NATURAL HISTORY. 10 \ 



" It is because you see so much of God's 

 knowledge in them ; is it not ?" 



" Yes, my dear boys, it is. When I look at 

 many things which man makes or does, I 

 think to myself, ' Now this thing is likely to 

 have a mixture of sense and nonsense in it ; 



the sense is God's, and the nonsense is man's.' 



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But when I look at a thing made by one of 

 the dumb creatures for its own comfort and 

 safety, like the spider's house, with its door 

 and hinge, for instance, I say to myself, ' Now 

 here is the wisdom of God, without any of 

 man's nonsense.' And yet, boys, men are far 

 wiser than any other animal in this world." 



"But, Uncle Philip, you said that a piece 

 of man's best work was really coarse : some 

 things must be neat, we should think. Is the 

 point of a needle coarse ? It does not seem so." 



" Boys, you have mentioned the very thing 

 which was in my mind when I spoke. The 

 point of the smallest needle is very coarse. 

 You have heard me talk of the microscope. 

 I told you it was a set of glasses, so fixed that 

 when you looked through them, it made small 

 things appear very large : on some other day, 

 perhaps, I will let you look through my mi- 

 croscope for yourselves ; but now, I just wish 



