Nothing Tends So Much To The Advancement

In The Present State Of Our Knowledge, It Would Be Useless To Attempt To Speculate On The Remote Cause Of The Electrical Energy... Its Relation To Chemical Affinity Is, However, Sufficiently Evident. May It Not Be Identical With It, And An Essential Property Of Matter?

We Can Trace Back Our Existence Almost To A Point. Former Time Presents Us With Trains Of Thoughts Gradually Diminishing To Nothing. But Our Ideas Of Futurity Are Perpetually Expanding. Our Desires And Our Hopes, Even When Modified By Our Fears, Seem To Grasp At Immensity. This Alone Would Be Sufficient To Prove The Progressiveness Of Our Nature, And That This Little Earth Is But A Point From Which We Start Toward A Perfection Of Being.

What Is Politeness In The Home But The Outcome Of Affection And Self-respect, And The Suppression Of All Those Natural Instincts Of Self-seeking That, Allowed Their Way, Produce The Worst Manners In The World?

James Watt Was Equally Distinguished As A Natural Philosopher And Chemist; His Inventions Demonstrate His Profound Knowledge Of Those Sciences, And That Peculiar Characteristic Of Genius - The Union Of Them For Practical Application.

When Two Elements Combine And Form More Than One Compound, The Masses Of One Element That React With A Fixed Mass Of The Other Are In The Ratio Of Small Whole Numbers.