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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
170
In
consequence
of
this
we
should
have
remained
a
very
poor
people.
Without
manufactories
and
industries
we
should
have
had
to
live
chiefly
by
tilling
the
ground,
and
everyone
being
obliged
to
toil
for
daily
bread,
there
would
have
been
much
less
time
or
opportunity
for
anyone
to
study
science,
or
literature,
or
history,
or
to
provide
themselves
with
comforts
and
refinements
of
life.
All
this
then,
those
plants
and
trees
of
the
far-off
ages,
which
seemed
to
lead
such
useless
lives,
have
done
and
are
doing
for
us.
There
are
many
people
in
the
world
who
complain
that
life
is
dull,
that
they
do
not
see
the
use
of
it,
and
that
there
seems
no
work
specially
for
them
to
do.
I
would
advise
such
people,
whether
they
are
grown
up
or
little
children,
to
read
the
story
of
the
plants
which
form
the
coal.
These
saw
no
results
during
their
own
short
existences,
they
only
lived
and
enjoyed
the
bright
sunshine,
and
did
their
work,
and
were
content.
And
now
thousands,
probably
millions,
of
years
after
they
lived
and
died,
England
owes
her
greatness,
and
we
much
of
our
happiness
and
comfort,
to
the
sunbeams
which
those
plants
wove
into
their
lives.
They
burst
forth
again
in
our
fires,
in
our
brilliant
lights,
and
in
our
engines,
and
do
the
greater
part
of
our
work;
teaching
us
"That
nothing
walks
with
aimless
feet
That
not
one
life
shall
be
destroyed,
Or
cast
as
rubbish
to
the
void,
When
God
hath
made
the
pile
complete."
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