FAMILI/E. {Jpis. **. c. 2. «.) j^^ 



without making a single mistake or a single false 

 stroke ? And yet this is what these little animals 

 invariably do, and thus teach us how much more 

 wonderful and certain instinct is, than all the 

 efforts of our boasted reason, which after many 

 painful processes interrupted by numerous errors 

 and failures, and by a long train of deductions, 

 cannot arrive at that expertness and certainty, 

 which these creatures manifest spontaneously, 

 working at all times with unerring precision. 

 What is this instinct but the teaching of the 

 Almighty, the manifestation of his eternal 

 WISDOM infinitely diversified (^), sustaining, di- 

 recting, impelling all things, and making all things 

 work together for the good of the whole ? Which, 

 like its great emblem and instrument the light, acts 

 every where and upon all, and while it guides the 

 planets in their courses, directs the minutest ani- 

 pialcule to do those things that are necessary to 

 its preservation and the continuation of its kind. 

 *^ Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom 

 and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are 

 his judgments and his ways past finding out ! Of 

 him and through him, and to him are all things : 

 to whom be glory for ever. Amen (u)." 



* *. c. 2. 0. (x) 

 H. F. A. Corpus oblongum, villosum, saepius 

 fiavo variegatum ; Capite trunco paulo angustiori, 



(/) H ToXuffomXoj (7o(J>»«. Ephes. iii. 10. {zi) Rom, xi, 33, 35, 

 (r) Tab, Q, **. c. 2. ^. Apis, Fab. 



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