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(Grj/llus, L.) into different genera % but also by no- 

 ticing the different direction of the two anterior from 

 tlie four posterior legs of insects ; for, as he speaks of 

 them as going upon four legs ''5 it is evident that he 

 considered the two anterior as arms. Solomon, the 

 wisest of mankind, made Natural History a peculiar 

 object of study, and left treatises behind him upon its 

 various branches, in which creeping things or insects 

 were not ov^erlooked '^ ; and a wiser than Solomon di- 

 rects our attention to natural productions, when he bids 

 us consider the lilies of the field '^, teaching us that they 

 are more worthy of our notice than the most glorious 

 works of man : he also not obscurely intimates that in- 

 sects are symbolical beings, when he speaks of scor- 

 pions as synonymous with evil spirits % thus giving 

 into our hands a clue for a more profitable mode of 

 studying them, as furnishing moral and spiritual in- 

 struction. 



If to these scriptural authorities we add those of 

 uninspired writers, ancient and modern, the names of 

 many Avorthies, celebrated both for wisdom and virtue, 

 may be produced. Aristotle among the Greeks, and 

 Pliny the elder among the Romans, may be denomi- 

 nated the fathers of Natural History, as well as the 

 greatest philosophers of their day; yet both these made 

 insects a principal object of their attention : and in 

 more recent times, if we look abroad, what names 

 greater than those of Redi, Malpighi, Vailisnieri, 

 Swammerdam, Leeuwenhoek, Reaumur, Linne, De 



' Lpvit. xi. 21,22. Lichtenstein in Linn. Trans, iv. 51, 52. 

 " Levit. xi. 20. conf. Bochart. Hierozoic. ii. 1.4. c.9. 497-8. 

 ' 1 Kings iv. 33. " Luke xii. 27. '^ Ibid. x. 19, 20. 



