44 Who painted the Flowers ? 



In view of all this, is it scientific to flatter ourselves 

 that we have probed the whole mystery to the bottom, 

 and to lay down that to insects alone do we owe the 

 beauty of our gardens and the sweetness of our fields ? 



Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, says the 

 Roman poet, but it is no part of true happiness, nor 

 of true science, to boast of knowledge which we do not 

 possess and to become so enamoured of theories as to 

 lose the power of rightly estimating facts. 



