394l NATURAL ARRANGEMENT OF INSECTS. 



agents, endowed, to the extent and variety of their 

 organisation, with perceptions fitted for its fullest en- 

 joyment; and these, so governed by recondite influences 

 that control them, that, in seeking and effecting their 

 own weal, they work concurrently for the common weal 

 of all. The student of this world of wonders can 

 patiently endure the contumely of those, who, busied in 

 tlie noisy mart of social life, sneer with contempt upon 

 his pursuits ; for he knows full well, that a clay will 

 come, when these traffickers in human flesh and human 

 misery, who accumulate wealth distilled from human 

 blood, for no end but accumulation and ostentation, 

 shall be scourged from God's living Temple ; and that 

 the exalted shall be humbled, and the humble exalted. 



(358.) We cannot better conclude the present work, 

 and the series to which it forms the sequel, than in the 

 words of an eminent advocate of the representative sys- 

 tem. The precursory suffrage of the great Bacon shall 

 terminate our labours : he says *, " Was not the Persian 

 magic a reduction or correspondence of the principles 

 and architectures of Nature to the rules and policy of 

 governments ? Is not the precept of a musician, to fall 

 from a discord or harsh accord upon a concord or sweet 

 accord, alike true in affection? Is not the trope of 

 music, to avoid or slide from the close or cadence, 

 common with the trope of rhetoric, of deceiving expect- 

 ation. Is not the delight of the quavering upon a stop 

 in music, the same with the playing of light upon the 

 water .'' 



' Splendet tremulo sub lumine pontus.' 



Are not the organs of the senses of one kind with the 

 organs of reflection, — the eye with a glass, the ear with a 

 cave, or straight, determined, and bounded ? Neither 



ARE THESE ONLY SIMILITUDES, AS MEN OF NARROW OB- 

 SERVATION MAY CONCEIVE THEM TO BE, BUT THE SAME 

 FOOTSTEPS OF NaTURE, TREADING OR PRINTING UPON 



SEVERAL SUBJECTS OR MATTERS." V{327 358.) W 



E. Sh.] 



* Advancement of Learning, p. 151. ed. 1825. 



