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him to turn astern, and retreat tail-first into his 
hole as easily as he could go head-first. 
When we contemplate this grotesque and 
strangely-formed little creature, and see how 
wisely and wonderfully it is fashioned and adapted 
to its destined place, supplying another missing 
link in the great chain of Nature, we canuot but 
feel God’s power and omnipresence. Feeding in 
the dark and living in the dark, eyes would have 
been superfluous; sound, save from vibration in 
the earth, or when hunting at the open cuttings, 
would seldom reach this tiny hermit; hence the 
hearing organs have no external appendage for 
catching sounds, and are but in a rudimentary 
form. Hands fashioned into marvellous digging- 
tools, and hind-feet turned into scrapers, for 
getting rid of the rubble dug out with the hands, 
and nose possessing smell and touch in their 
most exquisite forms, these serve him for guides 
of unerring certainty and undeviating precision 
through his darksome wanderings. 
