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are small and appear to be beneath our notice. Yet it is just in 

 such apparently insignificant things that the most important 

 resiilts are found. The steam-engine and the electric telegraph, 

 which have altered the -v^'hole condition of civilized man, lay 

 hidden for countless centuries in the bubbling of the pot and 

 the child's amber toy; and so it may be that there lie still 

 hidden in the insect hosts certain properties which may be as 

 useful to man in their way as steam and electricity, and only 

 wait for the hand of the discoverer to tear away the veil which 

 conceals them. 



