strength let us all hope that those colonies are advancing. It is very hard for a mother country to know when such a time has come; and hard also for the child-colony to recognize justly the period of [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] its own maturity. Whether or no such severance may ever take place without a quarrel, without [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] weakness on one side and pride on the other, is a problem in the world’s history yet to be solved. The most successful child that ever yet has gone off from a successful parent, and taken its own path into the world, is without doubt the nation of the United States. Their present troubles are the [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] result and the proofs of their success. The people that were too [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] great to be dependent on any nation [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] have now spread till they are themselves too great for a single nationality. No one now thinks that that daughter should have remained longer subject to her mother. [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] But the severance was not made in amity, and the shrill notes of the old family quarrel are still sometimes heard across the waters.
From all this the question arises whether that problem may ever be solved with reference to the Canadas. That it will never be their destiny to join themselves to the States of the union, I feel fully convinced. In the first place it is becoming evident from the present circumstances of the union, if it had never been made evident by history before, that different people with different habits, living at long distances from each other, cannot well be brought together on equal terms under one government. [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] That noble ambition of the Americans that all the continent north of the isthmus should be united under one flag, has already been thrown from its saddle. The North and South are virtually separated, and the day will come in which the West also will secede. As population increases and trades arise peculiar to those different climates, the interests of the people will differ, and a new secession will take place beneficial alike to both parties. If this be so, if even there be any tendency this way, it affords the strongest argument again
contains air. Milk and blood, too, are [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] made up of both water and earth, though earth generally predominates in them. So, too, are [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] the liquids out of which natron and salt are formed; and stones are also formed from some mixtures of this kind. Hence, if the whey has not been separated, it burns away if you boil it over a fire. But the earthy element in milk can also be coagulated by the help of fig-juice, if you boil it in a certain way as doctors do when they treat it with fig-juice, and this is how the whey and the cheese are commonly separated. Whey, once separated, does not thicken, as the milk did, but boils away like water. Sometimes, however, there is little or no cheese in milk, and such milk is not nutritive and is more like water. The case of blood is similar: cold dries and so solidifies it. Those kinds of blood that do [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] not solidify, like that of the stag, belong rather to water and are very cold. Hence they contain no fibres: for the fibres are of earth and solid, and blood from which they have been removed does not solidify. This is because it cannot dry; for what remains is water, just as what remains of milk when cheese has been removed is water. The fact that diseased blood will not solidify is evidence of the same thing, for such blood is of the nature of serum and that is phlegm and water, the nature of the animal having failed to get the better of it and digest it.
Some of these bodies are soluble, e.g. natron, some insoluble, e.g. pottery: of the latter, some, like horn, can be softened by heat, others, like pottery and stone, cannot. The reason is that opposite causes have opposite effects: consequently, if solidification is due to two [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] causes, the cold and the dry, solution must be due to the hot and the moist, that is, to fire and to water (these being opposites): water dissolving what was solidified by fire [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] alone, fire what was solidified by cold alone. Consequently, if any things happen to be solidified by the action of both, these are least apt to be soluble. Such a case we find where things have been heated and are then solidified by cold. When the heat in leaving them has caused most of the moisture to evaporate, the cold so compacts these bodies together again as to leave no entrance even for moisture. Therefore heat does not dissolve them (for it only dissolves those bodies that are solidified by cold alone), nor does water (for it does not dissolve what cold solidifies, but only what is solidified by dry heat). But iron [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] is melted by heat and solidified by cold. Wood consists of earth and air and is therefore combustible but cannot be melted or softened by heat. (For [Ссылки могут видеть только зарегистрированные пользователи. ] the same reason it floats in water-all except ebony. This does not, for other kinds of wood contain a preponderance of air, but in black ebony the air has escaped and so earth preponderates in it.) Pottery consists of earth alone because it solidified gradually in the process of drying. Water cannot get into it, for the pores were only large enough to admit of vapour escaping: and seeing that fire solidified it, that cannot
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