O THE MICROSCOPE. 



redeems it from all its ID significance ; for it tells 

 me that in the leaves of eveiy forest, and in the 

 flowers of every garden, and in the waters of 

 every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, 

 and numberless as are the glories of the firma- 

 ment. The one has suggested to me, that be- 

 yond and above all that is visible to man, there 

 may lie fields of creation which sweep immea- 

 surably along, and carry the impress of the 

 Almighty's hand to the remotest scenes of the 

 universe. The other suggests to me, that within 

 and beneath all that minuteness which the aided 

 eye of man has been able to explore, there may 

 lie a region of invisibles ; and that, could we 

 draw aside the mysterious curtain which shrouds 

 it from our senses, we might there see a theatre 

 of as many wonders as astronomy has unfolded, 

 a universe within the compass of a point so 

 small as to elude all the powers of the micro- 

 scope, but where the wonder-working God finds 

 room for the exercise of all His attributes, where 

 He can raise another mechanism of worlds, and 

 fill and animate them all with the evidences 

 of His glory." 1 



1 Dr. Chalmers's Astronomical Discourses, Disc. iii. 



