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USES OF INSECTS. 



:i Let no presuming impious railer tax 

 Creative wisdom, as if ought was form'd 

 111 vain, or not for admirable ends." 



LEIGH HUNT tells us, in his Indicator, that an Italian Jesuit, 

 Giulio Cordara, has written a Poem upon Insects, which he 

 begins by insisting that "those troublesome and abominable 

 little animals " were created only for our annoyance, and that 

 they were certainly not inhabitants of Paradise. Now we 

 scarcely know what to think of the good Father's notion, except 

 that it was hatched, probably, under a swarm of Mosquitos, or 

 under dread of Scorpion or Tarantula. 'Tis certain that the 



