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powers. Thus in all, and from all, creatures 

 around us, the instrument finds ever new illus- 

 trations of the infinite variety and exquisite 

 perfection of the forms of matter, and so leads 

 us to the best and highest of all science. It 

 tends to enlarge our minds with the knowledge, 

 and fill our hearts with the adoration and love 

 of that awful Being, who has left the impress 

 of His perfections, the proof of His presence, 

 and wisdom, and goodness, and power, every- 

 where and in all things, throughout the vast of 

 all past ages, and of all surrounding space. 



2. Selection and condensation in the prose- 

 cution of our remarks are here all the more 

 difficult, from the very extent of the field of 

 inquiry, and the variety of illustrations that we 

 might adduce. But let us so far attempt to 

 show how the Microscope reveals to us the 

 marvels of the earth beneath our feet, and of 

 the waters around us, and of the heavens above 

 the new worlds that exist in the clouds of 

 the sky, in every dust of the flower, in every 

 drop of river or ocean, and in every atom of 

 sand upon which we tread. Look back, then, 

 one hundred years. 



