Microscopical Essays. i6g 



what an height is our aflonifhment raifed, when we difcover all 

 thefe parts arranged in the lea ft, in the fame regular manner. 

 How is it poflible but what we mud ftand amazed, when we 

 reflect; that thofe little animals, whofe bodies are (mailer than the 

 point of the differing knife, have mufcles, veins, arteries, and 

 every other part common to the larger animals ? Creatures fo 

 very diminutive, that our hands are not delicate enough t6 

 manage, nor our eyes fufficiently acute to fee them. 



All beings are perfect, confidered in themfelves : they all 

 anfwer one end. The determinations or qualities of each being 

 are the means relative to this end. Thofe means which are of 

 an exalted nature anfwer a nobler or higher purpofe. The 

 meafure of perfection confifts in the relation which every being 

 bears to the whole. 



When confidered with refpecl; to the Creator, ail creatures are 

 upon a level j and yet, as creatures, even the molt defpicable 

 bear fuch relation to their Creator, as to make them highly va- 

 luable to their fellow-creatures, who are themfelves only valuable 

 by fharing and partaking of the Divine influence. As the har- 

 mony and infinity of the eternal Artift are imprefled on all his 

 works, and as outwardly we can find no bounds, fo inwardly we 

 can find no end of art and beauty. ■'' Let us then not flight or 

 deem that little, in which immenfity is fo confpicuous ; or that 

 trivial, in which there is fuch a mamfeflation of infinite wifdom • 

 and power but let us rather 



X " Mufe 



* Brooke's Univerfal Beauty, a poem. 



