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the belief that we are formed after the image of God. ¬ By her astronomers, I was brought to a nearer and astonishing view of the remotest planets, and her naturalists amused me with the curio- sities of their own ; tracing not only the families of all animals, but of plants, down to the grasses we tread upon, in the sexual intercourses of their tribes: whilst others again, with a skill which seemed more like magic than ordinary science, were exploring the hitherto latent characteris- tics of inanimate matter, till all the strata of their globe were laid out before me, and their struc- tures as clearly explained as if they had been the work of human hands. ¬To examine the wonders which chemistry and mechanics had accomplished amongst them would almost demand the skill that gave them birth. — They had discovered a power I am quite unable to describe, which, though when left at ¬large ¬
