CEAP A REN. 
INFUSORIAL ANIMALS. 
THE Creator has distributed with marvellous profusion the species 
and individuals of the lower grades of the animal kingdom. He 
seems to have wished to console the silent abysses of the sea and 
at the same time to enliven them by crowding their waters with 
millions, countless millions, of beings which possess a wonderful 
versatility of life. 
The ocean is inhabited by innumerable nations of the infinitely 
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little. This diminutive life would have remained utterly unknown 
to us to this day had we not possessed the microscope—the sixth 
sense of man, as Michelet well called it. The microscope! marvel- 
lous instrument, which penetrates the depths of life as the telescope 
roams in the endless space above us! The knowledge of the in- 
fusoria, without any question, is the most beautiful of the achieve- 
ments of optics. A perfectly new world is revealed to us, a world 
which fills us with astonishment and wonder at the resources of 
creative power. Well says Belon, “There is nothing in the world 
