4 THE MICROSCOPE. 



exalt our ideas of the genius of man, and to 

 enlarge our views of the glory of our Maker. 

 Chief among these inventions we venture to 

 class the Telescope and the Microscope. What 

 worlds, vast beyond conception, and by human 

 eye previously altogether unseen, have been 

 brought to view by the Telescope, as, in the hand 

 of a Newton or Rosse, this instrument has swept 

 the face of the sky : or, as directed by the mind 

 of the English Adams, or the French Leverrier, 

 it has revealed a new planet, dwelling up to that 

 moment beyond the ken of man in the remotest 

 distance of the limitless universe, and thus 

 achieved a discovery more wondrous, if possible, 

 than when Columbus sought and found a new 

 world beyond the Atlantic wave ! 



3. Not less marvellous than the Telescope is 

 that other instrument which we have named, 

 and to which our attention is now to be more 

 specially directed ; the Microscope, which re- 

 veals to us the minute worlds which lie ever 

 near and around us, and which but for its use 

 would never have been disclosed to our view. 

 It is indeed hard to say which of these two in- 

 struments, the Telescope or the Microscope, has 



