The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and othe… - Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and other organs to perform its vital functions, created the enormous mass of the planet thirteen hundred times larger than our earth, and launched it in its course round the sun, and the comet, wheeling with a velocity that would carry it round our globe in less than two minutes of time, and yet revolving through so prodigious a space that it takes near six centuries to encircle the sun!

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About Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

The Right Honourable Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC (September 19, 1778 – May 7, 1868) was a British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

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Alternative Names: Henry Peter Brougham Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham And Vaux Henry Brougham, Lord Brougham and Vaux Lord Broham
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