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22, 1860.] Beauty, their touch rouses the germ of every green thing to put forth the life that is in it. They are the presiding genii in nature’s grand chemical laboratory. They set the winds in motion; draw up out of the earth mere watery vapour, which, shaped by those winds into a canopy of cloud, they paint with varying hues. 2em