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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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From
benzoline,
again,
we
get
a
liquid
called
aniline,
from
which
are
made
so
many
of
our
beautiful
dyes
-
mauve,
magenta,
and
violet;
and
what
is
still
more
curious,
the
bitter
almonds,
pear-
drops,
and
many
other
sweets
which
children
like
to
well,
are
actually
flavoured
by
essences
which
come
out
of
coal-tar.
Thus
from
coal
we
get
not
only
nearly
all
our
heat
and
our
light,
but
beautiful
colours
and
pleasant
flavours.
We
spoke
just
now
of
the
plants
of
the
coal
as
being
without
beautiful
flowers,
and
yet
we
see
that
long,
long
after
their
death
they
give
us
lovely
colours
and
tints
as
beautiful
as
any
in
flower-world
now.
Think,
then,
how
much
we
owe
to
these
plants
which
lived
and
died
so
long
ago!
If
they
had
been
able
to
reason,
perhaps
they
might
have
said
that
they
did
not
seem
of
much
use
in
the
world.
They
had
no
pretty
flowers,
and
there
was
no
one
to
admire
their
beautiful
green
foliage
except
a
few
croaking
reptiles,
and
little
crickets
and
grasshoppers;
and
they
lived
and
died
all
on
one
spot,
generation
after
generation,
without
seeming
to
do
much
good
to
anything
or
anybody.
Then
they
were
covered
up
and
put
out
of
sight,
and
down
in
the
dark
earth
they
were
pressed
all
out
of
shape
and
lost
their
beauty
and
became
only
black,
hard
coal.
There
they
lay
for
centuries
and
centuries,
and
thousands
and
thousands
of
years,
and
still
no
one
seemed
to
want
them.
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