PITCHER-PLANTS. 



favours the idea of a wanton cruelty in the herb; 

 but how little of the causes and motives of action of 

 created things do we know ? and it must be un- 

 limitable arrogance alone that could question the 

 wisdom of the mechanism of Him 'that judgeth 

 rightly ' ; the operations of a simple plant confound 

 and humble us, and, like the handwriting on the wall, 

 though seen by many, can be explained but by One." 1 



1 Knapp, "Journal of a Naturalist," 1838, p. 78. 



