CHAPTER XIV
HEAT AND LIGHT AS COMPANIONS
"The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun."
136. Most bodies which glow and give out light are hot; the stove
which glows with a warm red is hot and fiery; smoldering wood is black
and lifeless; glowing coals are far hotter than black ones. The
stained-glass window softens and mellows the bright light of the sun,
but it also shuts out some of the warmth of the sun's rays; the shady
side of the street spares our eyes the intense glare of the sun, but
may chill us by the absence of heat. Our illumination, whether it be
oil lamp or gas jet or electric light, carries with it heat; indeed,
so much heat that we refrain from making a light on a warm summer's
night because of the heat which it unavoidably furnishes.
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