PITCHER-PLANTS. 



favours the idea of a wanton cruelty in the herb ; 

 but how Httlc of the causes and motives of action of 

 created things do we know ? and it must be un- 

 h'mitable arrogance alone that could question the 

 wisdom of the mechanism of Him ' that judgeth 

 rightly ' ; the operations of a simple plant confound 

 and humble us, and, like the handwriting on the wall, 

 though seen by many, can be explained but by Onc.'"^ 



' Knapp, "Journal of a Naturalist," 183S, p. 78. 



