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do with that amazing faculty exhibited in the higher ani- 

 mals in such uncial characters that all who run may read ! 

 whether, you will tell me, we can, or cannot detect, organs, 

 in these minute forms of being, which are so appreciable in 

 the higher ones, it will remain certain, that even insects do 

 often exhibit the same marvels, which under the name of 

 instinctive, we enlarge upon in the dog or the elephant ?" 

 "Thou wondrous Faculty," (let us try our hand at an 

 apostrophe), " that art far less fallible than that Reason of 

 which we are so unreasonably vain, what a Giaour must 

 he be that hesitates to recognise thee as the sufficient and 

 inscrutable guide of the microscopic myriads that go forth 

 under no other auspices, and fulfil their destiny under no 

 other inspirations ? Is it not thou that teachest the vora- 

 cious rat, by some mysterious intimation, to anticipate the 

 moment when the centre of gravity which gave security 

 to the walls he haunted, and to himself, is about to be 

 lost, and makest him scan, like a surveyor, the suffi- 

 ciency of beam and rafter ? Led by whom (and never 

 since creation dawned, misled) the swalloiv continues to 

 depart, almost to a fixed day in the calendar, the same for 

 the same place, since Aristotle, in quoting that primaeval 

 proverb that " one swalloiv does not make a summer" at- 

 tested also that even the bright autumns on the banks of 

 the Peneus had no charms to detain the migrative bird ? * 

 Prompted by thee, the thirst-stricken camel is seen to 

 mend his flagging pace, and rejoice his weary master by 



* "Who taught the nations of the field and wood 

 To shun their poison, and to choose their food ? 

 Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand, 

 Build on the waves, or arch beneath the sand, 

 Who bid the Stork, Columbus-like, explore 

 Heavens not his own, and worlds not known before 

 Who calls the councils, slates the certain day ? 

 Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ?" 



POPK. 



