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XIV. 

 INSTINCT IN ANIMALS. 



IT is my wish, in the lecture I am about to 

 read to you, to draw your attention to the won- 

 derful arrangements of a superintending Provi- 

 dence or, rather, of an Almighty Creator 

 in the well-being of His creatures, from appa- 

 rently the most insignificant insect to the larger 

 animals. It is a subject well worthy of your 

 consideration, and one which, I trust, will both 

 instruct and interest you. Be quite sure that 

 no religious doctrine is more strongly established 

 than that of a superintending Providence, and 

 that insects are a book, in which whoever reads, 

 under proper impressions, cannot avoid looking 

 from the cause to the effect, and acknowledging 

 God's eternal power and goodness thus wonder- 

 fully displayed; and whoever beholds these 



