I had heard that nothing had been observed in ancient times
which could be called by the name of glass--that there had been
merely attempts to imitate it. I thought they had proved the
proposition. They certainly had elaborated it. In Pompeii, a
dozen miles south of Naples, which was covered with ashes by
Vesuvius eighteen hundred years ago, they broke into a room
full of glass; there was ground-glass, window-glass, cut-glass,
and colored-glass of every variety. It was undoubtedly a
glass-maker’s factory. So the lie and refutation came face to
face. It was like a pamphlet printed in London, in 1836, by
Dr. Lardner, which proved that a steamboat could not cross the
ocean; and the book came to this country in the first steamboat
that came across the Atlantic.--WENDELL PHILLIPS.
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=Doing=--See FEEDING, TOO MUCH; SERVICE.