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given any one of my hearers a little pleasnre, and if I shall have 
shown that even in the humble plants most of us pass by without 
a glance or without a thought, there is a variety and a beauty of 
structure worthy of the Divine hand that made all things. 
How mysterious it is that in things so small, with so little 
external grace, there should yet be in their most secret parts— 
where, from the beginning of creation till these latter days, the eye 
of man has never pried—so much that is exquisite in design, so 
lavish a profusion of detail, and such fitness and perfection in the 
whole. 
