Excerpt from Chemistry of the Four Seasons; Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter: An Essay Principally Concerning Natural Phenomena Admitting of Interpretation by Chemical Science; Illustrating Passages of Scripture; And Exemplifying the Wisdom and Beneficence of God Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know Him that is; neither by considering the works ao knowledge the Workmaster. But deemed either fire or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven to be the gods which govern the world, with whosethem know how much better the Lord of them is, for the First Author of Beauty hath created them all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.