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ways, but how little a portion is heard of Hni, but the thunder of 

 His power who can understand?" In the contemplation of the limited 

 portion of the works "which God created and made" that it comes 

 within the bounds of our knowledge or of our capacity in some small 

 degree to comprehend, the mind is lost in admiration, the soul appalled 

 with awful reverence. 



Every one of those minute, and to the eye invisible creatures I have 

 alluded to, which yet again may be gigantic compared with others which 

 even the aids of science will not enable us to discover, has all its 

 internal organization complete, and adapted in the most absolutely 

 perfect way to all its requirements, and is even able, as has been 

 proved, to impart animal heat to the fluid in which it lives. How 

 astonishingly small then must each separate part of each be, all acting 

 in as harmonious co-operation as any of those of the higher orders of 

 earthly being ! Every individual of them too has, so to speak, mental 

 capacities, by which the actions of their bodies are unerringly ordered 

 and directed. Yet, "known unto God are all His works from the 

 beginning of the world," and every separate action of every separate 

 animalcula is known to Him, both before its occurrence, and as after- 

 wards registered, as well as every motion of every vast planet, and the 

 history of each atom of its component parts! 



I conclude my "History of British Butterflies" with , the sentiment 

 and in the words of an old writer, "The Majesty of God appears 

 no less in small than in great, and as it cxceedeth human sense in the 

 immense greatness of the universe, so also doth it in the smallness of 

 the parts thereof. " 



