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self in nature. Nay, rather, let us believe tliat, if 

 our eyes were opened, we should fulfil the re- 

 quirement of Genius, to " see the universal in the 

 particular," by seeing God's whole likeness, His 

 whole glory, reflected as in a mirror even in the 

 meanest flower ; and that nothing but the dulness 

 of our own sinful souls prevents them from seeing 

 day and night in all things, however small or 

 trivial to human eclecticism, the Lord Jesus Christ 

 Himself fulfilling His own saying, "My Father 

 worketh hitherto, and I work." 



And therefore, when we meet with such an excel- 

 lent passage as this : — * 



" Thus it is that Nature advances step by step, 

 gradually bringing out, through successive stages of 

 being, new organs and new faculties ; and leaving, 

 as she moves along, at every step, some animals 

 which rise no higher, as if to serve for landmarks 

 of her progress through all succeeding time. And 

 this it is which makes the study of comparative 

 anatomy so fascinating. Not that I mean to favour 



* Harvey's Sea-side Book, p. 166, 



