110 THE THOUSANDTH PART NOT TOLD. 



But for the atmosphere, sunshine would burst on us 

 in a moment and fail us in the twinkling of an eye, 

 removing us in an instant from midnight darkness 

 to the blaze of noon." 



We have written a good deal on this subject, yet 

 the thousandth part has not been told of even the 

 grand and more obvious operations of the atmos- 

 phere, much less the actions and results of its minor 

 and invisible processes. Were we to descend with 

 philosophers into the minuter laboratories of the 

 world, and consider the permeating, ramifying, subtle 

 part the atmosphere plays in the innumerable trans- 

 formations that are perpetually going on around 

 and within us, we should be constrained to feel 

 more deeply than we have ever yet felt, that the 

 works of the Creator are indeed wonderful beyond 

 all expression or conception. 



