6 THOUGHTS ON ANIMALCULES. 



commune with these spiritual existences, and render 

 them manifest to our senses, have hitherto been in vain. 

 Even the familiar of the Wizard, and the attendant 

 spirit of the Magician (the reality of which, but little 

 more than a century since, it was deemed heretical to 

 deny), have passed into airy nothing, with the ignorance 

 and superstition that gave them birth. 



