and guiding the revolutions of worlds, or he who difeo- 
vers him bulled in regulating the ceconomy of an hive of 
bees, or deeply engaged in folding the wings of a beetle? 
Such an obfervation, from fo elevated a character, 
might be capable of exciting a very wrong and unfa¬ 
vourable idea, with refped to the ftudy of the fmaller 
branches of Natural Hiflory; as if unworthy of any 
conliderable fhare of attention, or at lead: of but flight 
importance, when compared with the higher orders of 
Zoology. But let us recoiled the fentiments of other 
men, of the moll comprehcnlivc minds, the moll bril¬ 
liant abilities, and the moll exalted piety and virtue. 
The celebrated Mr. Boyle ufed to exprefs himfelf 
on this lubjedin afomewhat lingular plirafe, viz. That 
for his own part, his wonder dwelt not fo much on the 
clocks as the watches of Nature ; and that the Creator 
appeared in reality to be maximus in minimus . If we are 
llruck with admiration at the prodigious bulk of the 
elephant, or the rhinoceros, we arc loll in allonifhment 
at the contemplation of a mite, lor in that animal there 
is a more complicated ftrudurc, and a greater variety 
of parts than in the larger animals ; and how mull this 
allonilliment increafe, when we contemplate by the 
help of glafics, thofe innumerable legions of animal- 
cula, compared to which, a mite may itfelf be regarded 
as a kind of elephant. 
The opinion of Puny on the minuter parts of Na¬ 
ture is evident, from his own words. “ In his tarn 
parvis tamque fere null is quae ratio! quanta vis! quam 
incxtricabilis perfedio!”. 
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