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40 calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."

Professor Fairbairn says in his book on Iron, that a very slight acquaintance with natural science will exhibit the wisdom of a bountiful Creator, in the wide diffusion and abundant supply of iron and coal, two of the greatest boons conferred upon the human race. If we refer to the history of the past, and trace the change from barbarism to a state of intellectual culture, we shall see at every step the contrivances and appliances of the "cunning workers in iron." These have always been the associates of mental progress and the forerunners to supply to the wants and necessities of our social existence. Iron, on account of its abundance,