The insect must see a whole world of wonders of which we know
little or nothing. True, we have microscopes, with which we can
see one thing at a time if carefully laid upon the stage; but
what is the finest instrument that can be produced compared
to that with twenty-five thousand object-glasses, all of them
probably achromatic, and each one a living instrument, with its
own nerve-branch supplying a separate sensation. To creatures
thus endowed with microscopic vision, a cloud of sandy dust
must appear like an avalanche of massive rock fragments, and
everything else proportionally monstrous.--W. MATTIEU
WILLIAMS, “Science in Short Chapters.”
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=Word, Effect of a Tender=--See HEART-HUNGER, SATISFYING.