e movements of organization, as profound as in
the fall of a stone or the formation of a crystal.

To the chemist and the microscopist the living body presents the same
difficulties, arising from the fact that everything is in perpetual
change in the organism. The fibrine of the blood puzzles the one as much
as its globules puzzle the other. The difference between the branches of
science which deal with space only, and those which deal with space and
time, is this: we have no glasses that can magnify time. The figure I
here show you a was photographed from an object (pleurosigma angulatum)
magnified a thousand diameters, or presenting a million times its
natural surface. This other figure of the same object, enlarged from
the one just shown, is magnified seven thousand diameters, or forty-nine
million times in surface. When we can make the forty-nine millionth of
a second as long as its integer, physiology and chemistry will approach
nearer the completeness of anatomy.

Our reverence becomes more worthy, or, if you will, less unworthy of its
Infinite Object in proportion as our intelligence is lifted and expanded
to a higher and broader understanding of the Divine methods of action.
If Galen called his heathen readers to admire, the power, the wisdom,
the providence, the goodness of the "Framer of the animal body,"--if Mr.
Boyle, the student of nature, as Addison and that friend of his who had
known him for forty years tell us, never uttered the name of the Supreme
Being without making a distinct pause in his speech, in token of his
devout recognition of its awful meaning,--surely we, who inherit the
accumulated wisdom of nearly two hundred years since the time of
the British philosopher, and of almost two thousand since the Greek
physician, may well lift our thoughts from the works we study to their
great Artificer. These wonderful discoveries which we owe to that mighty
little instrument, the telescope of the inner firmament with all
its included worlds; these simple formulae by which we condense the
observations of a generation in a single axiom; these logical analyses
by which we fence out the ignorance we cannot reclaim, and fix the
limits of our knowledge,--all lead us up to the inspiration of the
Almighty, which gives understanding to the world's great teachers. To
fear science or knowledge, lest it disturb our old beliefs, is to fear
the influx of the Divine wisdom into the souls of our fellow-men; for
what is