NATURE AKD REVELATION. 11 



what seems only an organized atom, as in the 

 more visible living works of greater dimensions. 

 Whatever escapes the unassisted eye of man is 

 often treated with indifference, but there is 

 not a thing formed on which there is not 

 stamped the seal of omnipotence and infinite 

 wisdom — 



Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce 

 His works unwise, of which the smallest part 

 Exceeds the narrow vision of her mind? 

 As if upon a full-proportioned dome, 

 Of swelling columns reared, the pride of art, 

 A critic fly, whose feeble ray scarce spreads 

 An inch around, with blind presumption bold 

 Should dare to tax the structure of the whole. 



Thomson. 



The natural perfections of God are set before 

 us for our admiration, the moral for our 

 imitation. The book of nature answers our 

 questions as regards the former; the book of re- 

 velation as to the latter. They harmonize with 

 each other. In the subjects of this treatise we 

 have a most prominent example of the import- 

 ance of research, both as regards the avoidance 

 of evil and the manifestation of creative won- 

 ders. The promised harvests of our fields 

 droop beneath the corrosive influences of mi- 

 nute agencies, multiplied till they become at 



