The wonder is; that these molecular mo tions, so rapid as to escape human observa tion, are yet able to inipresahinian' senses, to'give us pain or pleasure, to help us to live-or to cause us to die. And unseizabie as. atoms are, they can; nevertheless, be counted and weighed. Chemists have de termined the relative weights.of, the atoms of different substances. Calling the weight of a hydrogen atom one, the weight, of, an ox.ygen . atom is, sixteen. Hence, to ,make up a. pound weight , of hydrogen, sixteen times Ethe nuniber of atoms contained in a pound of oxygen would be necessary. What a strange result of the study of 'atoms ! Heat and - light, whose origin was inscrutable, or attributed to Some mysteri ous hypothetical fluid; are now` traced' to their causes. The readerhas already been. informed.that the heat, of the sun is attri r buted to the collision. he .sustains frora a never-ceasin,g shower of meteors. The heat of terrestrial fire is similarly produced. All cases of combestion, Tyndall tells us, are to be ascribed to the collision of atoms , which have been urged l together by their mutual attractions. It is. to the clashing together Of the oxygen of the air . and the constituents of our gas and candles that the light and heat of our flames are due. It is the impact of the atoms of oxygen agaimit the atoms of sulphur, which produces the heat and flame ()Nerved when sulphur is burned in 'oxygn or in air. To the colli sion of the same atoms against phosphorus are due=• the intense heat and dazzling light which result from the combustion of phos phorus in oxygen gas. Whether atoms are concerned, or suns and, planets, the theory is equally applicable and true. When interatomic movements occur under given conditions of mass and velocity, they make an impression on 'the eye. Their undulations communicated from one to the other, strike the retina, and in turn eet vi brating the atoms of which• it is 'composed. We see -we receive the impression.of light. And accordingly as 'the .-vibrations occur with certain- proportional rapidities, they give us : the sense of blue, yellow, red, and the other visible tintsof the, rainbow, be beause there arse certainly other tints which are not visible to the human eye, exactly as there are sounds not midible to the human ear. Atonis and their motions are there fore the physical 'cause of color. 'Wonder ful as it must appear, the length of the waves -both of soUnd and 'light,-and the number of shoeke which- they respeetively impart to the ear and eye, have been strictly determined. The number of waves of red light which enter the eye in a single second is 474 439 680 ) 000 000. To produce the impression of red in the brain, the retina must be hit at this almost incredible rate. To impressionproduce Of violet, a still number ofthe . greater n umimpulses is necessary, amounting to six hundred and ninety-one: millions of millions per second. 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' 1025:17 AND EVERY VARIETY OF drub' funtiOing 11365 Mclntire & Brother, Would call attention to their large assortment o very choice Silk Scarfs, Neck Ties, Also, to a stook of IJNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS Fall and Winter Wear, Consisting of Extra Heavy Aferino, Saxony Wool, Also, to their •MODEL "SHOULDER SEAM SHIRTS, " Guaranteed in every case to give entire satisfaction iltatant CHARLES STOKES & CO.'S FIRST-CLASS "ONE PRICE" READY-MADE CLOTHING STORE. (Under the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia.l DIAGRAM FOR SELF-MEASUREMENT For Coat.— Length of back froml to 2, and from 2 to 3. Length of sleeve (with arm crooked) from 4to 5. and around the most prdmi -ment part o the chest andOr waist. State whether erect or stooping. For Vest,— Same as coat. For Pants.— Inside seam, and outside from hip bone, around the Wain and hip. A good fit gua ranteed. Officer? Uniforms, ready-made. always on hand.or made to order in the best manner, ant on the MOill reasonable terms. Having finished many hundred uniforms•the past year for Staff. Field and. Line Offi cers, as well as for the Navy we are prepared to exe cute orders in this line with correctness and despatch. The largest and most desirable stock of Read.y-made Clothing in Philadelphia always on hand. (The price marked in plain figures on all of the goods.) A department for Boys' Clothing is also maintained at this establishment, and superintended by experi enced hands. Parents and others will Mid herika most desirable assortment of Boys' Clothing at low priced. , Sole Agent tot. the "Famous Bullet-Proof Vest." CHARLES STOKES & CO. ;ilanhaz SAMUEL WORE, WORK,. McCOUCH & CO., No. 36 SOUTH TRIED Street, Philadelphia, DRAINE.S . in GOVERNMENT I,OANS AND COIN. Bills of Exchange on New York, Boston, Pittsburg Baltimore, Cincinnati, etc, constantly for sale. ColleCtions promptly made on all accessible points in the United States and Canadas. Deposits received, payable on demand, and interest allowed as per agreement. Stocks and Loans bought and sold on commission at the Board of Brokers. Business Paper negotiated. Refer to Philadelphia and Commercial Banks, Phila delphia; Winslow, Lanier & Co., New York; and Citi sena' and Exchange Bank, Pitts. burg. BANKING HOUSE. . GEORGE. J. BOYD, No. 18 S. THIRD ST, PHILADELPHIA, (Two doors below Mechanics' Bank.) DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, 5.20 s 10-40 s, 7-30 s, 6s of 'Si. PETROLEUM, AND ALL OTHER STO 40 -TC. S BONDS, 451 c C. BOUGHT AND SOLD AT THE BOARD OF BROKERS. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. THOMAS RAWLINGS, Jr.; Broad aid Spring Garden Streets. W. G. BEDFORD, CONVEYANCER AND REAL ESTATE AGERT No. 53 NORTH TENTH STREET. PHLADA. My central location and the many means of com munication with the. suburbs enable me to-take the Agency for sale and care of Real Estite. the Collec tion.of Interests. gj.Gund aid houserenta in every art of the city. References will. be furnishedwhen desired. - _ • • Yon can make Six Dollars and Filly Cents. Cal/ and examine an invention =gently needed by every body. Or a sample sent free by mail for 60 oents that retails for $6. bY IiriVOLCOTT.I7O Chatham &mare. New York.. ' 1017-1 y . um' 1035 Chestnut Street, Scarf Pins, Sleeve Buttons, and Studs. Shetland, Shaker Flannel, Red Flannel, ,Canton Flannel (very heavy). Np. 824' CHESTNUT STREET CHARLES STOKES E. T TAYLOR, W. J. STOKES. IL L M McCOUOR, ICRAMER dr. ISM. Pittsburg itioixniG HOUSE OF HOUSE ANIS SIGN PAINTER, " DON'T BE FOOLISH." Wil
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