Observe another group of laws in physics: Variation, in accordance with an exact proportion.
Gravity varies inversely as the square of the distance; heat varies inversely as the square of the distance; light varies inversely as the square of the distance, and sound varies also in exactly the same ratio.
Who can contemplate this exact mathematical arrangement, extending through many departments of matter, without concluding that “Nature is but the name for an effect whose cause is God?”
THE EYES BUSY ON THINGS ABOUT US.
BY JOSEPHINE POLLARD.
A distinguished writer has said: “The eyes are of no use without the observing power,” and surely no faculty we possess is capable of so much cultivation as the sight. The facility with which the eye can express the emotions of the soul has been the theme of poets of all ages, who have not hesitated to confess which style of eyes pleased them the most. Says one:
“I everywhere am thinking