Excerpt from The Amateur Microscopist, or Views of the Microscopic World: A Handbook of Microscopic Manipulation and Microscopic Objects But the wondrous scenes thus revealed to the eye have hitherto been mostly confined to this favored class; they have indeed faithfully delineated the curious living and extinct forms, and the beautiful configurations which have met their view, and have likewise fully recorded the observations they have made upon these interesting objects, but the productions of their pencil have for the most part been enshrined in rare and costly volumes, and they have seldom Spoken but in the dignified language of science. Thus it has happened, that of the many eager and inquiring minds, which love to expatiate in the fields of Nature, a few only have enjoyed the privilege of exploring the inner labyrinths of creation, and of gathering from thence new treasures of wisdom and knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.