228 THE MAEVEL OF INSECT LIFE. 



At last a Scotch mathematician named Maclaurin be- 

 thought himself of investigating the mathematical table 

 as well as the bee-cell, and found that in those tables by 

 which astronomers had calculated the courses of the 

 heavenly bodies, and the navigators directed the track of 

 their ships, there was a mistake of a single figure. This 

 single error was sufficient to invalidate all preceding astro- 

 nomical predictions, and to wreck the vessels that were 

 guided by them. 



So here we are brought face to face with the fact that 

 the Creator knows no distinction between small and 

 great. 



" He made the atom and He made the universe, 

 And both are equal both are infinite." 



BAILEY. 



He employs one and the same means to rule the 

 incalculable vastness of the universe, and to take care 

 that nothing be wasted on this little orb of earth, not 

 even a grain of honey in the cell of a bee. 



