Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Ph
Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Ph
Henry Duncan
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The wonderful diversity of shape in these animalcules, has been thus described: " Let one suppose himself transported to a region, where the appearance, figure, and motion, of every animal is unknown, and he will form some idea of the variety presented by a drop of an infusion, observed by means of the microscope. One animalcule is a long slender line ; another is coiled up like an eel or a serpent ; some are circular, elliptical, or globular ; another a triangle or a cylinder ; some resemble t...hin flat plates ; and some maybe compared to a number of articulated reeds ; one is like a funnel, and another like a bell ; and the structure of many cannot be com- pared to any object familiar to our senses. Certain ani- malcula, such as the Proteus diffluens, can change their figure at pleasure, being sometimes extended to immod- INFUSORY ANIMALCULES. 141 erate length, and then contracted to a point ; one mo- ment they are inflated into a sphere, the next completely flaccid, and then various eminences will project from the surface, altering them apparently into animals entirely different.
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