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this truth by tedious arguments , for all classes are at last aroused to see the benefits of education . Education is preached in our pulpits , the middle classes are talking French behind the counter , and working out equations at the desk ; while we , with less wits , are pondering

over papers on " self-education , " in Westminster and other Heviews , and wondering how long it will be , should the present mania continue , before our housemaids read Greek plays . Such hothouse education as this we do not advocate , as honesty in housemaids , with common knowledge , and not that common ignorance which they

generally possess , is virtue superior to Greek , conic sections , and astronomy . However , none should be deprived of a familiar acquaintance with the wonders of this world in which we live . The kingdoms of creation are many , and the study of our own body , with its veins , arteries , bones , nerves , and muscle , is sufficient to show that the subject is exhaustless , and those most versed in chemical phenomena are still but babes in knowledge .

Dr . Fownes has classified chemical elements m sixty-two parts , and they have been arranged by Ellis , for the sake of convenience , under the following heads : —1 , gases ; 2 , fluids ; 3 , solids . The last are metallic , the second non-metallic , and the first gaseous . The four primary gases , it may be necessary to observe , are hydrogen , oxygen , nitrogen , and chlorine . Four-fifths of the air we breathe consists of nitrogen , one-fifth is oxygen ; and there are other properties , as ammonia , carbonic acid , and carburetted hydrogen , which go

to supply the wants of man and vegetation . Carbonic acid gas , required by vegetation , is very heavy , and is the air which is expelled from our lungs , which , when mingled with pure air , we breathe again . Hydrogen is a light gas , and a bladder filled with it would rise up ,

and float about the ceiling of the room . When unmmgled with air , it burns with a pure flame ; when mingled with air , it goes off with a report . There is a great deal of hydrogen in water , which is an oxide of hydrogen . Place oxygen and Irydrogen in a jar together , and apply to them the flame of a candle , the result will be a loud explosion , and within the jar there will be no longer air , but drops of

water , — -water being composed of these two gases , in the proportion of eight parts oxygen to one part hydrogen . We might have chosen to confine ourselves especially to the chemistry of the air , did not several inviting little books bid us turn our attention to the ocean , and the wonders of the sea-shore . What a

mighty element is that sea of waters , ever rolling over giant rocks its mighty waves , that die away in the distance , mingled with blue sky , a silver line of light . Looking at that unfathomable mass , thousands of feet deep , who is not led , with feelings of emotion and awe , to remember , " The sea is His , and He made it . " What a contrast is there between that great ocean , and idlers who

throng its shores ,- —both how restless ; but one fulfilling the laws of God , the other drawling out existence . Thus , days at the sea-side have become , as Kingsley says , in his Glaucus ,- —¦ " a lifc-in-dcath , in which thousands spend the golden weeks of summer . " But novels

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LODGES IN THE WEST AND SOUTH, CANADA, MALTA, TRINIDAD-OUR DUTY. Article 1
FREEMASONRY IN GREAT BRITAIN. Article 7
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BALAKLAVA. Article 11
THE WONDERS OF NATURE. Article 14
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS. Article 19
FACES IN THE EIRE. Article 25
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 26
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZIN AND MASONIC MIRROR. Article 27
MASONIC CHARITIES. Article 29
NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 30
FINE ARTS. Article 30
THE MASONIC MIRROR. MASONIC REFORM Article 31
NOTICES OF MOTION. Article 36
THE BOYS' SCHOOL. Article 37
METROPOLITAN. Article 41
INSTRUCTION. Article 47
PROVINCIAL. Article 47
ROYAL ARCH. Article 54
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 55
SCOTLAND. Article 56
COLONIAL. Article 60
SWITZERLAND. Article 62
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR MARCH. Article 62
Obituary. Article 65
NOTICE. Article 68
TO COEEESPONDENTS. Article 68
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this truth by tedious arguments , for all classes are at last aroused to see the benefits of education . Education is preached in our pulpits , the middle classes are talking French behind the counter , and working out equations at the desk ; while we , with less wits , are pondering

over papers on " self-education , " in Westminster and other Heviews , and wondering how long it will be , should the present mania continue , before our housemaids read Greek plays . Such hothouse education as this we do not advocate , as honesty in housemaids , with common knowledge , and not that common ignorance which they

generally possess , is virtue superior to Greek , conic sections , and astronomy . However , none should be deprived of a familiar acquaintance with the wonders of this world in which we live . The kingdoms of creation are many , and the study of our own body , with its veins , arteries , bones , nerves , and muscle , is sufficient to show that the subject is exhaustless , and those most versed in chemical phenomena are still but babes in knowledge .

Dr . Fownes has classified chemical elements m sixty-two parts , and they have been arranged by Ellis , for the sake of convenience , under the following heads : —1 , gases ; 2 , fluids ; 3 , solids . The last are metallic , the second non-metallic , and the first gaseous . The four primary gases , it may be necessary to observe , are hydrogen , oxygen , nitrogen , and chlorine . Four-fifths of the air we breathe consists of nitrogen , one-fifth is oxygen ; and there are other properties , as ammonia , carbonic acid , and carburetted hydrogen , which go

to supply the wants of man and vegetation . Carbonic acid gas , required by vegetation , is very heavy , and is the air which is expelled from our lungs , which , when mingled with pure air , we breathe again . Hydrogen is a light gas , and a bladder filled with it would rise up ,

and float about the ceiling of the room . When unmmgled with air , it burns with a pure flame ; when mingled with air , it goes off with a report . There is a great deal of hydrogen in water , which is an oxide of hydrogen . Place oxygen and Irydrogen in a jar together , and apply to them the flame of a candle , the result will be a loud explosion , and within the jar there will be no longer air , but drops of

water , — -water being composed of these two gases , in the proportion of eight parts oxygen to one part hydrogen . We might have chosen to confine ourselves especially to the chemistry of the air , did not several inviting little books bid us turn our attention to the ocean , and the wonders of the sea-shore . What a

mighty element is that sea of waters , ever rolling over giant rocks its mighty waves , that die away in the distance , mingled with blue sky , a silver line of light . Looking at that unfathomable mass , thousands of feet deep , who is not led , with feelings of emotion and awe , to remember , " The sea is His , and He made it . " What a contrast is there between that great ocean , and idlers who

throng its shores ,- —both how restless ; but one fulfilling the laws of God , the other drawling out existence . Thus , days at the sea-side have become , as Kingsley says , in his Glaucus ,- —¦ " a lifc-in-dcath , in which thousands spend the golden weeks of summer . " But novels

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