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... wonderful power at work everywhere around you . Let us first see for a moment what kind of tales science has to tell , and how far they are equal to the old fairy tales we all know so well . Who does not remember the tale of the ...
... wonderful power at work everywhere around you . Let us first see for a moment what kind of tales science has to tell , and how far they are equal to the old fairy tales we all know so well . Who does not remember the tale of the ...
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... Wonderful Tra- vellers ' must recollect the man whose sight was so keen that he could hit the eye of a fly sitting on a tree two miles away . But tell me , can you see gas before it is lighted , even when it is coming out of the gas ...
... Wonderful Tra- vellers ' must recollect the man whose sight was so keen that he could hit the eye of a fly sitting on a tree two miles away . But tell me , can you see gas before it is lighted , even when it is coming out of the gas ...
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... wonderful , more magical , and more beautiful in their work , than those of the old fairy tales . They , too , are invisible , and many people live and die without ever seeing them or caring to see them . These people go about with ...
... wonderful , more magical , and more beautiful in their work , than those of the old fairy tales . They , too , are invisible , and many people live and die without ever seeing them or caring to see them . These people go about with ...
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... wonderful work done ? Man does none of it , neither could he stop it if he were to try ; for it is all the work of those invisible forces or fairies whose acquaintance I wish you to make . Day and night , summer and winter , storm or ...
... wonderful work done ? Man does none of it , neither could he stop it if he were to try ; for it is all the work of those invisible forces or fairies whose acquaintance I wish you to make . Day and night , summer and winter , storm or ...
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... wonderful of our forces * or fairies , till the cold wind passed by and chilled the air . Then , when there was no longer so much heat , another invisible force , cohesion , which is always ready and waiting , seized on the tiny ...
... wonderful of our forces * or fairies , till the cold wind passed by and chilled the air . Then , when there was no longer so much heat , another invisible force , cohesion , which is always ready and waiting , seized on the tiny ...
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