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From all thefe oblervations, moft plainly we difcern the incom- 

 prehenfible perfeftion, the exadl order, and the infcrutable provi- 

 dential care with which the moll wile Creator and Lord of the Uni- 

 verle, has formed the bodies of thefe Animalcules, which are fo mi- 

 nute as to efcape our fight, to the end, that the different fpecies of 

 them may be preferved in exillence. And this moll wonderful dif- 

 polition of Nature with regard to thefe Animalcules, for the prefer- 

 vation of their fpecies ; at the fame time that it ftrikes us with allo- 

 nifliment, mull furely convince all of the abfurdity of thofe old opi- 

 nions, that living creatures can be produced from corruption or 

 putrefadlion. 





