66 HALF HX3URS WITH INSECTS. [Packakd. 



will he endeavor to train them by the power of kindness 

 than by the force of blows. 



So in the dealings of civilized with savage man ; the legiti- 

 mate results of a proper study of anthropology, or the science 

 of man, while teaching us that there are different grades of 

 intellect and moral sense in tlie different races of man, 

 as in the members of our own families, where each may re- 

 quire a different mode of education though all are e(iually 

 loved by their parents, will lead us to observe the primary 

 law of international behavior — the law of love. Each may 

 require a different mode of treatment, while all must be re- 

 garded as men and brothers. 



Though one race under a favoring heaven and superior 

 mental organization stands superior to another, yet, if many 

 naturalists are right, all have had a common monkey origin ; 

 and the European or American of to-day need not despise 

 his Bushman or Australian brother, who is perhaps but a 

 few removes nearer his simian ancestors than himself. 



So all the animal creation is of a piece ; part and parcel of 

 one grand Divine plan. Some philosophers and theologians 

 even ascribe immortality to the animals, and believe that in 

 the hereafter we shall hear the song of the mosquito, the 

 hum of the bee, and the shrill rolling drum-beat of the ci- 

 cada. 



Insects are related to us in a thousand ways, and some- 

 how, either by themselves or through their products, they are, 

 more than we should at first imagine, constantly in our daily 

 thoughts. Beau Brummel's cravat, which historians tell us 

 absorbed no small proportion of his thoughts in his waking 

 moments, was spun by a silkworm. A spider's web, tradi- 

 tion says, saved King Robert Bruce in his sleep. Thou- 

 sands of peo[)le in the P2ast are dependent for life on locusts 

 and wild honey. Is the potato beetle an unimportant per- 

 sonage in the west ? And in the south are not hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars' worth of cotton annually devoured by 



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