Microscopical Essays, 



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A" concise List of Objects for the Microscope. 



The fhort lift here preferred to the reader mud, from the 

 nature of the fubjecl:, be very imperfect. ; for the whole of the ani- 

 mal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, with all their numerous 

 fub-divifions, furnifti objects for the microfcope ; and there is 

 not one of them that, when properly examined, will not afford 

 inftruction and entertainment to the rational inveftigator of the 

 works of creation, The Syftema Naturae of Linnaeus may 

 therefore be conhdered as a catalogue of univerfals for micro- 

 fcopic obfervation, each of which involves a variety of particu- 

 lars. The lift here given can be conhdered as little more than a 

 directory, to point out to thofe who have only begun to ftudy 

 this part of natural hiftory, a few of thofe objects which merit- 

 their attention, and which, from their beauties, may incite them 

 to purfue the ftudy with greater ardor, 



" Thofe who rightly confider natural things, will find them a 

 Ihadow of heavenly things, a fchool in which God is the teacher, 

 and all the objects of 4enfe in heaven and earth, and under the 

 earth, are as the letters of an univerfal language, in which all 

 nations have a common intereft, The Creator himfelf has made 

 this ufe of it, revealing his will by it, and referring man to it for 

 inftruction. From hence the univerfal agreement between nature 

 and revelation. Hence, alfo, he that can underftand God as 

 the fountain of truth, and the Saviour of men in the holy fcrip- 

 tures, will be better difpofed to underftand and adore Him as the 

 fountain of power and goodnefs in the natural creation. Wherc- 

 loever we go in divinity, the true philofophy will follow us as a 

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