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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
112
THE
VOICES
OF
NATURE
AND
HOW
WE
HEAR
THEM
We
have
reached
to-day
the
middle
point
of
our
course,
and
here
we
will
make
a
new
start.
All
the
wonderful
histories
which
we
have
been
studying
in
the
last
five
lectures
have
had
little
or
nothing
to
do
with
living
creatures.
The
sunbeams
would
strike
on
our
earth,
the
air
would
move
restlessly
to
and
fro,
the
water-drops
would
rise
and
fall,
the
valleys
and
ravines
would
still
be
cut
out
by
rivers
,
if
there
were
no
such
thing
as
life
upon
the
earth.
But
without
living
things
there
could
be
none
of
the
beauty
which
these
changes
bring
about.
Without
plants,
the
sunbeams,
the
air
and
the
water
would
be
quite
unable
to
clothe
the
bare
rocks,
and
without
animals
and
man
they
could
not
produce
light,
or
sound,
or
feeling
of
any
kind.
In
the
next
five
lectures,
however,
we
are
going
to
learn
something
of
the
use
living
creatures
make
of
the
earth;
and
to-
day
we
will
begin
by
studying
one
of
the
ways
in
which
we
are
affected
by
the
changes
of
nature,
and
hear
her
voice.
We
are
all
so
accustomed
to
trust
to
our
sight
to
guide
us
in
most
of
our
actions,
and
to
think
of
things
as
we
see
them,
that
we
often
forget
how
very
much
we
owe
to
sound.
And
yet
Nature
speaks
to
us
so
much
by
her
gentle,
her
touching,
or
her
awful
sounds,
that
the
life
of
a
deaf
person
is
even
more
hard
to
bear
than
that
of
a
blind
one.
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