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with reverent and delicate appreciation, the mystery and 

 miracle of God's work in nature. ' I am confident,' he 

 says in concluding a description of the sea-urchin, ' that 

 there is not half the ingenuity, or half the mathematical 

 knowledge, displayed in the dome of St Peter's at Rome 

 or St Paul's at London, that we find exhibited in the 

 construction of this simple shell.' It is not without 

 interest that we note a like impression made by an 

 examination of the same animal upon the mind of Ed- 

 ward Forbes. ' The skill of the Great Architect of 

 Nature,' observes that celebrated naturalist, c is not less 

 displayed in the construction of a sea-urchin than in the 

 building up of a world.' 



