Microscopical Essays, ggg 



^fes for the promotion of that end. By contemplating the world 

 under this enlarged idea, every wife man may difcern that the 

 Creator of the univerfe is one,* and that his effence is love and 

 wifdom ;"' and that he effects whatfoever is done in nature, by his 

 own operation, through the medium of the various celestial and 

 fpiritual hierarchies, gradually defcending from the higheft orders 

 of this immenfe chain to the lowefL 



Between the lowest and higheft degree of corporeal or fpiritual 

 perfection, there is an almoft infinite number of intermediate de- 

 grees: the result of thefe degrees compofes the universal 

 chain. This unites all beings, connects all worlds, and com- 

 prehends all fpheres. One sole being is out of this chain, and. 

 that is He that formed it.f Again, life itfelf, and consequently 

 the Lord, is the fupreme, only, and infinite ufe; all other exift- 

 encies in heaven or earth, whether fpiritual or natural, are only 

 ultimate effects, or manifestations from that one infinite caufe, 

 exhibiting emblems of the one, eternal, infinite ufe. 



From a retrospective view of this chapter, we may obferve a 

 itriking difference between man and the lower orders of animal 

 creation. Man is born totally ignorant ; fo much fo, that he 

 has no knowledge even of the mother's breaft, till he has been 



N n -brought 



* Hence endless good ; hence endless order Springs:; 

 Hence that importance in minute ft things; 

 And endlefs hence dependence muft endure, 

 Blest in his will, and in his power fecure. 



Brooke's Univeifal ^Beauty, b. v'u 



•t Bonnet's Contemplation of Nature. 



