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ADAPTATION TO CIRCUMSTANCES. 



cocoon. Should this be so, it would furnish an in- 

 teresting instance of that adaptation to circumstances 

 which " man, proud man," is apt to regard as the 

 concomitant and characteristic of reason alone, and 

 would show that in the deviations of instinct, no 

 lesr than in its ordinary operations, we may trace an 

 Unseen Hand. 



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