THE MICROSCOPE. 



mind is lost in astonishment at that power which 

 has brought such things to pass. The reflective 

 mind experiences great delight in the investiga- 

 tion of those minute objects, which to the unas- 

 sisted eye are invisible, but which, by the aid of a 

 good microscope, may be studied at ease ; our 

 curiosity, however, is never satisfied, for, though 

 by magnifying an object we find wonders re- 

 vealed which before were hidden, we know that 

 if our glasses were of a still higher power, we 

 should discover more of the mechanism, and find 

 out the use of many parts, that without this in- 

 creased aid would remain in uncertainty. As 

 our microscopes will probably never be made 

 sufficiently powerful to show clearly all the 

 minute creatures contained in water, we shall 



