20 INTRODUCTORY LETTER. 



the agency of blind chance, the whole must inevitably 

 soon be deranged and go to ruin. Insects, in truth, are 

 a book in which whoever reads under proper impres- 

 sions cannot avoid looking from the effect to the cause, 

 and acknowledging his eternal power and godhead thus 

 wonderfully displayed and irrefragably demonstrated : 

 and whoever beholds these works with the eyes of the 

 body, must be blind indeed if he cannot, and perverse 

 indeed if he will not, with the eye of the soul behold in 

 all his glory the Almighty Workman, and feel disposed, 

 with every power of his nature, to praise and magnify 



" Him first, Him last, Him midst, Him without end." 

 And now having led you to the vestibule of an august 

 temple, which in its inmost sanctuary exhibits enshrined 

 in glory the symbols of the Divine Presence, I should 

 invite you to enter and give a tongue to the Hallelujahs, 

 which every creature in its place, by working his will 

 with all its faculties, pours forth to its great Creator: 

 but I must first endeavour to remove, as I trust I shall 

 effectually, those objections to the study of these inter- 

 esting beings which I alluded to in the outset of this 

 letter, and this shall be the aim of my next address. 



I am, &c. 



