The Life of Jean Henri Fabre 



have recounted to men the glory of Thy works, in 

 so far as my mind has been able to comprehend 

 their infinite majesty. . . . Praise the Creator, O 

 my soul! It is by Him and in Him that all exists, 

 the material world as well as the spiritual world, all 

 that we know and all that we do not know as yet, 

 for there remains much for us to do that we leave 

 unfinished. . . . 



Uniting the point of view of exegesis with 

 that of natural science, one of the greatest 

 and broadest minds of antiquity, Origen, has 

 written these noble words : 



The providential action of God manifests itself 

 in the minute corpuscles of the animals as well as 

 in the superior beings; it directs with the same fore- 

 sight the step of an ant and the courses of the sun 

 and the moon. It is the same in the supernatural 

 domain. The Holy Spirit which has inspired our 

 sacred Scriptures has penetrated them with its in- 

 spiration to the last letter: Divina sapientia omnem 

 Scripturam divitus datam vel adunam usque lit- 

 terulam attigit. . . .* 



The reader will doubtless pardon a pro- 

 fessor of exegesis, whose admiration for the 

 prince of entomologists has made him his 

 biographer, for terminating this analysis of 



1 Quoted from Mgr. Mignot, Lettres sur les Etudes ec- 

 clesiast'iques, p. 248. 



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