204 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, 



"everything that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I 

 " establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, 

 " and thy sons" (etc. vs. 18-22). 



Chapter vii (vs. 1-20, a specific account of the Flood), vs. 21- 

 24: " And a] I flesh died\\iz.\. moved upon the earth, both of fowl, 

 "and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that 

 ; 'creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils 

 " was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And 

 "every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face 

 " of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, 

 " and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the 

 "earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with 

 ' ' him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an 

 " hundred and fifty days." 



We see by these recorded cases that the Divine Being deliber- 

 ately drowned the Human race in the Flood, and drowned the 

 Locusts in the Red Sea, just to get rid of them. It was His way; 

 simple in design and execution, and perfectly effectual. There 

 was not one man left, except Noah and his family; and not one 

 locust. It is probably impossible for any man to show, in more 

 distinct words and language, the unmistakable and deliberate de- 

 termination of the Divine Being to destroy the whole Human 

 race on the earth, except Noah, who was spared for the reasons 

 given in Genesis vi, 9-10. He destroyed all life " which was upon 

 the face of the ground" (vii, 23), probably all life, animal and 

 vegetable, excepting fresh water fishes, and those forms of vege- 

 table life having their proper habitat in fresh water. His reasons 

 for so doing, are also just as clearly and definitely given and re- 

 corded, as if done to justify Himself to His creature, man, in His 

 course of action, as related in the history of the Flood. 



To those who do not believe in God, nor in the Bible, nor the 

 Flood, nor any other miracle, it might be a subject of interesting- 

 contemplation to consider the extraordinary action of the Nor- 

 wegian Lemmings. It appears to me to be unaccountable on 

 agnostic principles, so far as I understand them. There is here 

 no "Survival of the Fittest" to hand down this sea-going suicidal 

 propensity (or impulse, or instinct, or habit, or any other name 

 that may be given to it) from generation to generation; all are 

 destroyed, not one survives. There appears to be a kind oi cul- 

 mination of circumstances leading to the fatal termination of their 



