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paper · doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2005
openalex publication_date 1851/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/08/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
No pursuit in the whole range of learning is more congenial to the human mind than the study of Nature.No one can gaze upon the beauty and complexity of her forms without wishing to dive more deeply into her hidden recesses, and, by in- vestigation, to find out the cause of many won- derful effects constantly brought before the eye.Astronomy may raise our thoughts to the Creator in wonder and astonishment by the magnitude of the stars, and the marvellous wisdom by which they are kept in their course ; but " there are miracles of minuteness as well as of magnitude," B 3 Q fi 8 Q. * Dr. Carpenter says, this earth contains a large proportion of animal matter, about 80 per cent, of its weight.