Through nature, quicken’d by the solar beam,
Invests each atom with a force supreme,
Directs the cavern’d crystal in its birth,
And frames the mightiest mountains of the earth;
Each leaf and flower by its strong law restrains,
And binds the monarch Man within its mystic chains.
FOOTNOTES:
[170] Treatise on Magnetism, by Sir David Brewster. Cosmos: a Sketch of a Physical description of the Universe; by Alexander Von Humboldt.—Otté’s Translation.
[171] Expérience Electro-Magnétique. par M. Œrsted.—Annales de Chimie, vol. xxii. p. 201. De la Rive, Recherches sur la Distribution de l’Electricité dyn. dans les Corps.—Genève, 1825.