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how it reveals its secrets to men? Go upon yonder mountain
ridge in early June dawn when the great orb of day shoots his
first beams across the neighboring ridges and reveals to you a
panorama of natural scenery so grand, so beautiful, so entrancing
that you are transported to the land of the gods pictured in the en
chanting rhythm of poets. Would you know more of that wonder
ful sun, whose subtle and mysterious power can, as the magic
wand of a mighty conjurer, call all Nature into activity or soothe
all Nature into repose—whose rays can change, like the touch of
fairy fingers, the tiny waterdrop to the brilliant, sparkling dia
mond, and the rippling mountain streamlet into the ribbon of
silver would you kno’ more of that glorious sun? Ask
astronomy!
Note the changing contour of the surface! See the mountain
with its ponderous bowlders and rocks; its steep cliffs and rugged
ledges; its shady glens and secluded dells; its sparkling springs
and rippling fountains; its babbling brooklets, changed by a
shower into roaring torrents! See the valley, with its varied soil
and undulating surface; with its creeks and watersheds —would
you know more of all this? Yes! Would you read, from pages of
rock printed in letters of fossil, the whole history of earth ? Go to
geology!
Would you know the composition—the constituent elements of
the rocks, the soil, the air, the water —everything you see about
you ? Consult chemistry.
Would you learn of the beautiful insects, whose gaudy wings
flash in the sunlight like dewdrops; of the butterfly, whose flit
ting life is naught but pleasure; of pretty birds, whose lovely
caroling and warbling form the symphonious overture to the
opening day by Nature’s sweet-toned orchestra —would you learn
more of these ? Ask entomology and ornothology!
Would you know why you, as a human being, gifted with in
telligence and reason, can comprehend and appreciate the many,
many things you see about you ? Why you see, hear, feel, and
have senses from which you derive pleasures of a keener kind
than is possible to the lower animals—would you know all this ?
Ask psychology.
Anything, everything you wish to know, ask of the chapter to
which it belongs, in this wonderful book. I say ash! But, will
it always answer ? Can we find the answer to everything we wish
to learn? No! No, we cannot find the answer to everything we
Unseal The Book.