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newness of life, or speaks of light and of deity then must 

 also this magical permeation reach your spirit, and a rejuven- 

 escence by celestial transubstantiation of the whole man be 

 achieved, and you shall be startled into the regenerate life 

 as deliciously as you awake from a refreshing slumber. 



And does all this laying down of the burdens of weariness, 

 this heavenly awakening and beautiful resurrection to the con- 

 sciousness of the joys of the plane of a higher and renewed 

 life, the sound mind in the sound body, this rhythmical rela- 

 tionship to the world, this rapturous flow of milk and honey, 

 come from the renewed infusorial point ; all from the regener- 

 ated "primordial utricle and cell-nucleus;" all these fine re- 

 sults and stupendous ends from such small details of things ? 

 "We wonder, and ask ourselves, what does 'small' mean in 

 nature ?" The world is a bundle of small details; continents 

 and islands, hills and mountains, are made of small microsco- 

 pic organic remains ; and forests and coal-fields are only accu- 

 mulations of small vegetable cells. " The imagination halts 

 in the attempt to realize these masses of organic life, when 

 we remember that a single chalk-enameled visiting card forms 

 a zoological cabinet of, perhaps, a hundred thousand shells. 

 As Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Herschel introduced us into 

 an infinite world of huge magnitudes; as Columbus, Magel- 

 lan, and their successors first unfolded to us one entire half 

 of the earth, so, in the present day, has Ehrenberg, by his 

 untiring industry, laid open to us a wonderful world of or- 

 ganic life, which small as are the individuals composing it, 

 invisible to the keenest eye when unassisted through the 

 inconceivable activity of development, through the number, 

 vast beyond expression, of single beings, heaps up masses, 

 before which man himself seems insignificant."* The in- 

 organic exists only as a great substratum of the organic, 

 and in the minute mechanism of things, and laws of vitality, 

 alone can be found the philosophy of the world. The sublime 

 brain of Shakspeare was but a congeries of organic points ; 

 and the most minute animal, the Nonas termo, is presided 

 * Schleiden. 



