DROPS OF WATER 



No pursuit in the whole range of learning is more 

 congenial to the human mind than the study of 

 Nature. No one can gaze upon the beauty and 

 complexity of her forms without wishing to dive 

 more deeply into her hidden recesses, and, by in- 

 vestigation, to find out the cause of many won- 

 derful effects constantly brought before the eye. 

 Astronomy may raise our thoughts to the Creator 

 in wonder and astonishment by the magnitude of 

 the stars, and the marvellous wisdom by which 

 they are kept in their course ; but " there are 

 miracles of minuteness as well as of magnitude," 



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