26 PERFECTION IN MINUTENESS. 



that meets the eye there are multitudes of these tiny creatures, 

 living, as it were, in a world of their own, though equally cared 

 for by Him to whom there is neither great nor small. In view 

 of these facts, we may well say with one of the most eminent of 

 living philosophers, "If the astronomer be led from the con- 

 templation of the countless orbs that traverse boundless space, to 

 the adoration of the Creator in His almightiness, so the observa- 

 tion of the perfection of His minutest works, which, though 

 invisible to ordinary ken, unfold new perfections with every 

 increased power of observing them, ought to impress us with a 

 lively sense of that all-caring-for and all-seeing Providence with- 

 out whom not a sparrow falls to the ground, and by whom every 

 hair of the head is numbered." 



