Benedicite Or the Song of the Three Children Being Illustrations of the Power
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What feat can be conceived more wonderful than, from a sub- stance so dingy, dirty, and unpromising as coal-tar, to create the beautiful series of aniline colours which we admire as mauve, magenta, solferino, and bleu de Paris. To such perfection, indeed, has chymistry now carried this branch of manufacture, that there is hardly any tint which may not be obtained from coal-tar by skilful treat- ment. Chymistry is a wonderful economist of nature's means, and never shows itself to more advantage ...than when it takes in hand and turns to account the fragments that would otherwise be lost. As the highest praise that could be offered, it may now almost literally be said that chymists have of late years banished such words as " rubbish" and " waste" from the manufactory and the workshop. The vegetable kingdom, although it consists of a great variety of forms, tissues, and products, is essentially built up out of a very few ultimate elements. Whole classes of products consist merely of carbon and hydrogen ; and, 202 POWERS OF THE LORD.
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