SCIENCE CAN'T EXPLAIN ANY OF THESE FAMILIAR THINGS.
What sleep is. How an eye sees. What electricity is. How a firefly lights its lamp. How a seed grows into a tree. How a rose makes its perfume. ' Whence the sun gets its heat. Why the compass points to tho north. What makes a bird build its first nest. What causes the sex of a baby or an animal. What happpens when food is oxidised in the system. What change takes place in iron when it is magnetised. What makes rain fall in some plac and not in others. How a bloodhound tracks a man by the smell of his footprints. What makes an apple fall to the ground and not fly off in the air. How a bird can fly in the dark through a forest without hitting the trees. How glands that are identical in Structure secrete absolutely different fluids. Why iron alone, and iron only in particular states, is capable of being magnetised. What happens when two volumes of hydrogen and one of oxygen are combined to form water. The di(Terence between a live man and a dead man. or a live dog and a dead 11 of: in oilier words, what Life
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 139, 31 January 1916, Page 4
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205SCIENCE CAN'T EXPLAIN ANY OF THESE FAMILIAR THINGS. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 139, 31 January 1916, Page 4
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