Gem #18 - Nothingness of Man

My God! when I survey the boundless fields of space, and see those

magnificent spheres rolling through it all--when I consider how vast are

your dominions--so wide that an angel's wing might flap to all eternity and

never reach a boundary--I marvel that you should look on insects so obscure

as man. I have looked into my microscope and seen the short lived tiny

insect on a leaf, and I have called him small. I will not call him "tiny"

again: compared with me, he is great, if I put myself in comparison with

God. I am so little, that I shrink into nothingness when I behold the

almightiness of Jehovah--so little that the difference between the

microscopic animal and man dwindles into nothing, when compared with the

infinite chasm between God and man.