untypified

Updated: July 20, 2025

Now the lenses of the microscope bring an inverted universe to light. Men can look into a drop and discover an ocean crowded with millions of living creatures, monsters untypified in the visible world, playing about as in a great deep. Once a Roman emperor prized a mysterious jewel because it brought the gladiators contending in the arena closer to the imperial canopy.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862