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applied, solves many a strange phenomenon 

 explains many a fairy tale and destroys many 

 a superstitious prejudice ; while it opens to 

 us a fresh page in the book of nature, and con- 

 strains us anew to say, " Great and marvellous 

 are thy works, Lord God Almighty ! " 



7. These brief, and necessarily imperfect 

 illustrations, must convince us that boundless 

 and glorious as is that universe afar off, whose 

 realms the Telescope has surveyed, and whose 

 remotest depths it still vainly attempts to fa- 

 thom, there is another universe at hand, which 

 the Microscope brings under our ken, and whose 

 beauties and glories it still more fully subjects 

 to our gaze ! Yea, as we reflect how the Micro- 

 scope conducts man into the hitherto inaccessible 

 and most mysterious regions of this minute 

 universe, lights up the darkest abodes of re- 

 cently unseen and unsuspected existence, pre- 

 sents forms of surpassing beauty and matchless 

 delicacy to our view, and reveals to us new races 

 of beings, new modes of production and new 

 laws of organization, new powers of vital action 

 and new functions in exercise ; we may almost 

 venture to ask if this little Instrument, with its 



