space of a quarter of an inch in diameter, and presenting to the eye the most beautiful configurations. There is not a weed, nor a moss, nor the most insignificant vegetable, which does not show a multiplicity of vessels disposed in the most curious manner for the circulation of sap for its nourishment, and which is not adorned with innumerable graces for its embellishment. All these and ten thousands of other wonders which lie beyond the limits of natural vision, in this new and unexplored region of the universe, would have been for ever concealed from our view, had not the Creator endued the rays of light with the power of _depicting the images of objects_, when refracted by convex transparent substances. In this instance, as well as in many others, we behold a specimen of the admirable and diversified effects, which the Creator can produce from the agency of a single principle in nature. By means of optical instruments, we are now enabled to take a more minute and expansive view of the amazing operations of nature, both in heaven and on earth, than former generations could have surmised. These views tend to raise our conceptions of the attributes of that Almighty Being, who presides over all the arrangements of the material system, and to present them to our contemplation in a new, a more elevated, and expansive point of view. There is, therefore, a connection which may be traced between the apparently accidental principle of the rays of light forming images of objects, and the comprehensive views we are now enabled to take of the character and perfections of the Divinity. Without the existence of the law or principle alluded to, we could not, in the present state, have formed precisely the same conceptions either of the Omnipotence, or of the wisdom and intelligence of the Almighty. Had no microscope ever been invented, the idea never could have entered into the mind of man, that worlds of living beings exist beyond the range of natural vision, that organized beings possessed of animation exist, whose whole bulk is less than the ten hundred thousandth part of the smallest grain of sand; that, descending from a visible point to thousands of degrees beyond it, an invisible world exists, peopled with tribes of every form and size, the extent of which, and how far it verges towards infinity downwards, mortals have never yet explored, and perhaps will never be able to comprehend. This circumstance alone presents before us the perfections of the divinity in a new aspect, and plainly intimates that it is the will and the intention of the Deity, that we should explore his works, and investigate the laws by which the material world is regulated, that we may acquire more expansive views of his character and operations. The inventions of man in relation to art and science, are not therefore to be considered as mere accidental occurrences, but as special arrangements in the divine government, for the purpose of