XIV PREFACE. 



being contradicted, are triumphantly confirmed 

 by his Works. 



"To see all things in God" has been accounted 

 one of the peculiar privileges of a future state ; 

 and in this present life, "to see God in all things," 

 in the mirror of the creation to behold and adore 

 the reflected glory of the Creator, is no mean at- 

 tainment; and it possesses this advantage, that 

 thus we sanctify our pursuits, and, instead of 

 loving the creatures for themselves, are led by 

 the survey of them and their instincts to the love 

 of Him who made and endowed them. 



Of their performance of the first part of their 

 plan, in which there is the least room for origi- 

 nality, it is only necessary for the authors to say 

 that they have done their best to make it as com- 

 prehensive, as interesting, and as useful as pos- 

 sible : but it is requisite to enter somewhat more 

 fully into what has been attempted in the anato- 

 mical, physiological, and technical parts of the 

 work. 



As far as respects the general physiology and 

 internal anatomy of insects, they have done little 

 more than bring together and combine the obser- 

 vations of the naturalists who have attended to 

 these branches of the science : but the external 

 anatomy they have examined for themselves 

 through the whole class, and, they trust, not 



