

the amount, #f happiness given to each ; and 

 when we can thus, in briefly tracing the career 

 and destiny of so small and humble a living thing 

 as the silk-worm, discover a continued design of 

 providing for all its wants, and of enabling it to 

 overcome all its difficulties, how much ought we 

 to admire the goodness that enables us, while 

 we pass over the imposing evidences oftamplitude, 

 magnificence and harmony of design that per- 

 vade the whole to separate a single atorn.'of '. 

 creation, and in the careful study of its <variou3 

 actions and changes during life, and the naeans 

 by which they are performed, to find the samd^^ 

 infallible proofs of the power, wisdom and good- 

 ness of God ! 



