148 THE MICROSCOPE. 



quired new powers of penetration and enlarge- 

 ment, it cannot fail to reveal to us marvellous 

 secrets, lifting the veil which shrouds the mys- 

 teries of our intellectual nature, and throwing 

 light on questions which human reason has not 

 ventured to approach." * 



6. When such have been the Applications of 

 the Microscope, and such its Kevelations, we 

 may be excused for repeating, that in this little 

 instrument we behold one of man's most perfect 

 inventions. Regarded only as a source of inno- 

 cent recreation, its excellencies are manifold. 

 Rightly used, it might save many a man from 

 passing his hours in listless ennui, or in frivo- 

 lous but degrading amusements. " I have seen." 

 says Mr. Kingsley, u the cultivated man craving 

 for travel, and for success in life, pent up in 

 the drudgery of London work, and yet keeping 

 his spirit calm, and perhaps his morals all the 

 more righteous, by spending over his Micro- 

 scope evenings which would too probably have 

 gradually been wasted at the theatre." 2 The 

 Microscope especially demands and deserves the 



1 North British Review, No. LY. (Feb. 1858), p. 189. 



2 Glaucu?, p. 49. 



