go NATURE'S REALM. 
from pole to pole, the Andes and America rise 
from the bosom of the sea; then the startled 
waves, tumultuously pouring over the ancient 
world, produce one of the more recent catas- 
trophes, the great deluge. Thus the supreme 
Power decreed ! 
When, after having viewed the imposing 


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Pan-Kou-Cue, 
phenomena which are taking place on the sur- 
tace of the earth, we look down upon its tiniest 
inhabitants, we see revealed, in unexpected 
magnificence, all the wisdom of Providence ; 
ere long the spectacle of immensity in what is 
infinitely little, astonishes us no less than the 
immeasurable power displayed in the grand 
scenes of creation. Animated nature seems to 

imitate the ancient pantheism, which distrib-- 
uted portions of the divinity to every molecule 
of created matter ; she equally reveals herselt 
everywhere: armed with the microscope the- 
eye discovers her traces in every interstice of 
matter. 
Fontenelle was wont to censure the ancient 
THE CrEATOR.—FROM A PAINTING IN A CHINESE MANUSCRIPT. 
verbose scholasticism, which he rightly called 
the philosophy of words. The learned secre- 
tary of the academy wanted to see the intellect 
occupied solely with facts—with the philosophy 
of things. We are about to prove ourselves 
followers of his precepts by restricting ourselves 
to the results of observation. 
Nothing gives a more brilliant idea of the 
