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tative, have inspired observers with some amount of veneration 

 for them. People are often deceived by appearances, and nothing 

 leads very well disposed persons astray so much as the belief 

 that certain actions represent goodness of disposition. Persons 



Ei^G CAPSULES OF Alaiitis rdigiosa. 

 A capsule attached to a twig and a section of a capsule. 



who want to deceive others have only to pretend to be very 

 sanctified, and to pray in the corners of the streets, and act the 

 hypocrite persistently. Success will attend them in an exact 

 relation to their endeavours to deceive. All this holds good 

 for insects, and there is no more respectable and saintly-looking 

 preacher than the Mantis rdigiosa, or the praying Mantis. Any 



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