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Theories are the mighty soap-bubbles with which the grown-up children of science amuse themselves while the honest vulgar stand gazing in stupid admiration, and dignify these learned vagaries with the name of wisdom!
They crowded into the room, and by using every kind of expansion blowing themselves out like soap-bubbles they succeeded in heaping up the whole room with shade upon shade. They clustered thickest about the fire and the lamp, till at last they almost drowned them in hills of darkness. "Before they had accomplished so much, the children, tired with fun and frolic, had been put to bed.
Islands of coral floated on the sea of absinthe, and derelict clouds of mother-of-pearl swung low above them, starting from nowhere and going nowhere, but drifting beautifully, like giant soap-bubbles of light and color.
They crowded into the room, and by using every kind of expansion blowing themselves out like soap-bubbles, they succeeded in heaping up the whole room with shade upon shade. They clustered thickest about the fire and the lamp, till at last they almost drowned them in hills of darkness. "'Before they had accomplished so much, the children, tired with fun and frolic, were put to bed.
Mazeroux could not get over it. "Chief, you astound me! How calm and careless you look!" "I am calm and careless, Alexandre." "But what do you mean? Doesn't the case interest you? Don't you intend to avenge Mme. Fauville and Sauverand? You are openly accused and you sit here blowing soap-bubbles!" "There's no more delightful pastime, Alexandre." "Shall I tell you what I think, Chief?
Here was a subject which not unnaturally attracted the attention of one who had expounded the colours of the spectrum with such success. He perceived that similar hues were produced by other thin plates of transparent material besides soap-bubbles, and his ingenuity was sufficient to devise a method by which the thicknesses of the different films could be measured.
Again the glowworm flash, and a moment later, over on the left bank, not far from the Luxembourg, apparently, another of those eloquent little puffs of fire. The crowd is as delighted as children would be with bursting soap-bubbles.
And it was made before general acceptance of the division of the ether into soniferous, luminiferous and tangiferous. "'Which in whirls constitutes matter. Professor Lodge believed that 'some etheric molecules revolved so rapidly on their axis that they could not be penetrated. Watch the soap-bubbles that I am blowing. Each and every one is revolving as the earth revolves, from west to east.
No one extending in one direction more than in another could have met the exigencies of creation; and that the universe is a sphere may also be inferred from fluid matter naturally assuming that form, perhaps because its elements have it. Had atoms been bounded by plane surfaces, so, we may suppose, had worlds, drops of water, and soap-bubbles.
And the children inside, waking to go from one sleep into another, hear the low, soft mother-voices on the balcony, talking about this person and that, old times, old friends, old experiences; and it seems to them, hovering a moment in wakefulness, that there is no end of the world or time, or of the mother-knowledge; but, illimitable as it is, the mother-voices and the mother-love and protection fill it all, with their mother's hand in theirs, children are not afraid even of God, and they drift into slumber again, their little dreams taking all kinds of pretty reflections from the great unknown horizon outside, as their fragile soap-bubbles take on reflections from the sun and clouds.
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