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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. 1835 Excerpt: ...though now placed amongst the fungi, it may truly be said to be scarcely analogous to any. Something of a similar nature to this, is that curious substance which also grows on old wood, and in caves and grottos, appearing like the upper surface of velvet, but melting away instantaneously at the slightest touch. L. The more you tell me of these cryptogamic plants, mamma--of their uncommon structure, singular properties, and numberless uses, --the more am I astonished at the variety of things included in this one branch of the science, and one too that seemed so insignificant. M. It must indeed be a cold and inanimate spirit, my love, that could examine these won ders, and not trace in them an Omnipotent Hand, --an All-directing, All-seeing Eye!--whether their effects are openly displayed in the painted wings of a papilionaceous plant, or concealed from all but scientific eyes in the cells of the mushroom, the urn of the moss, or the shield of the humble lichen. "Everything organic displays the touch of the Deity; and whatever has the principle of life derives it solely from Him: we never act towards each other in our kindest moments with that foreseeing and persevering benevolence which has been exerted by our Maker in the formation of His vegetable system; and this benefaction is still in all regions reproduced at every vernal and autumnal season: not one single plant or flower could have existed, unless its qualities and products had been specially designed and resolved upon beforehand." These feelings expressed by one of our much esteemed authors, are those with which I wish you, my child, to contemplate your Maker's works; not as mere instruments of His power--great, vast, and unfathomable as is that power; but intended also to conduce to our ple...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151702128
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151702129
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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