The Serignan Jubilee 



we believe in their evolution, we cannot re- 

 frain from proclaiming the necessity of a 

 sovereign Mind, the creator and instigator 

 of order and harmony, and we are quite natu- 

 rally led to repeat, to the glory of God the 

 Creator, the beautiful saying of Saint Au- 

 gustine : ^' Fecit in ccelis angelos et in terris 

 vermiculos, nee major in illis nee minor in 

 istis" 



Now this venerable nonagenarian whom 

 naturalists, poets, and philosophers are so 

 justly about to honour in Serignan, because 

 his brow is radiant with the purest rays of 

 science, poetry, and philosophy: this ento- 

 mologist of real genius, he whom Edmond 

 Perrier ranks among " the princes of natural 

 history," he whom Victor Hugo called " the 

 insects' Homer," he whom Darwin pro- 

 claimed " an Incomparable observer" : who Is 

 there in Aveyron, knowing that he was born 

 beneath our skies and that he has dwelt upon 

 our soil, but will rejoice to feel that he be- 

 longs to us by his birth and the whole of his 

 youth ? 



very definitely accepts the evolution of species; but for 

 him, as for Fabre, the activity of the animal kingdom, 

 like that of the world in general, is inconceivable apart 

 from a sovereign mind which has foreseen all things 

 and provided for all things. 



