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Article APPOINTMENT OF GRAND OFFICERS. ← Page 4 of 4 Article THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON. THINGS. Page 1 of 9 →
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Appointment Of Grand Officers.
Master , to be active in the discharge of his duties ; we believe his executive to be composed of able men , zealous , and attentive to our interests . We do not undertake to endorse all their proceedings ; but maintaining our perfect indepen den ce , will support theni so long as we bejieve them to be right—we will never lend ourselves , or the power at our disposal , to the dissemination of offensive or unfounded attacks upon the character of any man . By pursuing this course ,, we shall endeavour to deserve , and we believe that we shall receive , the combined and even increased support of our Brethren abroad as well as at home .
The Chemistry Of Common. Things.
THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON . THINGS .
; . __ : . BY FRA-KCIS HENRY BAKER . " 11 .--HEAT . ' ' ;
The effects of heat are so intimately interwoven , not / only with all the processes-nand operations of chemistry , but with all the changes which surround us in our daily life , that a consideration of the chemistry of common things can be but imperfectly entered into , without a previous knowledge of the most important of its laws and properties . Whether it be regarded as a separate and independent fluid , or a peculiar form , or merely a property of some other body—heat pervades all space , and manifests , or may be made to manifest , itself
everywhere . We see its effects in the raising of vapour from the ocean , in the formation of clouds and dew , in the , rainfall and the storra , in tlie sustenance and invigoration of animal and vegetable life ; ancl indeed in every other change that occurs in the natural world it takes an active part . The human body is very sensitive to its effects ; a trifling excess or defect of its natural proportion occasions discomfort . Take away but a small part of its natural quantity , and we feel that it is indispensable—give us too great a measure , and we become sensible of its power .
But the effects of heat are not less powerful than they are universal . When we regard them in the steam engine or the gunpowder explosion , the conflagration or the earthquake , heat appears to be the most powerful agent in nature , both in mechanical , chemical , destructive , and artificial effects . Of all the natural powers , we know least of its nature ; its effects are apparently the most varied , universal , and powerful , its properties the most complicated and inexplicableand yet ii is the most easily controlled and rendered subservient to the wants and caprices of mankind ; though it is the most terrible , and its consequences the most difficult to avert , when it obtains the rn aster y ,
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Appointment Of Grand Officers.
Master , to be active in the discharge of his duties ; we believe his executive to be composed of able men , zealous , and attentive to our interests . We do not undertake to endorse all their proceedings ; but maintaining our perfect indepen den ce , will support theni so long as we bejieve them to be right—we will never lend ourselves , or the power at our disposal , to the dissemination of offensive or unfounded attacks upon the character of any man . By pursuing this course ,, we shall endeavour to deserve , and we believe that we shall receive , the combined and even increased support of our Brethren abroad as well as at home .
The Chemistry Of Common. Things.
THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON . THINGS .
; . __ : . BY FRA-KCIS HENRY BAKER . " 11 .--HEAT . ' ' ;
The effects of heat are so intimately interwoven , not / only with all the processes-nand operations of chemistry , but with all the changes which surround us in our daily life , that a consideration of the chemistry of common things can be but imperfectly entered into , without a previous knowledge of the most important of its laws and properties . Whether it be regarded as a separate and independent fluid , or a peculiar form , or merely a property of some other body—heat pervades all space , and manifests , or may be made to manifest , itself
everywhere . We see its effects in the raising of vapour from the ocean , in the formation of clouds and dew , in the , rainfall and the storra , in tlie sustenance and invigoration of animal and vegetable life ; ancl indeed in every other change that occurs in the natural world it takes an active part . The human body is very sensitive to its effects ; a trifling excess or defect of its natural proportion occasions discomfort . Take away but a small part of its natural quantity , and we feel that it is indispensable—give us too great a measure , and we become sensible of its power .
But the effects of heat are not less powerful than they are universal . When we regard them in the steam engine or the gunpowder explosion , the conflagration or the earthquake , heat appears to be the most powerful agent in nature , both in mechanical , chemical , destructive , and artificial effects . Of all the natural powers , we know least of its nature ; its effects are apparently the most varied , universal , and powerful , its properties the most complicated and inexplicableand yet ii is the most easily controlled and rendered subservient to the wants and caprices of mankind ; though it is the most terrible , and its consequences the most difficult to avert , when it obtains the rn aster y ,