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tarn parvis at que tarn nullis qua ratio, quanta vis, 

 quam inextricabilis perfeBio ? And again, Rerum 

 natura niifquam magis quam in miiiirnis tota eji, 

 Hift. Nat. 1. 1 1, c. I. What would he have faid, 

 if he had feen Animals of fo ftupendous Small- 

 nefs, as I have mentioned ? How would he have 

 been rapt into an Extafie of Aftonifhment and 

 Admiration ? 



Again : If confidering the Body of a Gnat, 

 (which by his own Confeffion is none of the 

 leaft of Infefts) he could make fo many admi- 

 ring Queries, Where hath Nature difpofed fo ma- 

 ny Se77fe.s in a Gnat ? TJhi vijum prcetendit ? Vbi 

 gujiatum applicavit ? Ubi odoratum injeruit ? Vbi 

 *vero truculent am ill am & portione maxim am vocem 

 ingeneravit? ^id fubtilitate pennas adnexuitf 

 Fralongavit pedum crura ? Difpofuit jejunam ca-- 

 veam uti ahum ? Avidam fanguinis & potijjimum 

 humani Jitim accendit? T'elum verb perfodiendo 

 tergori quo fpiculavit ingenio ? Atque ut in capaci, 

 cum cerni non pojjit exilitas, it a reciproca gemi- 

 navit arte, ut fodiendo acuminatum pariter for- 

 bendoque fifulofum effet. Which Words fhould 

 I tranfla;te, would lofe of their Emphafis and 

 Elegancy; if, I fay, he could make fuch Que- 

 ries about the Members of a Gnat, what may 

 we make, and what would he in all likelihood 

 have made, had he feen thefe incredibly fmall 

 living Creatures ? How would he have admired 

 the immenfe Subtilty (as he phrafes it) of their 

 Parts ? For to ufe Dr. Hook's Words in his Mi^ 

 crpfcopium, p. 103. If thefe Creatures be foex-^ 



feeding 



