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is but the centre of one system, and that there may be others,
perhaps countless others, in comparison with some even of
Avhich ours may be insignificant, revolving each in their pre­
scribed orbits in the regions of infinite space. There is indeed
a "Music of the spheres," which is heard by the soul alone,
and it sings the power of HIM who is the Eternal, the Almighty,
and with its silent voice invites us to join in its harmony with
the unspoken and unutterable language of the heart. "And these
are but parts of His ways, but how little a portion is heard
of HIM, but the thunder of His power who can understand?"
In the contemplation of the limited portion of the works "which
GOD created and made" that it comes within the bounds of our
knowledge or of our capacity in some small degree to comprehend,
the mind is lost in admiration, the soul appalled with awful
reverence.
Every one of those minute, and to the eye invisible creatures
I have alluded to, which yet again may be gigantic compared
with others which even the aids of science AVLU not enable us
to discover, has all its internal organization complete, and adapted
in the most absolutely perfect way to all its requirements, and
is even able, as has been proved, to impart animal heat to the
fluid in which it lives. HOAV astonishingly small then must
each separate part of each be, all acting in as harmonious
co-operation as any of those of the higher orders of earthly
being! Every individual of them too has, so to speak, mental
capacities, by which the actions of their bodies are unerringly
ordered and directed. Yet, "known unto GOD are all His works
from the beginning of the world," and every separate action of
every separate animalcula is known to HIM, both before its
occurrence, and as afterwards registered, as well as every motion
of every vast planet, and the history of each atom of its
component parts!
I conclude my "History of British Butterflies" with the
sentiment and in the words of an old writer, "The MAJESTY of
GOD appears no less in small than in great, and as it exceedeth
human sense in the immense greatness of the universe, so also
doth, it in the smallness of the parts thereof."