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dence. Their structure, their vessels and limbs, 

 their adaptation to their situation, their food and 

 habitations, were regulated in as beautiful arid 

 complete a manner as those of the largest and 

 apparently most favoured animals. The smallest 

 insects are as exactly finished, often as gaily 

 ornamented, as the most graceful beast or the 

 birds of brightest plumage. And when we seem 

 to go out of the domain of the complex animal 

 structure with which we are familiar, and come 

 to animals of apparently more scanty faculties, 

 and less developed powers of enjoyment and 

 action, we still find that their faculties and their 

 senses are in exact harmony with their situation 

 and circumstances; that the wants which they 

 have are provided for, and the powers which 

 they possess called into activity. So that Muller, 

 the patient and accurate observer of the smallest 

 and most obscure microscopical animalcula, de- 

 clares that all classes alike, those which have 

 manifest organs, and those which have not, offer 

 a vast quantity of new and striking views of the 

 animal economy ; every step of our discoveries, 

 leading us to admire the design and care of the 

 Creator.* We find, therefore, that the Divine 

 Providence is, in fact, capable of extending itself 

 adequately to an immense succession of tribes of 

 beings, surpassing what we can image or could 

 previously have anticipated ; and thus we may 



* Miiller, Infusoria, Preface. 



