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Society will prove not to have been founded in vain. As to 

 the influence of Entomology, when rationally pursued, over 

 the mind and heart, none but ' the fool ' who has said what 

 * none but a fool could have said,' can deny its power. If 

 the artificial spider in which ' a thousand movements scarce 

 one purpose gain,' excite our admiration at the talent that 

 could devise, and the delicate hand that could execute the 

 mechanism by which it describes its few and circumscribed 

 motions, what should we think of that Artificer who, in 

 the ten millionth part of its bulk, can establish organs of 

 motion and vitality incalculably more perfect, incalculably- 

 more delicate ? The mere collector, who uses his eyes to any- 

 tolerable purpose, can hardly miss the inference ; but the 

 scientific entomologist, who studies internal sti'ucture no less 

 than external form, must be dead indeed to feeling if these 

 wonders of the little world do not warm his heart to the 

 full glow of adoration, and lead him to exclaim, in words 

 like those applied by the poet to inconceivably mightier 

 masses indeed, but not, therefore, mightier evidences of in- 

 finite wisdom and power, 



' These are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! 

 Ahnighty ! . . . .' 



POSTSCRIPT. 



It was not till some time after the foregoing Introduction was 

 written, that the ninth Number of the Entomological Maga- 

 zine came into our hands. We trust our readers will believe, 

 from their general tenor, that no unkindly spirit dictated one 

 line of the preceding pages ; and we preface our further ob- 

 servations, unwillingly extorted by the work just alluded to, 

 by the declaration, that no such feelings actuate us even now. 

 We do feel, however, that we should be liable to the imputa- 

 tion of an abandonment of our duty, if we were to suffier 

 some remarks and unfounded assertions contained in the 



