Iff, 



Let us also roimik to what dearee the relations 

 which the fly or butterfly maintains viith the beings that 

 surround UtcJTi, arc multiplied by their metamorphosis. 

 Let us fix our attention on the cone of the siik-vvorin ; 

 and admire what a uwiiher of hands and njachir.es this 

 little ball sets to woik. What prodigious riches should. 

 ve have been deprived of, had the butterfly of the 

 s;lk-\\orm been originally produced in that form ! 



Insects that undergo transit rnustions, have not ye 

 afforded us any species that multiplies by slips and- 

 shoots. This will not surprise us, when \ve reiiect on 

 the great composition of the bodies of these insects* 

 But let us not be too hasty in our judgment, nor con- 

 clude that the properly of multiplying by slips and 

 shoots is incompatible with metamorphoses. Nature is 

 too little known to us, to give us a right to form such 

 conclusions. Vine-frettersand polypuses have furnished 

 us with good preservatives against too general con- 

 clusions , 



