THE FAIRY-LAND OF SCIENCE. 25 
for your own little life, even though it may have its 
troubles ? Can you help feeling a part of this guided 
and governed nature ? or doubt that the power which 
fixed the laws of the stars and of the tiniest drop of 
water that made the plant draw power from the sun, 
the tiny coral animal its food from the dashing waves ; 
that adapted the flower to the insect and the insect 
to the flower is also moulding your life as part of 
the great machinery of the universe, so that you have 
only to work, and to wait, and to love ? 
We are all groping dimly for the Unseen Power, but 
no one who loves nature and studies it can ever feel 
alone or unloved in the world. Facts, as mere facts, 
are dry and barren, but nature is full of life and love, 
and her calm unswerving rule is tending to some great 
though hidden purpose. You may call this Unseen 
Power what you will may lean on it in loving, 
trusting faith, or bend in reverent and silent awe ; but 
even the little child who lives with nature and gazes 
on her with open eye, must rise in some sense or other 
through nature to nature's God. 
