SYMBOLIC ANALOGIES. 



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The same applies to those among us of gentler frame, the 

 lambs and doves amidst the wolves and hawks of human 

 society, which are in like manner aptly symbolized by insect 

 tribes of gentle habits (especially the horned and vegetable- 

 feeding beetles), which have been considered to represent the 

 grazing quadrupeds. 



Others of our qualities our industry, our prudence, our 

 fickleness, our temerity are exhibited also in the tiny indi- 

 vidualities and miniature institutions of insects and insect 

 societies, none of the larger animals, solitary or gregarious, 

 reflecting us in these respects so faithfully as the bee, the ant, 

 the butterfly, and self-destructive moth. 



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