By whose power were the meanest creatures formed? By whose will do 

 they live? Know that He who in the beginning created the heaven and 

 the earth, said, ' Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his 

 kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind, and 

 it was so.' Is it then to be considered as a degrading employment for 

 men to examine those creatures which were formed by God ?'' Fleming. 



It is evident that the general tendency of the study is to lead us from the 

 admiration of the works, to the contemplation of their Author ; to teach 

 us to look through Nature up to Nature's God. It is a study which 

 terminates in the conviction, the knowledge and the adoration of that 

 Being, to whom we owe every thing that we enjoy." Bingley. 



