198 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF INSECTS. 



tempt any general description, especially as they are 

 very imperfectly known. 



We have now entered, as far as our limited space 

 will admit, into the history of the external and internal 

 organisation of insects, a department of natural history 

 fraught with interesting subjects of research, and ex- 

 hibiting, in so conspicuous a manner that it can scarcely 

 fail to strike the most insensible, the GOODNESS and 

 POWER of that adorable INTELLIGENCE which has pro- 

 vided for the wellbeing of the lowliest of his creatures, 

 by a mechanism and a vital system even more com- 

 plicated than among the higher animals, and equally 

 deserving of our admiration. What we have further 

 to add illustrative of their manners, instincts, geogra- 

 phical distribution, &c. will be given in the systematic 

 exposition of the different orders, a branch of the sub- 

 ject which occupies the remainder of the volume. 



