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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883*. Excerpt: ... 'Come take up your hats, and away let U9 haBte To the Butterfly's ball and the Grasshopper's feast; The Trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for you." Roscoe. In Alphonse Karr's little book already quoted there are two chapters with very suggestive, if not very elegant, headings, "Sur le dos" and "Sur le ventre." Lying on the grass, and looking first down in the strong light into thickets of thyme, and forests of palms, and tree ferns of moss, to watch the important doings of tiny insects which live there, and then turning over, and looking with shaded eyes through the gaps in the branches of the larger trees and floating gossamer threads at the clouds and clear depths of sky beyond; it may depend on the turn of one's mind whether, used independently, the telescope or microscope sets one thinking most, but together they must make the least imaginative of ns feel what a very little space it is after all that man, with all his many inventions, occupies in creation. "Vast chain of being! which from God began. Natures ethereal, human--angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect. What no eye can see, No glass can reach. From infinite to thee, From thee to nothing." "Glasses " have much improved since Pope wrote these lines 150 years or so ago, but have brought us as yet no nearer an upward or downward vanishing point of possible life. Each increase of power of the telescope has, on the contrary, only revealed fresh worlds beyond, and in the microscope only brought us nearer something like ocular demonstration, that there is truth in the homely lines which tell us that "Little fleas have lesser fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And those fleas have other fleas, and so ad infinitum." In which ever direction we look it is the s...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235595889
- ISBN 13 9781235595882
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages22
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