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SOME MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS. 



It is singular when you consider the different periods of time it takes to bring creatures to 

 maturity a butterfly or moth perhaps a year, whilst a pig only takes as long, a horse perhaps 

 a couple of years, and an elephant perhaps half a century. 



Did you ever see a flock of midges or gnats dancing jigs in the air during a heavy summer 

 rain ? How do they individually prevent a drop falling on one of them, which if it did would 

 displace it at any rate ? Is their sight so perfect as to enable them to dodge the drop, or 

 does the drop falling displace so much air as to push the insect out of its way? 



In conclusion, I must apologise for the regular jumble of my written thoughts, which have 

 been jotted down as they arose when writing. Manuscript is of little use now that printing is so 

 easily accomplished, as printed matter, whether readable or not, is so much easier comprehended. 

 Many persons, who would not trouble themselves to read manuscript, will read what is in 

 print, and if it is printed for one's own amusement only, it is easily referred to in after years, and 

 perhaps when older one likes to be reminded of what one's thoughts once were, and to see 

 whether they still correspond with one's former ideas on subjects written about. 



May I add that the consideration of Nature's works often leads us to the consideration of 

 Nature's God. Perhaps by way of definition between right and wrong, and good and evil, we 

 might take for illustration a round object, let us say a globe with the poles and the equator, 

 as the world is so suspended in space and we will call the north pole the top and the south pole 

 the bottom. Now so far as religion is concerned we may fancy ourselves each travelling or 



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