joo Some reqjonable Reflections on 
for whatever Reafon God has been pleafed 
to bellow Exigence on them, and to clothe 
them with Beauty, what he has judged wor¬ 
thy himfelf to create, is not, furely, below 
us to examine and confider. The fame 
Hand that formed the Whale, the Elephant, 
and the Lion, has likewife made the Loufe, 
the Gnat, and the Flea. 
CHAP. LIX. 
Some reafonable Refie<ftions on Difcoveries 
made by the Microfcope. 
T HE Ufe of the ^ffcrofcope will natu¬ 
rally lead a thinking Mind to a Oonfi- 
deration of Matter , as fafhioned into diderent 
Figures and Sizes, whether Animate or In¬ 
animate : it will raife our Rededions from a 
Mite to a Whale, from a Grain of Sand to 
the Globe whereon we live * thence to the 
Sun and Planets * and, perhaps, onwards dill 
to the fixt Stars and the revolving Orbs they 
enlighten, where we dial! be loft amongd 
Suns and Worlds in the Immenfity and Mag¬ 
nificence of Nature. 
Gur Ideas of Matter, Space, and Dura¬ 
tion, are merely comparative, taken from 
emrfelves and Things around us, and limited 
to certain Bounds-* beyond which if we 
endeavour to extend them, they become very 
indiftindt. The Beginnings and Endings* 
* exeeffiv© 
