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8. Our marvel at such discoveries must in- 

 crease, when we reflect that the organization of 

 many of these beings, whether animal or vege- 

 table, is by no means simple or uniform. The 

 animals possess stomachs and mouths, and 

 around their bodies are hairs a million of times 

 more minute than the most delicate hair in the 

 human head ! What a view does this give us 

 of the works of the Creator ! Into how infinitely 

 minute a point may the Great Author of all 

 existence compress the principle of life ! No won- 

 der, that here even the very infidel is constrained 

 to adore the Almighty's power and wisdom ! 

 that even Hobbes exclaimed, " The majesty of 

 God appears no less in small things than, in 

 great ; and, as it exceedeth human sense in the 

 immensity of the universe, so also doth it in 

 the smallness of the parts thereof/' The author 

 of the Vestiges of the Natural History of 

 Creation indeed tells us, that it were a most 

 inconceivably paltry exercise of the power of 

 God, to create certain of the lower creatures of 

 the earth. The very tiniest of those creatures 

 which the Microscope reveals, might silence 

 such an interpreter of Creation's works, or rather 



