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c'cst dc rotourner a terrc et <!e les couper." " Nothing short of 

 reason," says Edwards, "will account for this series of actions." 



See here the confusion of half-thought thoughts, respecting in- 

 stinct I An act, or series of acls, is found too complicated forinstincl; 

 design is loo apparent; instinct therefore is deposed, and reason 

 placed upon the throne ! the commentator sees that instinct could 

 not do the work, and has recourse to one who can. We are then, 

 it seems, to believe that wasps reason when they act reasonably I 



In all nature there are but two existences, mind and matter 

 mind active, matter inert; whenever matter is moved, it is moved 

 by mind, as here, (" mens agitat modern/") and where actions are 

 loo complicated, design too profound to be imputed to creatures to 

 whom we must deny mind, where else can we look for a solution 

 of our difficulty than to the perfectly intelligent Creator ? The very 

 word instinct is not a happy one, it is equally unsuitable to express 

 those actions of animals, to which they are impelled by some ex- 

 terior necessity, or those in which the mechanism of organs is 

 merely put into activity by their appropriate stimuli. 



The Cassida?, whose name sufficiently explains their shape and 

 general appearance, (cassis, a helmet,) are frequently of gaudy and 

 beautiful colours, and so aware, it seems, of their charms, (vide the 

 nonsensical entomologists passim,) that they smear themselves with 

 dung, in order to look hideous, and so think to escape the cruel 

 good taste of a bird of prey ! Without having read Juvenal, they 

 have fully reflected, it appears, on the dangers of beauty, and have 

 adopted, without consulting Rabelais, the very expedient employed 

 by that celebrated person " Jo m'envelopc en ordure pour rendre 

 nia personne inviolable." 



LAMP*' BIS. 



The female glow-worm uses the voluntary power which this 

 insect so curiously exercises over its light, to forward the propen- 

 sities of sex; she is said not only to attract the male by the light 



