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adhesiveness. We must therefore seek for some other 

 agent. . . . No feature in its humble economy is 

 thoroughly understood. Physiology, with a view to 

 Darwinism, is now the fashionable pursuit, and will, 

 perhaps, last long enough to allow students to discover 

 that, after all, they are running in the wrong direction." * 

 These interesting words have come to me while you and I 

 Lave been contemplating what is called this little crea- 

 ture's tongue, but which is really its palate. 



What would my friend say to the story of the limpet, 

 who declared he would only believe just what he could 

 understand ? 



What will my devout brother or sister say to the 

 Remark of the eloquent Swiss preacher, who told his 

 hearers to "cleave to Jesus as the limpet cleaves to the 

 rock " ? And what a fine saying is that of Dr. George 

 MacDonald's: "Too much light, too many words, too 



much revelation, blinds 

 or stupefies " ! Yes, it is 

 proverbially but strictly 

 true, a man may be 

 blinded by excess of light. 

 Here is the palate of 

 a winkle, and here a 

 whelk, and here are others 

 of slugs and snails, which 

 very much resemble those 

 of the limpet. Our very 

 best guide to these re- 

 * markable " tongues " will 



Palate of sea-Inail (Troc^a). be Dr ' Carpenter, who 



tells us that " we should 

 be altogether wrong in conceiving of them as having any 

 * Extracted from an article in the Standard, April 12, 1890. 



