348 EXTERNAL ANATOMY OF INSECTS. 
repeated and scarcely credible instances, which in every 
rightly constituted mind are calculated to excite, in an 
extraordinary degree, those sensations of reverence and 
love for the Invis1BLE AUTHOR of these wonders, and 
that faith and trust in his Power and Providence, which 
an attentive survey of the works of Creation has a natu- 
ral tendency to produce. And you will not only be 
struck by this circumstance, but equally by the infinite 
variations in the structure that will present themselves to 
your notice; and that not sudden and per saltus, but by 
approaches made in the most gradual manner from one 
form to another. And all along, where the uses of any 
particular organ or part have been ascertained, if you 
consider its structure with due attention, you will find in 
it the nicest adaptation of means to an end: a circum- 
stance this, which proves most triumphantly, that the 
Power who immediately gave being to all the animal 
forms, was neither a blind unconscious power, resulting 
from a certain order of things, as some philosophists love 
to speak*; nor a formative appetency in the animals 
themselves, produced by their wants, habits, and local 
circumstances, and giving birth, in the lapse of ages, to 
all the animal forms that now people our globe®; but a 
Power altogether distinct from and above nature, and its 
ALMIGHTY AUTHOR‘. 
2 Lamarck Hist. Nat. des Anim. sans Vertébr. i. 311, 214. 
> Ibid. 162. Compare the Systéme des Anim. sans Vertebr. of the 
same author, p. 12—. 
© The doctrine of Epicurus—that the Deity concerns not himself 
with the affairs of the world or its inhabitants, which, as Cicero has 
judiciously observed (De Nat. Deor. 1. 1. ad calcem), while it ac- 
knowledges a God in words, denies him in reality; has furnished 
the original stock upon which most of these bitter fruits of modern 
