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honour of God, the highly-gifted Brocks,* has alluded to 

 such people in a trenchant, though short, poem, in order, if 

 possible, to bring them to repentance. 



" Saint John says well, that if a man shall say, 

 • I love the Lord,' and yet shall love his brother not, 

 He is indeed 

 Most worthily 

 A liar called ; 



For he who hates his brother whom he sees. 

 And whom before his eyes for proof has got. 

 How can he then love God, whom he sees not? 



And Nature's book, too, savs, if any say, 



' I honour God,' whom in His works he honoui's not, 



He is indeed 



Most worthily 



A liar called ; 



For he who holds the works of God unfit 



For careful thought, although he sees them plain. 



How can he honour God, whom he sees not ? " 



Truly, the contempt which a man has for the creatiu'e is a 

 clear proof of contempt for the Creator himself: for whosoever 

 shall despise the Master's work, which is wrought out in 

 every part perfect and with excellent wisdom, he despises 

 indeed the Master himself. Let no man advance here the 

 argument that a difference must be made between one creature 

 and another, and that the most despicable need not be 

 regarded. Nothing throughout Nature is low. I say that the 

 great Creator has made nothing which is unworthy of our 

 observation and admiration. Is there a lower object than a 

 grain of sand ? And yet what a wonder-work of the Most 

 High ; for no mortal, however ingenious and powerful he be, 

 can make even that out of nothing. How much rather 

 should we wonder in abasement whenever we attentively 

 observe a despised insect ? A thoughtful mind perceives as 

 much art, wisdom, and might, in the construction of the 

 smallest fly, as in that of the largest elephant ; for it would 

 be more possible (or it would at least seem more easy of 

 comprehension) for a man to make an elephant than to 

 produce a minute animal, such as a fly, and supply it with 

 eyes, mouth, heart, lungs, belly, and other internal and 

 outward parts, and everything else most perfectly prepared. 

 But why do 1 talk of the smallest fly or other insect? The 

 * In his ' Irdisch Vergniigeu in Gott.,' p. 534:, of the fourth Hamb. edition. 



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