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much more clothe you?" supplying all your necessities 

 for both worlds. 



Yes, just as we may usually see on the best of watches 

 the name of the maker, so may we, if we will, see the 

 private mark of the Creator on the humblest of His works, 

 even as we are trying to do on these little leaves, which 

 measure only half an inch in their length, and half that 

 in their breadth. 



When Apelles, the Greek painter, called on his friend 

 Protogenes, and found him absent from home, he entered 

 the studio, took the pencil which had been kept ready 

 for the master's use, and made one straight line with its 

 point on the unfinished subject. When Protogenes re- 

 turned, he exclaimed, " Apelles of Cos has been here ! " 

 He recognized the artist in the faint line he had left 

 behind. And may we not recognize the hand of the 

 Creator in His handiwork, when we observe the same 

 principle employed in 

 either branch of the 

 natural world ? 



Here are all sorts of 

 leaves awaiting our exa- 

 mination. The Deutzia, 

 from which all the fleshy 

 part has been removed, 

 and, like the beautiful 

 skeleton last examined, 

 with nothing but the 

 framework left. Here, 

 again, we have an ana- Siliceous skeleton of Deutzia. 



lgy> but not as between a plant and an animal, but 

 between a plant and the starry heavens ; for the frame- 

 work of this plant consists of a host of microscopic 

 stellate forms of exquisite beauty, and when this object 



