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how forcibly, though silently, the duties of industry, 
perseverance, order, and subordination are ex- 
emplified in the ant and the bee. Yet, if this was 
the only moral or religious precept that could be 
learned from the study of nature, we might be 
tempted to think the application of this science to 
moral truths was but slight; and to spiritual, no 
greater than that of proclaiming the existence and 
the perfection of their Creator. 
(61.) That there is a general analogy between 
the different parts of the animal world, by which one 
object or group represents another, is a truth so 
universally admitted in modern science, that it need 
not be here advocated. It is confirmed, not only by 
the most profound investigations, but is perceived 
and assented to by the vulgar, who, in many instances, 
have given to particular animals such names as ex- 
press an intuitive perception of this principle, with- 
out the power of demonstrating the analogy implied 
by such epithets. Hence the origin of such names 
as night hawk and Tern owl, as given to the goat- 
suckers; chauve souris, or flying mice, applied by 
the French to the bats; water hens, to the Fulice ; 
sea swallow, to the Terns; and swallow butterflies, 
to the genus Podalirius. The provincial or vulgar 
names of well-known animals, in every language, 
furnish innumerable instances of the same per- 
ception of natural analogies. These resemblances, 
therefore, being undeniable, we must come to one 
or other of the following conclusions :— Are we to 
eonsider them as partial and incidental, incapable of 
being reduced to any definite rules, and governed by 
no fixed principles? or, are we to view them as the 
