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cerning those plants and mosses, the little 

 which has yet transpired with regard to the 

 evening primrose and its nightly visitors, 

 we should, no doubt, discover that the phos- 

 phorescent light in each, is kindled with the 

 same beneficent design ; that it shines forth 

 to answer the purpose of a lamp on the 

 lone heath or in the cavern, to guide the 

 steps of fainting insects to their nightly 

 food. I have looked on those insects, either 

 winged or footed, when, in the early morn- 

 ing, they have been fomid asleep among the 

 grass and shrubs ; and while looking at them 

 I have thought, though man cares not for 

 such feeble creatures, and might crush them 

 as the moth, their Maker cares for them. 

 He has made them perfect in all their parts, 

 it may be to teach us, that He who thus 

 provides for the wandering night ephemera, 

 giving to them a fountain and a light when 



