Teaching of a Straw

It is said of the great Galileo—who had been accused of infidelity because he asserted that the earth went ;round the sun, in apparent contradiction to the language of Scripture — that, when questioned by the Roman Inquisition as to his belief in the Supreme Being, he pointed to a straw lying on the floor of his dungeon, saying to his accusers that, from the structure of that trifling object, he would infer with certainty the existence of an intelligent Creator. And this is the welcome conclusion to which an attentive examination of the grass of the field inevitably leads.—Macmillan