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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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There
is
only
one
gift
we
must
have
before
we
can
learn
to
know
them
-
we
must
have
imagination.
I
do
not
mean
mere
fancy,
which
creates
unreal
images
and
impossible
monsters,
but
imagination,
the
power
of
making
pictures
or
images
in
our
mind,
of
that
which
is,
though
it
is
invisible
to
us.
Most
children
have
this
glorious
gift,
and
love
to
picture
to
themselves
all
that
is
told
them,
and
to
hear
the
same
tale
over
and
over
again
till
they
see
every
bit
of
it
as
if
it
were
real.
This
is
why
they
are
sure
to
love
science
it
its
tales
are
told
them
aright;
and
I,
for
one,
hope
the
day
may
never
come
when
we
may
lose
that
childish
clearness
of
vision,
which
enables
us
through
the
temporal
things
which
are
seen,
to
realize
those
eternal
truths
which
are
unseen.
If
you
have
this
gift
of
imagination
come
with
me,
and
in
these
lectures
we
will
look
for
the
invisible
fairies
of
nature.
Watch
a
shower
of
rain.
Where
do
the
drops
come
from?
and
why
are
they
round,
or
rather
slightly
oval?
In
our
fourth
lecture
we
shall
se
that
the
little
particles
of
water
of
which
the
raindrops
are
made,
were
held
apart
and
invisible
in
the
air
by
heat,
one
of
the
most
wonderful
of
our
forces*
or
fairies,
till
the
cold
wind
passed
by
and
chilled
the
air.
Then,
when
there
was
no
longer
so
much
heat,
another
invisible
force,
cohesion,
which
is
always
ready
and
waiting,
seized
on
the
tiny
particles
at
once,
and
locked
them
together
in
a
drop,
the
closest
form
in
which
they
could
lie.
Then
as
the
drops
became
larger
and
larger
they
fell
into
the
grasp
of
another
invisible
force,
gravitation,
which
dragged
them
down
to
the
earth,
drop
by
drop,
till
they
made
a
shower
of
rain.
Pause
for
a
moment
and
think.
You
have
surely
heard
of
gravitation,
by
which
the
sun
holds
the
earth
and
the
planets,
and
keeps
them
moving
round
him
in
regular
order?
Well,
it
is
this
same
gravitation
which
is
a
t
work
also
whenever
a
shower
of
rain
falls
to
the
earth.
Who
can
say
that
he
is
not
a
great
invisible
giant,
always
silently
and
invisibly
toiling
in
great
things
and
small
whether
we
wake
or
sleep?
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