Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-02-13
From the New England Farmer.

Short Sermons for Farmerss.NOs II.
Thou opemest thy liberal hand and satisf-
est the desire of every licimg thing
All creatures aoait upon thee and thou
giceSt them their meat an due season.
To the inquistive and rejecting mind
nothing in nature seems more remarkable
than the infinite diffusion and abundance
of life. We speak in this case of organ
lied animal life, endued with powers of
perception, and capacities of happiness.
Every part of creation seems crowded TO
repletion; the power Of all and each is to
produce Its like; and the tendency is to a
multiplication of existences, as far as we
can see, absolutely infinite and beyond
any bounds, which our ina gination can
affix to them. The seeds of a single
dock root in. one season exceeded thirty
thousand There are other plants in
which the seeds are more numerous: but
such striking examples of the prolifcness
of the vegetable world do not surpass ma
ny which could be produced from the ami
NAL world. The spawn of many fishes
which frequent our rivers and bays, ex-
coed millions annually TO a single fish !;
and the amount of animal life or numbers
OF animals existing in some situations and
discoverable only by the most powerful
microscopes are such as to defy all calcu-
lation. The tribes of Intusoria are be-
yond all possibility of estimate. Of the
MeduSg it is said ''that in some parts OF
the Greenland sea they swarm to such an
extent that they give visible tinge to the
color of the waves for hundreds of miles
The total number of these animals dis.
persed over i hat space surpasses the ut.
most stretch ofthe imagination. In'these
situations a cubic foot of water, taken in
discriminatory, was found by Mr.. Scores
by to contain above 100000 of these dl.
minutive medus@." These are onlv sam
Piles of the infinite diffusion of life thro
every part of nature. Every drop o
water seems peopled with inhabitants
every leaf feeds its countless numbers
and every person, who at the close OF
summers evening stands on the margin
OF a marsh and observes the myriads O
myriads of flies and gnats, which swarm
in the air aad are seen leapmg and circ!
InS III every ulFeCtlou, linus Ills UolueS
lmaginlngs far surpassed by what her
forces Itself upon his senses, in the inf
mite numbers which rise up in cloud be
fore him. If he goes farther in his OF
: servatlons he perceives not merely thei
. Infinite numbers but likewise their inf
4 ute diversity; as various as can be con
celved in their form and organization. i
: their capacities and condition. in thei
size. activity and relations, in their mode
OF life and of subsistence, in the ways {
acquiring, preparing, and preserving thei
e food and In the peculiar organization b
which this food is received and digestet
e Yet diversified and curious as thes
d things are, how amazing is the fact tn;
3 the food necessary to sustain all this
s versfied existence is found in suffice,
: abundance, wherever it IS needed and 4,
d lnanded !; presented daily. hourly, cor
! siantly as the necessities of the case r
IS quire; and of the countless and inconcei
: liable multitudes, not one of which has an