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a wonderful physical miracle, only to be interpreted by 

 the patient worker. 



We are tempted to exclaim in the words of the magic song, 

 where Mephistopheles draws wine out of the table in Auer- 

 bach's cellar : — 



Wine is grapes and grapes are wood, 

 The wooden board yields wine as good. 

 It is but a deeper glance 

 Into Nature's countenance. 

 All is plain to him who saith, 

 "Lift the veil and look beneath, 

 And behold," the wise man saith, 

 " Miracles if you have faith." 



The rapt seer, looking over the broad field, exclaimed: 

 "Animate and inanimate creation are mountainous and 

 glittering with them. Down into the regions of the in- 

 finitely small, whither only the most searching microscopes 

 carry the sight; up into the regions of the infinitely large, 

 whither only mightiest telescopes lift our struggling vision; 

 among the mechanisms of the atomic hosts that people 

 a single leaf and among the mechanisms of those swarming 

 celestial empires whose starry banners sweep our mighty 

 skies, it is everywhere the same" — exquisite adaptations 

 crowding exquisite adaptations; means so exquisitely 

 adapted to the end that every part stands in the most per- 

 fect balance and adjustment to the other. What more per- 

 fect illustration of this correlation of parts can be pre- 

 sented than in the family of the Vandece, where the related 

 positions and shapes of the parts — the friction, viscidity, 

 elastic and hygrometric movements, all nicely related to 

 one another — come into play. Yet all these appliances are 

 subordinated to the aid of insects; for when the retreating 



