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to the ground, by the force of such a law, 

 awakened thoughts in the mind of Newton 

 that unfolded the glories of the solar system 

 and the economy of the universe. Let no one 

 therefore despise what, by a false comparison, 

 we are accustomed to designate small or insig- 

 nificant, for neither are epithets becoming the 

 creatures of God, as applied to any of those 

 things which he has made and adapted to his 

 own designs. The least thing, even a mould, 

 requiring the highest power of the microscope 

 for its observation, can become in his hands, 

 as we have seen, a mighty scourge or a trans- 

 cendent benefit. Nothing is so small but that 

 almighty power can accomplish great ends by 

 its instrumentahty; nothing is so weak but the 

 strength of God can make it victorious; nothing 

 is so feeble but that out of it at his bidding 

 there issues might. Hence the minutest or- 

 ganized substances which obey the laws which 

 he has impressed upon creation tend to His 

 glory ; and the study of them enables us to 

 collect the treasures of real wisdom, and to 

 improve our condition in the world. 



