348 Rev. F. D. Morice and J, H. Durrant oti the 



in his mind than a simple revision of his past work. The 

 alternative title is as follows — 



ENTOMOLOGISCHER VERSUCH 



DIE 



JURINESCHEN 

 GATTUNGEN 



DER 



LINNESCHEN HYMENOPTERN 



NACH DEM 



FABRIZIUSSCHEN SYSTEM 

 ZU PRUFEN: etc. 



This is followed by a sort of Essay, written exactly in 

 the style of the Erlangen Articles, and evidently a 

 composition of the same writer. Like those Articles it 

 maintains the thesis that the Jurinean Genera, far from 

 upsetting the Fabrician system, really support it. Jurine's 

 characters are excellent and practically most useful. 

 They are easy to see and to distinguish. They indicate 

 just the same divisions which Fabricius has discovered and 

 Nature estabhshed in the Animal Kingdom. Really and 

 essentially Animals are separated, and ought to be dis- 

 tinguished, by the differences in their mouth-parts, the 

 instrumenta cibaria. This is the high-road to Truth, and 

 Fabricius has shown it to us. But the high-road is long 

 and sometimes rugged and difficult. We may shorten it, 

 and make it easier, if we can, by taking side-paths and 

 short-cuts, provided that we come back ultimately to the 

 high-road, and own (even while we stray from it) that it is 

 the one and only " Natural " method of approaching the 

 Truth. Jurine's Method is such a short-cut. It is not the 

 high-road itself, but it runs parallel with it, leads to the 

 same goal, and is easier to follow. Therefore Jurine's 

 " method " is lawful, as long as it does not lead us to abandon 

 the Fabrician '' system " ; and that it in fact does not do 

 so. is one of its principal merits. 



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