68 THE MICROSCOPE. 



scarcely visible lenses, has not, in the hands of 

 an Ehrenberg, or an Owen, achieved discoveries 

 even more unexpected and marvellous, than 

 when Herschel, with his Telescope, saw the 

 broad milky way that belts the heavens as a 

 vast girdle of blazing stars, lying like glittering 

 dust along heaven's dark sky; or when Lord 

 Eosse, traversing the firmament with his gigan- 

 tic instrument, in a moment resolved the great 

 Nebula in Orion into a cluster of glowing stars, 

 or surveyed the planet Neptune in its far distant 

 home ? Yet after all that those instruments 

 have revealed to us after we have with the one 

 penetrated to that remote heaven, and seen its 

 stars in their brightness and grandeur ; or with 

 the other pierced into the minutest fragments 

 of matter, and surveyed the delicacy and beauty 

 of its organized atoms, we are but the more im- 

 pressively taught this lesson at once the highest 

 and the most humbling that beyond the far 

 distant Neptune which the Telescope has brought 

 to our view, and beyond the little Monad which 

 the Microscope has looked upon, there are worlds 

 upon worlds above that planet, and beneath that 

 animalcule ; and that the unknown infinities on 



