230 INTRODUCTION. 
Thefe Truths need no Proof to fuch as are 
acquainted with the Microscope, however 
incredible they may feem to others : that 
valuable Inftrument will fully convince us, 
that All the Works of the Creator well de- 
ferve our mod diligent Attention ^ that Per¬ 
fection appears every where $ that Minutenefs 
is no Mark of Meannefs; and that nothing is 
fo little or fo low but that it can richly repay 
our Enquiries. Hereby we are like wife 
taught, that an Atom to Omnipotence is as a 
World, and a World but as an Atom ; in 
the fame Manner as to 'Eternity one Day is 
as a thoufand Years, and a thoufand Years 
but as one Day. Every Species of thefe Ani¬ 
malcules may alfo ufefully ferve to correCt 
our Pride, and prove how inadequate our 
Notions are to the real Nature of Things : 
by making us fenfible how’ little of the larger 
or fmaller Part of the Creation could poffir 
bly be made for us; wKp are furniihed with 
Organs capable of difcerning to a certain De¬ 
gree only of the great or little , all beyond 
which is as much unknown, as far beyond 
the Reach of our Conception, as if it had 
never been. 
An Examination of the Variety and Beau¬ 
ty of the Works of Nature muft afiord the 
moft reafonable Satisfaction to a contempla¬ 
tive Mind, as they ftrongly evince the Agen¬ 
cy and Omnipotence of the Deity. Proofs 
of fame all-powerful, wife, and good Being 
are 
