CHAPTEK X. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



"What a wonderful Workman is God, in miniature as well as in the 

 great ! With the one hand, perhaps, He is making a ring of one hundred 

 thousand miles in diameter to revolve round a planet like Saturn, and 

 with the other is forming a tooth in the ray of a feather of a humming- 

 bird, or a point in the foot of a microscopic insect. When He works in 

 miniature, everything is gilded, polished, and perfect ; but whatever is 

 made by human art, as a needle, etc., when viewed by a microscope, 

 appears rough and coarse and bungling." PALEY. 



'OU will not be surprised at my continued 

 devotion to studies in which the micro- 

 scope is a necessary companion. There 

 is hardly anything that this may not be 

 applied to with widening interest. No 

 one knows what treasures lie mysteriously 

 concealed in the flowers of his garden; 

 nor of the gladness and astonishment which only await 

 a quiet hour and an experienced teacher to bring them 

 to light. Let me give you a striking illustration. 



Some friends, to whom I had promised an eveniug 

 with the instrument, begged that they might be allowed 

 to bring another with them, and I was thus introduced to 

 the stranger, a venerable matron of quite my own age, 

 whose husband had been a well-known character in the 

 literary and scientific world, and who was more especially 



