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THE REASON WHY : 



NO MORE THE PATHS OF MISTY DOUBT I TROD I 

 MY REASON SAW, MY SOUL CONFESSED, A GOD I 



apparent : if musquitoes and locusts prolific as they are, were 

 appointed to live from a quarter to half a century, in spite of all 

 existing natural checks, they would render every other form of 

 existence impossible. If lions and tigers, living for. half a century, 

 and possessed of enormous powers, were to multipy as rapidly as 

 insects, they would overrun creation, unless, indeed, they 

 destroyed each other. 



1157. TABLE OF THE LIFE PERIODS OF VARIOUS ANIMALS. 



