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Ob, The World Below the Microscope. — The infinitude of the stellar universe. — Contrast of natural with magnified vision. — The limit of microscopic vision. — The evidences of germ life below the reach of the microscope.— How scientists have got at the size and the numbering of the atoms. — The thousands of millions of molecules that are still in the smallest object that has ever been seen under the microscope. — The recent theory of the scientists that each atom is constituted like smoke rings, that is of the vortical whirl of innumerable particles of ether immeasurably smaller than the atom. — The world of small things as well as of great merges into the infinite. 5
THE POLAR GLACIERS. Part I.
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