236 SEASIDE DIVINITY. 



greatest nicety and regularity, bearing on their 

 surfaces above four thousand spines, each spine 

 perfect in itself, and of a complicated structure 

 and having a free movement on its socket. Truly 

 the skill of the great Architect of nature is not 

 less displayed in the construction of a sea-urchin 

 than in the building of a world ! " 



