Among the Forces

Among the Forces

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AMONG THE FORCES

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of THY
hands.--Psalm viii, 6
by
HENRY WHITE WARREN, LL.D.
One of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church Author of
"Recreations in Astronomy," "The Bible in the World's Education," etc.
New York: Eaton & Mains Cincinnati: Curts & Jennings
1898

[Frontispiece: Old Faithful Geyser.]

E. I. W.
Eximia Inter Vires.

CONTENTS
Why Written The Man Who Needed 452,696 Barrels of Water The
Sun's Great Horses Old Sun Help Moon Help More Moon Help Star
Help Help from Insensible Seas The Fairy Gravitation More
Gravitation The Fairy Pulls Great Loads The Fairy Draws Greater
Loads The Fairy Works a Pump Handle The Help of Inertia One Plant
Help Gas Help Natural Affection of Metals Natural Affection Between
Metal and Liquid Natural Affection of Metal and Gas Hint Help
Creations Now in Progress Some Curious Behaviors of Atoms Mobility
of Seeming Solids The Next World to Conquer Our Enjoyment of
Nature's Forces The Matterhorn The Grand Canon of the Colorado
River. The Yellowstone Park Geysers Sea Sculpture The Power of
Vegetable Life Spiritual Dynamics When This World is Not

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Old Faithful Geyser . . . . Frontispiece Breaking Waves Incline at
Mauch Chunk The Head of the Toboggan Slide. The Big Trees The
Matterhorn The Punch Bowl, Yellowstone Geysers. Formation of the
Grotto Geyser Bee-Hive Geyser Pulpit Terrace and Bunsen Peak "The
Breakers," Santa Cruz, Cal. The Work and the Worker, Santa Cruz, Cal.
Yellow Chili Squash in Harness Squash Grown Under Pressure A
Natural Bridge, Santa Cruz, Cal. An Excavated Arch, Santa Cruz, Cal
A Double Natural Arch, Santa Cruz, Cal. A Triple Natural Arch, Santa
Cruz, Cal. Remains of a Quadruple Natural Arch Arch Remains, Side
Wall Broken

AMONG THE FORCES
WHY WRITTEN
Fairies, fays, genii, sprites, etc., were once supposed to be helpful to
some favored men. The stories about these imaginary beings have
always had a fascinating interest. The most famous of these stories
were told at Bagdad in the eleventh century, and were called _The
Arabian Nights' Entertainment_. Then men were said to use all sorts of
obedient powers, sorceries, tricks, and genii to aid them in getting
wealth, fame, and beautiful brides.
But I find the realities of to-day far greater, more useful and interesting,
than the imaginations of the past. The powers at work about us are far
more kindly and powerful than the Slave of the Ring or of the Lamp.
The object of writing this series of papers about applications of powers
to the service of man, their designed king, is manifold. I desire all my
readers to see what marvelous provision the Father has made for his
children in this their nursery and schoolhouse. He has always been
trying to crowd on men more helps and blessings than they were
willing to take. From the first mist that went up from the Garden the

power of steam has been in every drop of water. Yet men carried their
burdens. Since the first storm the swiftness and power of lightning have
been trying to startle man into seeing that in it were speed and force to
carry his thought and himself. But man still plodded and groaned under
loads that might have been lifted by physical forces. I have seen in
many lands men bringing to their houses water from the hills in heavy
stone jars. Gravitation was meant to do that work, and to make it leap
and laugh with pearly spray in every woman's kitchen. The good Father
has offered his all-power on all occasions to all men.
I desire that the works of God should keep their designed relation to
thought. He says, Consider the lilies; look into the heavens; number the
stars; go to the ant; be wise; ask the beasts, the fowl, the fishes; or "talk
even to the earth, and it showeth thee."
Every flower and star, rainbow and insect, was meant to be so
provocative of thought that any man who never saw a human book
might be largely