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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
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This
is
no
fancy
tale;
it
is
literally
true,
as
we
shall
see
in
Lecture
VIII,
that
the
warmth
of
a
coal
fire
could
not
exist
if
the
plants
of
long
ago
had
not
used
the
sunbeams
to
make
their
leaves,
holding
them
ready
to
give
up
their
warmth
again
whenever
those
crushed
leaves
are
consumed.
Now,
do
you
believe
in,
and
care
for,
my
fairy-land?
Can
you
see
in
your
imagination
fairy
'Cohesion'
ever
ready
to
lock
atoms
together
when
they
draw
very
near
to
each
other:
or
fairy
'Gravitation'
dragging
rain-drops
down
to
the
earth:
or
the
fairy
of
'Crystallization'
building
up
the
snow-flakes
in
the
clouds?
Can
you
picture
tiny
sunbeam-waves
of
light
and
heat
travelling
from
the
sun
to
the
earth?
Do
you
care
to
know
how
another
strange
fairy,
'Electricity,'
flings
the
lightning
across
the
sky
and
causes
the
rumbling
thunder?
Would
you
like
to
learn
how
the
sun
makes
pictures
of
the
world
on
which
he
shines,
so
that
we
can
carry
about
with
us
photographs
or
sun-pictures
of
all
the
beautiful
scenery
of
the
earth?
And
have
you
any
curiosity
about
'Chemical
action,'
which
works
such
wonders
in
air,
and
land,
and
sea?
If
you
have
any
wish
to
know
and
make
friends
of
these
invisible
forces,
the
next
question
is
How
are
you
to
enter
the
fairy-land
of
science?
There
is
but
one
way.
Like
the
knight
or
peasant
in
the
fairy
tales,
you
must
open
you
eyes.
There
is
no
lack
of
objects,
everything
around
you
will
tell
some
history
if
touched
with
the
fairy
wand
of
imagination.
I
have
often
thought,
when
seeing
some
sickly
child
drawn
along
the
street,
lying
on
its
back
while
other
children
romp
and
play,
how
much
happiness
might
be
given
to
sick
children
at
home
or
in
hospitals,
if
only
they
were
told
the
stories
which
lie
hidden
in
the
things
around
them.
They
need
not
even
move
from
their
beds,
for
sunbeams
can
fall
on
them
there,
and
in
a
sunbeam
there
are
stories
enough
to
occupy
a
month.
The
fire
in
the
grate,
the
lamp
by
the
bedside,
the
water
in
the
tumbler,
the
fly
on
the
ceiling
above,
the
flower
in
the
vase
on
the
table,
anything,
everything,
has
its
history,
and
can
reveal
to
us
nature's
invisible
fairies.
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