Nothing Is To Wonderful To Be True.

But Still Try, For Who Knows What Is Possible?

You Will Be Astonished When I Tell You What This Curious Play Of Carbon Amounts To. A Candle Will Burn Some Four, Five, Six, Or Seven Hours. What, Then, Must Be The Daily Amount Of Carbon Going Up Into The Air In The Way Of Carbonic Acid! ... Then What Becomes Of It? Wonderful Is It To Find That The Change Produced By Respiration ... Is The Very Life And Support Of Plants And Vegetables That Grow Upon The Surface Of The Earth.

I ... Express A Wish That You May, In Your Generation, Be Fit To Compare To A Candle; That You May, Like It, Shine As Lights To Those About You; That, In All Your Actions, You May Justify The Beauty Of The Taper By Making Your Deeds Honourable And Effectual In The Discharge Of Your Duty To Your Fellow-men.

I Will Simply Express My Strong Belief, That That Point Of Self-education Which Consists In Teaching The Mind To Resist Its Desires And Inclinations, Until They Are Proved To Be Right, Is The Most Important Of All, Not Only In Things Of Natural Philosophy, But In Every Department Of Dally Life.

It Is The Great Beauty Of Our Science, Chemistry, That Advancement In It, Whether In A Degree Great Or Small, Instead Of Exhausting The Subjects Of Research, Opens The Doors To Further And More Abundant Knowledge, Overflowing With Beauty And Utility.