" If we attend to the history and manners of Insects, they will furnish us with many useful 

 lessons in ethics, and from them we may learn to improve ourselves in various virtues. We 

 have, indeed, the inspired authority of the wisest of mankind for studying them in this view, 

 since he himself wrote a treatise upon them, and sends his sluggard to one for a lesson in 

 wisdom. And if we value diligence and indefatigable industry; judgment, prudence, and 

 foresight; economy and frugality; if we look upon modesty and diffidence as female orna- 

 ments; if we revere parental affection ; of all these, and many more virtues, insects, in their 

 various instincts, exhibit several striking examples." Kirby & Spence. 



