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most adoring thoughts on the subject*?" And this 

 salutary tendency it possesses in common with every 

 other branch of natural knowledge; for such is the 

 consummate perfection of all the works of the CREATOR, 

 that whatever path of inquiry we may select for our 

 especial investigation, if followed in a right spirit, will 

 conduct us to the " Fountain of living waters," to the 

 source of all Truth and Wisdom. 



From myriads take thy choice, 



In all that lives a guide to GOD is given ; 



Ever thou hear'st some Angel-guardian's voice, 

 When Nature speaks of Heaven ! f 



Thus, in the impressive language of Dr. Chalmers, 

 while the Telescope enables us to see a system in every 

 star, the Microscope unfolds to us a world in every 

 atom. The one instructs us that this mighty globe, 

 with the whole burthen of its people and its countries, 

 is but a grain of sand in the vast field of immensity 

 the other, that every atom may harbour the tribes and 

 families of a busy population. The one shews us the 

 insignificance of the world we inhabit the other re- 

 deems it from all its insignificance, for it tells us, that 

 in the leaves of every forest, in the flowers of every 



* Leigh Hunt's " Visit to the Zoological Gardens," 1836. 

 t " The Guardian Angel," by Sir E. B. Lytton, Bart. 



