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get a microscope and use it faithfully that we may 

 see more, and, let me repeat, still more. 



Then, when you have faithfully used this won- 

 der-working instrument, used it with the mental 

 labor and diligence demanded for well doing in 

 anything worth doing at all, used it in freedom 

 from the " constitutional weariness " so common 

 in all pursuits except that of money-getting, then 

 will you appreciate what Gosse, a pleasure-seeing 

 as well as scientific microscopist, has affirmed : — 



" Great and gorgeous as is the display of 

 Divine power and wisdom in the things that are 

 seen of all, it may safely be affirmed that a far more 

 extensive prospect of these glories lay unheeded 

 and unknown till the optician's art revealed it. 

 Like the work of some mighty genie of Oriental 

 fable, the brazen tube is the key that unlocks a 

 world of wonder and beauty before invisible, 

 which one who has once gazed upon it can never 

 forget, and never cease to admire." 



