Memories of Old Friends Being Extracts From the Journals of Caroline Fox of Pe
Memories of Old Friends Being Extracts From the Journals of Caroline Fox of Pe
Fox, Caroline, 1819-1871
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86 JOURNALS OF CAROLINE FOX. 1839. In the investigations of physical science, he re- marked, " Shall we who are endowed by a gracious Creator with power and intelligence, and a capacity to use them — shall we sit lazily down and say, Our God has indeed given us eyes, but we will not see with them ; reason and intelligence, but we will ex- ert neither? Is this our gratitude to our Maker for some of His choicest gifts, and not rather a stupid indifference most displeasing in His sight?" He made s...ome good allusions to Sir Charles Lemon's mining school, and mentioned the frequent evidence of the fact that barbarians of all nations (no allu- sion to Sir C. L. Or Cornish miners) have hit on similar expedients for supplying their necessities ; the old Celtic arms, for instance, are of precisely the same form as the axes and hatchets contrived by the New Zealanders. Speaking of the immense real value of iron, he remarked, ''What a fortune for a man, cast into a country where iron was unknown, would the bent nail from the broken shoe of a lame donkey be !
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