The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-10-17
From Dicks Christian phizo,onsex

90" D''H1 SHTtStedn Philosopher.
iHE MICROSCOPE. The Microscope Is
an instrument, constructed on similar prin-
ciPles which has greatly expanded our
views OF the manifold wisdom of God. -
ms instrument, which discovers to rs
small OBJECTS invisible to the naked eve.
was invented soon after the invention and
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OF this OPTICAL continuance, we perceive q
variety of wonders in almost every object.
IN the animal, the vegetable, and the min
eral kingdoms. We perceive that every
particle of matter, however minute. has
determlnate form-that the very scales
on the skin of paddock are all beautifully
interviewer and yariegated like a piece Of
network, which no art can imitate-that
the priekles of vegetables though magni-
fed thousand times, appear as sharp and
well polished as to the naked eve that
every particle of the dust on butterfiv's
wings is beautiful and regularly organiz-
ed feather-that every hair of cur head is
hollow tube, with bulbs and roots, fur
nlshed with a variety of threads or fill.
me2ts-and that the pores in our skin,
through which the sweat and perspiration
flow, are 50 numerous and minute, that q
grain of sand would cover hundred and
twenty-five thousand of them. We her.
so small that fifty thousand of them would
not eqnGl the size of mite; and vet each
of these creatures are furnished with a
mouth, eyes, stomach, blood vessels and
other organs for the performances Of AMI
nal functions.
In stagnant pool which is covered with a
greenlsh scum, during the summer months,
HF'E5ffr fHH t dEQ2 Qi the water is found to be
ants. The mouldy substance which usual
ly adheres to damp bodies, exhibits a
forest of trees and plants, where the
| branches, leaves, and fruit can be plainly
distinguished. Ina word, by this admirable
instrument We behold the same Almighty
hand which rounded the spacious globe Oh
which we live, and the huge masses of the
planetary orbs, and directs them in their
rapid motions through the sky-employ-
ed at the same moment in rounding and
polishing ten thousand minute Transparent
globes III the eye of fly, and boring and
arranging veins and arteries, and forming
and clasping joints and claws, for the move
ments of mite We thus learn the
admirable and astonishing effects of the
Wisdom CT God, and that the Divine Care
and Benevolence are as much displayed in
the construction of the smallest insect, as
IN the elephant, or in a whale, or in those
ponderous globes which roll around US ia
the sky. These, and thousands of other
views which the microscope exhibits,
would never have been displayed to the
human mind, had they not been exposed
by this admirable invention.
In fine, by the means of the two instru-
ments to which have now adverted,
we behold Jehovah's empire extending to
infnity on either hand. By the telescope
we are presented with the most astonish-
4 ing displays of his Onlnipotence in the
immense number, the rapid motions, and
the inconceivable magnitude of the celes-
tial globes and by the microscope, we
behold, what is still more uncomfortable, q
display of his unsearchable wisdom in the
Divine mechanism, by which a drop of
water is peopled with myriads of inhabi-
/ tants-a fact, which were it not subject to
occular demonstration, would far exceed
the limits of human conception or belief.
! We have thus the most striking and sensi-
BILE luminaries of heaven, and from the
loitiest seraph that stands before the
i throne of God, down to this lower world,
and to the smallest microscopic animalcule
that eludes the finest glass. He is
every where present, and, by his power,
intelligence, and agency, anlmates, sup
ports, and directs the whole. Such
views and CONCENTRATIONS naturally lead
us to advert to the character of God as
dehneated by the sacred writer's, that,
Gle is of great power and mighty 10
strength" that his understanding is in
finitc,'' that " his operations are unsearch-
able and past finding out J" and they must
exile the deyout mind to Join with fervor
in the language of abortion and praise,
When thy amazing works, o God
: My mental eye surveys,
Z" Transported with the view, I'm lost
n In wonder, love and praise