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pincers, needles, glass slides and cells, etc., etc., which we can not 

 now describe. If any one should wish to pursue this subject far- 

 ther, and obtain full instruction in regard to the structure and man- 

 agement of microscopes, let him read the excellent works of 

 Carpenter & Quekett. 



There are two manufacturers of first class instruments in this 

 country, viz. Spencer, of Canastota, New York, and Grunow, of 

 New Haven, Conn. In Europe there are three firms where the very 

 best instruments can be obtained, viz. Powell & Lelands, Smith 

 & Beck, and Ross — all of London. Until Spencer commenced 

 his labors, these three had no rivals in the world, and for general 

 perfection of the instrument in all its parts and adjuncts, they have 

 never been surpassed. The instrument we have chosen, is from the 

 firm of Messrs Smith & Beck, and we hope in future numbers to 

 give an account of researches made with it among minute organ- 

 isms. 



" TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS "—HUGH MILLER. * 



*' The apotheosis of error is the greatest evil of all ; and when 

 folly is worshiped, it is as it were a plague spot on the understand- 

 ing. Yet some of the moderns have indulged this folly with such 

 consummate inconsiderateness that they have endeavored to build a 

 system of natural philosophy on the first chapter of Genesis, the 

 book of Job, and other parts of Scripture ; seeking thus the dead 

 among the living. And this folly is the more to be prevented and 

 restrained because not only fantastical philosophy, hut also an her- 

 etical religion spring from the absurd mixture of matters divine and 

 human. It is therefore most wise soberly to render unto Faith the 

 things that are FaifJiS.^' 



Some three hundred years have come and gone, since Lord Bacon, 

 in his " Novum Organum," proclaimed the foregoing as characteristic 

 of the philosophy of those whom he designated as " moderns." — 



* The Testimony of The Rocks ; Or Geolop;y in its Benrin3;s on the Two Theologies, 

 Natural and Revealed. By Hugh Miller, author of " The Old Red Sandstone," Foot- 

 prints of the Creator," etc., Gould & Lincoln, Boston ; Geo. S. Blanchard, Cin- 

 cinnati, 1857. 



