in a pythagorean mode

Light reveals the glories of the external world 
and yet is the most glorious of them all. 
It gives beauty, reveals beauty and is itself most beautiful. 
It is the analyzer, the truth-teller and the exposer of shams, 
for it shows things as they are.
Its infinite streams measure off the universe
 and flow into our telescopes from stars 
which are quintillions of miles distant. 
On the other hand 
it descends to objects inconceivably small, 
and reveals through the microscope objects
 fifty millions of times less than
 can be seen by the naked eye. 
Like all other fine forces, its movement is wonderfully soft, 
yet penetrating and powerful. 
Without its vivifying influence,
 vegetable, animal, and human life 
must immediately perish from the earth, 
and general ruin take place. 
We shall do well, then, to consider 
this potential and beautiful principle of light and its component colors, 
for the more deeply we penetrate into its inner laws, 
the more will it present itself 
as a marvelous storehouse of power to vitalize, 
heal, refine, and delight mankind.




                                       Edwin D. Babbitt










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