572 INVESTIGATION OF INSECTS. 



ment in a wondrous and complex system, the WISDOM, 

 POWER and GOODNESS of their and our CREATOR have 

 every where been marvellously conspicuous, and calcu- 

 lated to awaken in us every devotional feeling. If, in- 

 deed, we admire and study these little creatures, or any 

 other department of natur"e, without reference to their 

 CREATOR, and collect and love them merely for them- 

 selves, we shall be in some sense idolaters, and, like the 

 ancient world, put the works of GOD in his place. But 

 if, while we admire them and store them up and study 

 them, we see in them his glory reflected, and in the 

 creature love the CREATOR, the study of them, in con- 

 junction with that of the written Word, will be highly 

 beneficial to us, and at the same time that it ministers 

 to our temporal enjoyment will promote our eternal in- 

 terests. 



Taking this view, I cannot better close our correspon- 

 dence on the subject that has so long occupied us, than 

 in the pious words of one of our most admired poets: 



" Happy if full of days but happier far, 

 If, ere we yet discern life's evening star, 

 Sick of the service of a world that feeds 

 Its patient drudges with dry chaff and weeds, 

 We can escape from custom's idiot sway, 

 To serve the Sovereign we were born t' obey. 

 Then sweet to muse upon his skill display 'd 

 (Infinite skill) in all that he has made ! 

 To trace, in Nature's most minute design, 

 The signature and stamp of pow'r divine, 

 Contrivance intricate, express'd with ease, 

 Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, 

 The shapely limb and lubricated joint, 

 Within the small dimensions of a point, 

 Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, 

 His mighty work, who speaks and it is clone, 



