380 STRUCTURE OF INSECTS. 



which is given them to wanton in the beams of the 

 sun. Taking them, diversified as they are among many 

 genera and species, they form, even in one corner of 

 the smallest province of nature's kingdom, ample and 

 delightful study for the most active mind, through the 

 most prolonged life. 



We are apt, because we cannot move from one part 

 to another without labour, to associate interest with 

 magnitude, measure power with a line, and reckon 

 wisdom by the tables of chronology ; but when the 

 work is His, " with whom a thousand years are as one 

 day, and one day as a thousand years," we find also 

 that space is not an element of the wonderful in His 

 works ; or, time of the wisdom with which they have 

 been made. 



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