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in their antennae or horns, to which it has been thought 

 by some naturalists that other creatures have nothing 

 similar; that it can scarcely be supposed that this 

 nature of animals could have been produced by the 

 same kind of living filament as the red-blooded classes 

 above mentioned. And yet the changes which many of 

 them undergo in their early state to that of their 

 maturity, are as different as one animal can be from 

 another. As those of the gnat, which passes his early 

 state in water, and then stretching out his new wings 

 and expanding his new lungs, rises in the air ; as of 

 the caterpillar and bee-nymph, which feed on vegetable 

 leaves or farina, and at length bursting from their self- 

 formed graves, become beautiful winged inhabitants of 

 the skies, journeying from flower to flower, and 

 nourished by the ambrosial food of honey. 



" There is still another class of animals which are 

 termed verrnes by Linnaeus, which are without feet or 

 brain, and are hermaphrodites, as worms, leeches, snails, 

 shell-fish, coralline insects, and sponges, which possess 

 the simplest structure of all animals, and appear totally 

 different from those already described. The simplicity 

 of their structure, however, can afford no argument 

 against their having been produced from a single living 

 filament, as above contended. 



" Last of all, the various tribes of vegetables are to be 

 enumerated amongst the inferior orders of animals. Of 

 these the anthers and stigmas have already been shown 

 to possess some organs of sense, to be nourished by 

 honey, and to have the power of generation like insects, 

 and have thence been announced amongst the animal 



