186 HINTS ON THE ANCESTRY OF INSECTS. 



and reverence for Deity, if with minds made to adore, we also 

 essay to trace the movements of His hand in the origin of the 

 forms of life. 



Some writers of the evolution school are strenuous in the 

 belief that the evolution hypothesis overthrows the idea of 

 archetyges, and plans of structure. But a true genealogy of ani- 

 mals and plants represents a natural system, and the types of 

 animals, be they four, as Cuvier taught, or five, or more, are 

 recognized by naturalists through tJie study of dry, hard, ana- 

 tomical facts. Accepting, then, the type of articulates as 

 founded in nature from the similar modes of development and 

 points of structure perceived between the worms and the Crus- 

 tacea on the one hand, and the worms and insects on the other, 

 have we not a strong genetic bond uniting these three great 

 groups into one grand subkingdom, and can we not in imagina- 

 tion perceive the successive steps by which the Creator, acting 

 throngli the laws of evolution, has built up the great articulate 

 division of the animal kiugdom? 



