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and while nature is daily opening the treasures 

 of her hidden marvels, we ought to learn that 

 revelation can unfold greater marvels still, to 

 rebuke our trust in feeble sense, and quicken 

 our faith. It is hoped that the remarks in 

 this chapter on the fungi and insects that may 

 be regarded as the congeners of those it was 

 the chief object to describe, will give /in in- 

 creased interest to the details before given. 

 They may tend also to the good of the agri- 

 cultural reader, by God's blessing, in more 

 ways than in pointing out certain mundane 

 evils and their remedies. It is desired that they 

 may beget in his mind many considerations to 

 which, perchance, he may heretofore have been 

 a stranger. Lessons of piety are not only 

 written in the gospel, but those lessons we 

 find there, are enforced by a right knowledge 

 of nature. The natural and moral perfections 

 of God are in perfect unison ; and we may 

 be certain, that as science advances in Christian 

 lands, its discoveries will help to close the 

 lips of the sceptic, and the true light bright- 

 ening at the same time, " wisdom and know- 

 ledge" will indeed become both the " stability 

 of our times, and the strength of our salva- 

 tion." 



